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Definition: Strainer |
StrainerNoun1. A filter to retain larger pieces while smaller pieces and liquids pass through. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "strainer" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1854. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Industry | Machine in which the dilute pulp passes through screens leaving behind any fibres insufficiently ground and any knots, lumps, dirt, etc. Source: European Union. (references) |
Environment | A device to remove solid material from a fluid ; equipment to remove dust from air in ventilation or exhaust systems. Source: European Union. (references) |
Food & Agriculture | A metal, wooden or wicker sieve placed under a tap or other outlet to remove suspended solids from wine or must running through it. Source: European Union. (references) |
Industry | A perforated plate through which the material passes to the extruder die. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mechanical Engineering | A coarse filter usually of woven wire construction. This may be in the form of a complete filter or just an element. Source: European Union. (references) |
Personal Care & Hotels | A kitchen utensil used to filter foods or liquids. Source: European Union. (references) |
| A fairly large metal or plastic bowl perforated on the sides and bottom; used for straining hot foods. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: Strainer |
| English words defined with "strainer": colander, Colature, cullender ♦ draw ♦ Hair sieve, Hippocrates' sleeve ♦ loofa, loofah, loufah sponge, luffa ♦ puree ♦ screen, sieve, strain ♦ Tamis ♦ unstrained. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "strainer": ACUPUNCTURIST ♦ bottom equipment, Briggs equalizer ♦ coater, hand, cork coater ♦ fabric-separator operator, floating strainer, FURNACE TENDER ♦ HOT-WORT SETTLER ♦ KETTLE TENDER, Kittle of Fish ♦ LABORER, SYRUP MACHINE ♦ MILKER, MACHINE, milking-machine operator, Misnomers ♦ OIL-BURNER-SERVICER-AND-INSTALLER HELPER ♦ remelt operator, RESIN COATER ♦ Soil the Milk before Using It, STRAINER TENDER, strainer-mill operator, suction basket ♦ tuber operator ♦ well-tube filter. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "strainer": Colander. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Consumer Goods | |
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| "Tea for You" by Christie Ortiz Commentary: "This is a close-up of a tea strainer which makes damn good tea btw." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | It would make you (r)schlinguer in your strainer, or, as the big bugs say, stink in your jaws |
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| "Strainer" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Strainer" is used about 27 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 27 | 66,962 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "strainer": Fish strainer ♦ Gnat strainer ♦ strainer plate ♦ strainer vine ♦ tea strainer ♦ the Mysticete or whalebone whales having no true teeth after birth but with a series of plates of whalebone see Baleen hanging down from the upper jaw on each side thus making a strainer through which they receive the small animals upon which they feed. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "strainer": soup-strainer, tea-strainer. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "strainer"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | sitë (Bolter, grate, separator, sieve, Tammy), kulesë, aparat tendosjeje. (various references) | |
Arabic | منظف (cleaner, detergent, detersive, purifier), مصفاة (colander, filter, refinery). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | цедка (filter, percolator), цедилка (filter), гевгир. (various references) | |
Chinese | 过滤器 (filter, sifter). (various references) | |
Czech | filtr (filter, percolator), cedník (colander, cullender, percolator). (various references) | |
Danish | sugesi, sugekurv (rose, snore piece, suction screen, suction strainer), strammer (straightener device, stretcher, tightening screw, twine tensioner, twisting stick), strainer, støvfilter (air filter, dust arrester, dust filter, filter, screen), snavssamler, sivkurv (screen), sigte (aim, intend), si (screen, screens, syncytium-inducing, trapping sieve), rensesproejtemaskine, knudefang, filterrør (screen), filter (filter), dornholder (mandrel carrier), broendfilter (well screen). (various references) | |
Dutch | vergiet (colander). (various references) | |
Esperanto | traverŝilo (colander), elgutigilo (colander). (various references) | |
Farsi | پالایش کننده , صافی (Gloss, Leach, Purity, Scumble, Serene, Serenity), اب میوه گیر, بغاز (Strait). (various references) | |
Finnish | siivilä (drain, filter, screen). (various references) | |
French | passoire, égouttoir. (various references) | |
German | filter (cleaner, filter, filters), sieb (colander, filter, riddle, screen, sieve, sifter). (various references) | |
Greek | φορέας τρυπανοφόρου άξονα (mandrel carrier), διηθητήρας, διηθητήριο (percolator), τεντωτήρας (straightener device, stretcher, tightening screw, twine tensioner, twisting stick), εντείνων, φίλτρο (charm love, filter, philtre), φίλτρο πηγαδιού (well screen), διάτρητη πλάκα (breaker, breaker plate, strainer plate), φίλτρο σκόνης (dust arrester, dust filter, filter, screen), στραγγιστήριο (colander), πάνινο παρέμβασμα (screen), πώμα εκκενώσεως του θραυστήρα, μηχάνημα επιλογής, σίτα (sieve), σουρωτήρι (colander, tea strainer), σουρώνων, στραγγιστήρι (drainer, drip rack, oil catcher, save all), φίλτρο προστασίας (trapping sieve). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מסנן (filter), מסננת (cullender, filter). (various references) | |
