noun
Meaning 1
A tool for sifting, especially one for powdered cooking ingredients.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- Near-synonym: sieve
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: sieve
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
sifter
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Sound
Pronunciation
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General-American: /ˈsɪftɚ/
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rhymes with -ɪftə(ɹ)
noun
Meaning 2
One who sifts.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: rare
Examples
- He was employed as a sifter.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
Any lamellirostral bird, as a duck or goose, so called because it sifts or strains its food from the water and mud by means of the lamellae of the beak.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 4
a household sieve (as for flour)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: sieve, screen
History
Etymology
From sift + -er.
Across languages
Translations
19 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: сито (sito) — tool for sifting
- Catalan: cernedor — tool for sifting
- Finnish: seula — tool for sifting
- German: Sieb — tool for sifting
- Irish: criathar — tool for sifting
- Irish: criathradóir — tool for sifting
- Irish: scagaire — tool for sifting
- Norwegian Bokmål: sil — tool for sifting
- Polish: sito — tool for sifting
- Polish: arfa — tool for sifting
- Polish: przesiewacz — tool for sifting
- Spanish: colador — tool for sifting
- Ukrainian: си́то (sýto) — tool for sifting
- Unami: pawënikàn — tool for sifting
- German: Sieber — one who sifts
- Turkish: kalburcu — one who sifts
- Turkish: elekçi — one who sifts
- Ottoman Turkish: قلبورجی (kalburcu) — one who sifts
- Ottoman Turkish: الكجی (elekci) — one who sifts