Synonyms for "sifter" (24 found)

Ranked by relevance and common usage.

Closest matches (5)

bolterclarifiercolandercradlecribble

Strong matches (7)

filtergrategratinglixiviatorpercolatorpurifierrefiner

Related words (12)

refineryriddlerockerscreensievesorterstrainerwinnowwinnowing basketwinnowing fanwinnowing machine

Noun(1 words)

sieve

Related word relations

OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.

5 relation types

More general

2 entries

screensieve

derived

1 entries

sugar sifter

derived from

1 entries

sift

is a

1 entries

sieve

related to

4 entries

beaklamellaelamellirostralsift

Translations

18 translations across 11 languages.

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Bulgarian

1 entries

• сито noun (tool for sifting)

Catalan

1 entries

• cernedor noun (tool for sifting)

Finnish

1 entries

• seula noun (tool for sifting)

German

2 entries

• Sieb noun (tool for sifting)
• Sieber noun (one who sifts)

Irish

3 entries

• criathar noun (tool for sifting)
• criathradóir noun (tool for sifting)
• scagaire noun (tool for sifting)

Norwegian Bokmål

1 entries

• sil noun (tool for sifting)

Ottoman Turkish

2 entries

• الكجی noun (one who sifts)
• قلبورجی noun (one who sifts)

Polish

3 entries

• arfa noun (tool for sifting)
• przesiewacz noun (tool for sifting)
• sito noun (tool for sifting)

Spanish

1 entries

• colador noun (tool for sifting)

Turkish

2 entries

• elekçi noun (one who sifts)
• kalburcu noun (one who sifts)

Ukrainian

1 entries

• си́то noun (tool for sifting)

Sample sentences

2 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

Near-synonym: sieve

Source: wiktionary

He was employed as a sifter.

Source: wiktionary

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