What's the difference between drainer and strainer?

Drainer


Definition:

  • (n.) One who, or that which, drains.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This arterio-venous malformation consisted with feeders, nidus and drainers.
  • (2) 1); the feeding arteries of which were middle meningeal arteries, occipital artery, and tentorial artery, etc; the drainers were transverse and sigmoid sinuses.
  • (3) The main feeder was a MCA distal branch and the drainer joined Labbe's vein.
  • (4) The voluminous petrosal vein and the dilated cortical veins were identified as drainers and, the portion of the latter appeared as "varix" embedded in the pons, which was clearly delineated by MRI.
  • (5) The cortical vein which ran on the surface of the frontal base was its drainer via a small nidus.
  • (6) In the majority of these cases, symptoms progressed slowly from the lower sacral level up to a level close to the end of the drainer.
  • (7) Apart from factors precluding the study in several patients (life support systems, pacemakers, claustrophobia, neurovascular clips), disadvantages of MR imaging include motion artifacts (prevalent in thoracolumbar area), poor capability of typing and grading of tumors, potential of false-positive results, poor detection of calcification, and poor delineation of feeders and drainers of AVM.
  • (8) The final drainer was the superior ophthalmic vein on the left.
  • (9) Feeder was clipped and the drainers were partially removed.
  • (10) After dura was incised, both the nidus and drainer were coagulated intradurally.
  • (11) This arteriovenous malformation consisted of feeders, the nidus, and drainers.
  • (12) It can not pass into drainer because of its viscosity.
  • (13) The drainers poured into the superior sagittal sinus.
  • (14) The arachnoid hemorrhage was thought to be caused by rupture of this drainer.

Strainer


Definition:

  • (n.) One who strains.
  • (n.) 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.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The tissue was sieved through a large strainer (2 mm2) to produce a homogeneous suspension.
  • (2) The Brooklyn Bridge Park, High Line and Low Line parks are healthy gauges of this, along with project +POOL , a “plus” shaped pool which will act like a giant strainer dropped into the Hudson river.
  • (3) In chaps, a battered Stetson and with a soup-strainer moustache, Tex immediately provided – to fans of old western movies like us – a far more thrilling encounter than anything Sin City could offer.
  • (4) The authors describe a method of plasty of proximal parts of the femoral diaphysis with a nonfree vascularized autotransplant from the iliac crest on the muscular-vascular connections including the strainer of the wide fascia, portion of the musculus gluteus medius and the feeding ascending branch of the lateral artery surrounding the femoral bone with the accompanying veins.
  • (5) The wash procedure consisted of a jet of tap water over the specimen contained in a tea strainer.
  • (6) Alternatively, you can chop all the ingredients and pop them into a powerful blender with 120ml of water, then pass the mixture through a fine-mesh strainer into a glass.
  • (7) Application of temephos in unsafe water sources for destroying cyclops, the intermediate hosts of guineaworm, and distribution of fine mesh nylon strainers for promoting prophylaxis against guineaworm are accepted methods of guineaworm control in different endemic countries.
  • (8) 4 Pour the liquor through a strainer, retaining both liquid and solids.
  • (9) Occasionally, he’d stray into being a bee, sporting a couple of tea strainers over his eyes.
  • (10) This procedure utilized a tea strainer, plastic cup and conical centrifuge tube, all of which could be made available at a minimally equipped laboratory.
  • (11) No worries if you don't have a juicer: a blender and a strainer do the trick.
  • (12) Alternatively, you can chop all the ingredients and pop them into a powerful blender with 120ml of water, then pass the mixture through a fine-mesh strainer and drink immediately.
  • (13) Also, a single isolate of L. ivanovii was obtained from a mesh screen strainer of the waste water treatment plant located near the works.
  • (14) Hyperchlorination of shower heads and angle valve strainers had only a short-lived effect on legionellae.
  • (15) 4 Strain with a tea strainer and serve (preferably in two old-fashioned teacups).

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