Sifter vs. Strainer

Sifternoun

A tool for sifting, especially one for powdered cooking ingredients.

Sifternoun

(rare) One who sifts.

Sifternoun

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.

Sifternoun

One who, or that which, sifts.

Sifternoun

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 lamell of the beak.

Sifternoun

a household sieve (as for flour)

Strainernoun

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.

Strainernoun

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.

Strainernoun

One who strains.

Strainernoun

One who strains.

Strainernoun

That through which any liquid is passed for purification or to separate it from solid matter; anything, as a screen or a cloth, used to strain a liquid; a device of the character of a sieve or of a filter; specifically, an openwork or perforated screen, as for the end of the suction pipe of a pump, to prevent large solid bodies from entering with a liquid.

Strainernoun

a filter to retain larger pieces while smaller pieces and liquids pass through

Strainernoun

a device having holes punched in it or made of crossed wires for separating solid matter from a liquid