siivilä — meaning in English
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English meaning
- sieve noun A kitchen tool with a mesh bottom used to separate larger pieces from smaller ones or to drain liquid from solids.
- strainer 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.
Senses
siivilä is used for these senses in English:
- sieve A device with a mesh, grate, or otherwise perforated bottom to separate, in a granular material, larger particles from smaller ones, or to separate solid objects from a liquid.
sieve — full definition
- noun A kitchen tool with a mesh bottom used to separate larger pieces from smaller ones or to drain liquid from solids.
- noun Something, or someone, that lets too much through — a poor filter, especially for secrets or memory.
- verb To pass something through a sieve; to sift or strain.
strainer — full definition
- 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.
- noun 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.
- noun Debris in water that blocks the passage of solid objects.
- noun One who strains.
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