(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).
Tammy
Definition:
(n.) A kind of woolen, or woolen and cotton, cloth, often highly glazed, -- used for curtains, sieves, strainers, etc.
(n.) A sieve, or strainer, made of this material; a tamis.
Example Sentences:
(1) Wisconsin elected the first openly gay senator, Tammy Baldwin.
(2) What she'd sing at a karaoke and Lambrini night Anything by Tammy Wynette.
(3) Unfortunately, Tammy’s test wasn’t good enough, and her attempt resulted in a “head, a moustache and necktie”.
(4) Tammy Mercure ( tammymercure.com) is a photographer living in Nashville, TN , who has travelled widely in the region.
(5) But she concludes that the influence of money in politics is such that she needed to stay and fight it – raising the $7m in outside money spent against Tammy Duckworth in a single congressional election: "Changing the role of money in politics is really a very important motivator for me."
(6) Humans use stereotypes as a cognitive shortcut and we’re all prone to it,” said Tammy Campbell, author of the article to be published in the Journal of Social Policy .
(7) For more than 20 years Tammy has been leading trips like this, bringing people out into the kind of villages – rural, indigenous, thin on votes – that politicians didn’t visit, helping Quechua families earn a living from the hiking paths and food and stories that only they knew.
(8) Updated at 3.57pm GMT 3.49pm GMT Barack Obama speaks at Green Bay, Wisconsin, rally Making his first campaign appearance for four days, Barack Obama lands in front on a modest crowd at a chilly airport in Green Bay, where he's appearing with Tammy Baldwin , likely to be Wisconsin's next US senator if the polls are anything to go by.
(9) A subset of lymphocyte CD44 molecules is modified by covalent linkage to chondroitin sulfate (Jalkanen, S., M. Jalkanen, R. Bargatze, M. Tammi, and E. C. Butcher.
(10) Tammy Baldwin, of Wisconsin, made history by becoming the first openly gay US senator .
(11) Then she angrily told Kroft: I'm not sitting here, some little woman, standing by my man like Tammy Wynette .
(12) US election 2016: Trump and Clinton watch votes as Florida 'razor close' – live Read more On a night of dashed hopes in the presidential election, Democratic morale was buoyed slightly by a Senate victory in Illinois, where congresswoman Tammy Duckworth beat the Republican incumbent, Mark Kirk.
(13) Among those joining the Senate will be Tammy Baldwin, of Wisconsin, who made history twice over.
(14) Tammy Samede, as the principal named defendant, said outside the court: "This is not the end.
(15) sneers Tammy, 19, regardless of Hayley's growing ire.
(16) Labor's Patrick Dodson says Indigenous treaty should be an option Read more On Tuesday, Shorten was campaigning in Perth with Labor’s candidate for Swan, human rights activist and Indigenous woman Tammy Solonec.
(17) He's called Lee, and he's a smart bloke, keen to impress on me that he's a Guardian reader, and old enough to remember a time when the conceptual artist who has assembled him and 16 of his co-workers here today wasn't a conceptual artist: the brief but spectacular era when Bill Drummond was one half of the biggest-selling singles band in the world, the KLF, who made No 1 in 18 countries with a single on which Tammy Wynette sang about the Illuminati and ice cream vans; and the period before that when Drummond was a record company man, band manager and the subject of much music press debate about whether he was a genius or just a headcase.
(18) This summer has been historically bad at the box office: Fourth of July weekend was down a whopping 42% , despite the industry catering toward the international market (Transformers) and women (Tammy), and the US box office this month dropped over 50% from a year ago .
(19) John Cooper QC, representing the principal defendant, Tammy Samede, denies the camp has any or "any significant implications" for the rights and freedoms of others.
(20) The race between Tammy Baldwin , a longtime Democratic congresswoman who would be the first openly lesbian Senator, and Tommy Thompson , a former governor and Bush cabinet official, is very close, and it's set new records in Wisconsin for spending.