strainer
IPA: strˈeɪnɝ
noun
- 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.
- 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.
- One who strains.
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Examples of "strainer" in Sentences
- I think it was called a sea strainer.
- It has a sequence of 30 strainer pylons.
- Metal particles are clogging the strainer.
- Metal particles in oil sample and strainer.
- Metallic particles are clogging the strainer.
- A strainer screen and method for its production.
- It is sometimes also called a sieve or a strainer.
- Stainless steel strainer is just a duplicate article of colander.
- As for the strainer arches the citation appears to be wrong there.
- The concave part of the strainer is perforated with several dozen small holes.
- Nonnie, my host mom, helps me squish all the honey cells through a strainer, which is great fun.
- Strain the liquid through a piece of cheesecloth to remove the unwanted berry parts, sometimes a strainer is adequate.
- The debris where the body was found is what rescuers call a strainer and "if you get into it, you're not getting out of it," Camps said.
- It is stirred in a mixing glass and strained with a julep strainer which is used with mixing glasses into a chilled cocktail glass and garnished with a cherry.
- A typical form of vessel of this period is the long narrow strainer, which is borne by the Cup-Bearer in the palace fresco, and of which various specimens have been found.
- Put in a new post for a gate - known here as a 'strainer' because it takes the strain of either the weight of the gate or the tensioned fence in the other direction, or both.
- In the second place, the horny matter on the palates of the dugong and manatee has not, even initially, that "strainer" action, which is the characteristic function of the Cetacean "baleen."
- My English-Spanish/Spanish-English dictionary is stained with red fingerprints from the albanil who was trying to grout my tile and struggled to get me to understand that he needed a certain tool - one that translated into 'strainer' in English, but was really one of those rubber squeegee-like things that they use to wipe down floors.