Hungarian | szita (Bolter, haircloth, jig, sieve), szűrő (colander, cullender, filter, screen, sieve, sifter). (various references) | |
Italian | filtro (filter, percolator, philter, philtre, potion). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 瀘過器 (filter), 濾過器 (filter). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ろかき (filter). (various references) | |
Korean | 스트레이너. (various references) | |
Manx | shollane (colander, filter), sheelane (drainer board, percolator, refinery), chionneyder (brace, inflater, nut, tightener). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ainerstray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | filtro (filter, percolator, rejector), coador (colander, cullender, percolator). (various references) | |
Romanian | strecurãtoare (colander, percolator), sitã (Bolter, griddle, riddle, rose, screen, sieve, Tammy), filtru (filter, percolator, philtre), ciur (Bolter, griddle, riddle, screen, sieve, sifter, Tammy). (various references) | |
Russian | сито (cribble, sieve, sifter). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | zatezač, cediljka (colander, cullender, percolator). (various references) | |
Spanish | filtro (filter, philter, philtre), colador (colander, cullender, sieve, sifter). (various references) | |
Swedish | sil (filter, fix, hit, sieve). (various references) | |
Thai | เครื่องกรอง, อุปกรณ์ที่ทำให้ตึง. (various references) | |
Turkish | süzgeç (alembic, colander, cullender, drainer, filter), filtre (filter, filter tip, tip). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | стяжка, фільтр (filter, percolator). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | dụng cụ để kéo căng cái lọc. (various references) | |
Welsh | hidl (sieve). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Medieval Latin | 700-1500 | colatorium. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "strainer": strainers. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "strainer": distrainer, restrainer. (additional references) | |
Words containing "strainer": distrainers, restrainers. (additional references) | |
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"Strainer" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Scharinger, stainder, straine, strander. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "strainer" (pronounced 'Strain"er'): Abaser, Abater, Abider, Abjurer, Abridger, Absconder, Absenter, Absolver, Absorber, Abstainer, Abstracter, Abuser, Acceder, Accepter, Acclaimer, Accorder, Accruer, Accuser, Achiever, Acquirer, Adherer, Adjudger, Adjurer, Adjuster, Admirer, Adopter, Adorer, Adorner, Advertiser, Adviser, Advoyer, Affecter, Affirmer, Afflicter, Affrayer, Affreighter, Affrighter, Affronter, Aflicker, Agreer, Aider, Aimer, Airer, Aliner, Allayer, Alleger, Allower, Allurer, Altogether, Amasser. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: restrain, retrains, terrains, trainers. | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-i-n-r-r-s-t" | |
-1 letter: anestri, antsier, artsier, errants, nastier, ranters, ratines, retains, retinas, retrain, retsina, sierran, stainer, stearin, tarries, tarsier, terrain, trainer. | |
-2 letters: airers, airest, antres, arisen, arrest, arsine, artier, astern, errant, estrin, inerts, insert, instar, inters, irater, niters, nitres, raiser, ranter, rarest, raster, raters, ratine, retain, retina, rinser, santir, satire, sierra, sinter, snarer, starer, sterna. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-i-n-r-r-s-t" | |
+1 letter: arresting, instarred, pretrains, restrains, restraint, retainers, retirants, serrating, serration, strainers, ternaries, terrapins, transpire, veratrins. | |
+2 letters: contraries, distrainer, entrainers, errantries, garnitures, interlards, ironmaster, irredentas, irridentas, narratives, overstrain, overtrains, pretorians, rainforest, rainwaters, registrant, restarting, restrained, restrainer, restraints, retransmit, ringmaster, serrations, tarriances, transcribe, transpired, transpires, traversing, treasuring, tristearin, truantries, veratrines, warranties. | |
+3 letters: aberrations, antitruster, arrestingly, brainteaser, carpentries, catarrhines, denigrators, distrainers, drivetrains, fraternizes, freemartins, garnierites, heartstring, hibernators, integrators, intergrades, intergrafts, interlayers, interparish, interstrain, interstrand, interurbans, ironmasters, itineraries, natriureses, natriuresis, ordinariest, overstrains, partnership, parturients, perorations, praetorians, printmakers, quarterings, rainforests, rearresting, reasserting, reassertion, reassorting, recreations, refractions, registrants, remastering, reparations, reservation, respiration, restoration, restrainers, restraining, retractions, retransmits, ringmasters, ringstraked, springwater, strangering, stranguries, streamliner, terminators, trailerings, transceiver, transcribed, transcriber, transcribes, transferrin, transfigure, transmarine, transmitter, transpierce, travertines, tristearins, tyrannizers, unrestraint. | |
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