sifter
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2.8
- noun
- /ˈsɪftər/
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tamiz
- Stuck in with the strainers of all sizes, she found a flour sifter that fit her hand better than the one she'd become accustomed to.
- flour sifter
- sugar sifter
- triple sifter
I really prefer these sifters to like plastic ones.
- I really prefer these sifters to like plastic ones.
- Foil and a sifter, but those are just tools.
- It comes with a like sponge foam top, which is really weird and you expect there to be some type of a sifter here, but this is just fully loose.
- It has a really nice sifter in here where it feels like everything kind of stays in control in the top, but it's not like a pain to get it out.
- Is it called the filter strainer drainer filter sifter.
Examples
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I'd see her take a breath before leaving our house and crossing next door to our neighbors for a cup of sugar or a sifter of biscuit flour.
Fiction book (1996) -
She spooned it out of the box and into a tiny sifter, shaking the sifter so that the sugar fell like snow on her food.
Fiction book (1990) -
What I need you to do is take that sifter, and then pour about half of that.
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You bring me a decent flour sifter and some real measuring cups, then I might be able to remember the final ingredient.
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Use the sifter to separate the flour from any lumps before baking your cake.
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She carefully poured the sugar into the sifter to aerate it for the recipe.
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The chef recommended using a sifter to achieve light and fluffy pancakes.
Synonyms
18
2.4
A device with small holes that separates solids from liquids
13
1.7
A bowl or cup with small holes that separates solids from liquids
7
9.9
A coarse sieve used to separate stones from sand
A machine or cloth that sifts flour to remove bran
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Etymology
The word sifter comes from the verb sift ('to separate by shaking or passing through holes') plus the agent ending -er, so it literally means 'the thing that sifts'. Think of a sieve, a tool with holes that lets fine flour pass and keeps lumps out, which is why a sifter is used in the kitchen to remove clumps and make dry ingredients light.