Strainer

//ˈstɹeɪnɚ//

Synonyms for "strainer" (32 found)

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Closest matches (7)

Noun(1 words)

sile

clarifier colander cradle cribble cribriformity cribrosity

Strong matches (9)

filter honeycomb lixiviator mesh net percolator porosity porousness purifier

Related words (16)

refiner refinery riddle rocker screen sieve sievelikeness sifter sile sponge winnow winnowing basket winnowing fan winnowing machine

Noun(2 words)

sieve temse

Related word relations

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6 relation types

More general

1 entries

filter

Synonyms

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sile

derived

7 entries

cocktail strainer fish strainer gnat-strainer soup strainer spider strainer strainer post tea strainer

derived from

1 entries

strain

is a

3 entries

filter kitchen tool non powered device

related to

2 entries

strain strain liquid

Translations

66 translations across 39 languages.

Arabic

1 entries

مِصْفَاة noun (utensil)

Bikol Central

1 entries

sernian noun (utensil)

Bulgarian

1 entries

цедка noun (utensil)

Catalan

1 entries

colador noun (utensil)

Chinese Mandarin

4 entries

滤器 noun (utensil)
濾器 /滤器 noun (utensil)
笊籬 /笊篱 noun (utensil)
網濾 /网滤 noun (utensil)

Dutch

2 entries

filter noun (utensil)
vergiet noun (utensil)

Esperanto

1 entries

kribrilo noun (utensil)

Finnish

1 entries

siivilä noun (utensil)

French

1 entries

filtre noun (utensil)

Georgian

1 entries

თუშფალანგი noun (utensil)

German

2 entries

Durchschlag noun (utensil)
Sieb noun (utensil)

Greek

1 entries

σουρωτήρι noun (utensil)

Hindi

1 entries

छन्नी noun (utensil)

Hungarian

2 entries

szita noun (utensil)
szűrő noun (utensil)

Icelandic

1 entries

sigti noun (utensil)

Irish

1 entries

síothlán noun (utensil)

Italian

2 entries

colatoio noun (utensil)
colino noun (utensil)

Japanese

2 entries

ストレーナー noun (utensil)
濾過器 noun (utensil)

Latin

1 entries

cōlum noun (utensil)

Macedonian

2 entries

це́далка noun (utensil)
це́дилка noun (utensil)

Malayalam

1 entries

അരിപ്പ noun (utensil)

Māori

1 entries

tātari noun (utensil)

Occitan

3 entries

colador noun (utensil)
filtre noun (utensil)
mancha noun (utensil)

Ottoman Turkish

2 entries

سوزكج noun (utensil)
مصفات noun (utensil)

Persian

1 entries

ماشوب noun (utensil)

Plautdietsch

1 entries

Säw noun (utensil)

Polish

2 entries

cedzak noun (utensil)
sito noun (utensil)

Portuguese

1 entries

peneira noun (utensil)

Romanian

1 entries

strecurătoare noun (utensil)

Russian

4 entries

дуршла́г noun (utensil)
си́течко noun (utensil)
си́то noun (utensil)
фильтр noun (utensil)

Scottish Gaelic

1 entries

sìoltachan noun (utensil)

Serbo-Croatian

4 entries

cedilo noun (utensil)
cjedilo noun (utensil)
цедило noun (utensil)
цједило noun (utensil)

Slovak

2 entries

cedidlo noun (utensil)
sito noun (utensil)

Spanish

2 entries

colador noun (utensil)
filtro noun (utensil)

Swedish

4 entries

durkslag noun (utensil)
filter noun (utensil)
sikt noun (utensil)
sil noun (utensil)

Tagalog

1 entries

salaan noun (utensil)

Tamil

1 entries

வடிகட்டி noun (utensil)

Turkish

1 entries

süzgeç noun (utensil)

Waray-Waray

1 entries

saraan noun (utensil)

Sample sentences

12 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

Put the vegetables in the strainer.

Source: tatoeba (2267685)

Use a strainer to drain the pasta.

Source: tatoeba (4671713)

I don't want my bathtub to clog, so I need to buy a strainer.

Source: tatoeba (9058088)

Ziri asked Rima if he could borrow her strainer.

Source: tatoeba (10236810)

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