What's the difference between sifter and strainer?

Sifter


Definition:

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

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Using Spiekma's technic, this dust was obtained through successive sifts gathered in a case under the inferior sifter.
  • (2) The study attempted to assess each subject's preferences for the six tasks: collating, stuffing, sorting, pulley assembly, flour-sifter assembly, and circuit-board stuffing.
  • (3) Alison Chapman had come from Hythe with her sons extremely well-prepared – shovels, rake and plastic sifters, but then she did know about gold, being a dealer on ITV's show Dickinson's Real Deal.

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).