sito — meaning in English

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.
• sifter noun A tool for sifting, especially one for powdered cooking ingredients.
• 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

sito 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.
• sifter A tool for sifting, especially one for powdered cooking ingredients.

sieve — full definition

1. noun A kitchen tool with a mesh bottom used to separate larger pieces from smaller ones or to drain liquid from solids.
2. noun Something, or someone, that lets too much through — a poor filter, especially for secrets or memory.
3. verb To pass something through a sieve; to sift or strain.

sifter — full definition

1. noun A tool for sifting, especially one for powdered cooking ingredients.
2. noun One who sifts.
3. noun 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 lamellae of the beak.

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