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A device through which a liquid is passed for purification, filtering or separation from solid matter; anything (including a screen or a cloth) used to strain a liquid.
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Synonyms: sile
Antonyms: none provided
A perforated screen or openwork (usually at the end of a suction pipe of a pump), used to prevent solid bodies from mixing in a liquid stream or flowline.
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Debris in water that blocks the passage of solid objects.
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One who strains.
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a filter to retain larger pieces while smaller pieces and liquids pass through
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: filter
Narrower terms: colander, cullender, sieve, screen, tea-strainer
From Middle English strener, streynour, strenyour, equivalent to strain + -er.
Across languages
Translations
66 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Arabic:
مِصْفَاة
(miṣfāh)
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Central Bikol:
sernian
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Bulgarian:
цедка
(cedka)
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Catalan:
colador
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Chinese Mandarin:
濾器 /滤器
(lǜqì)
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Chinese Mandarin:
滤器
(lǜqì)
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Chinese Mandarin:
過濾器 /过滤器
(guòlǜqì)
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Chinese Mandarin:
过滤器
(guòlǜqì)
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Chinese Mandarin:
網濾 /网滤
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Chinese Mandarin:
网滤
(wǎnglǜ)
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Chinese Mandarin:
笊籬 /笊篱
(zhàoli)
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Dutch:
filter
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Dutch:
vergiet
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Esperanto:
kribrilo
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Finnish:
siivilä
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French:
filtre
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Georgian:
თუშფალანგი
(tušpalangi)
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German:
Sieb
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German:
Durchschlag
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Greek:
σουρωτήρι
(sourotíri)
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Hindi:
छन्नी
(channī)
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Hungarian:
szűrő
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Hungarian:
szita
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Icelandic:
sigti
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Irish:
síothlán
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Italian:
colino
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Italian:
colatoio
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Japanese:
濾過器
(rokaki)
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Japanese:
ストレーナー
(sutorēnā)
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Latin:
cōlum
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Macedonian:
це́далка
(cédalka)
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Macedonian:
це́дилка
(cédilka)
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Malayalam:
അരിപ്പ
(arippa)
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Māori:
tātari
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Occitan:
filtre
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Occitan:
colador
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Occitan:
mancha
— utensil
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Persian:
ماشوب
(mâšub)
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Plautdietsch:
Säw
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Polish:
sito
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Polish:
cedzak
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Portuguese:
peneira
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Romanian:
strecurătoare
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Russian:
си́то
(síto)
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Russian:
фильтр
(filʹtr)
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Russian:
си́течко
(sítečko)
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Russian:
дуршла́г
(duršlág)
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Scottish Gaelic:
sìoltachan
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Serbo-Croatian:
цедило
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Serbo-Croatian:
cedilo
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Serbo-Croatian:
цједило
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Serbo-Croatian:
cjedilo
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Slovak:
sito
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Slovak:
cedidlo
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Spanish:
colador
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Spanish:
filtro
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Swedish:
sil
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Swedish:
filter
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Swedish:
durkslag
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Swedish:
sikt
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Tagalog:
salaan
— utensil
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Tamil:
வடிகட்டி
(vaṭikaṭṭi)
— utensil
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Turkish:
süzgeç
— utensil
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Ottoman Turkish:
سوزكج
(süzgec)
— utensil
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Ottoman Turkish:
مصفات
(misfât)
— utensil
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Waray-Waray:
saraan
— utensil
