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词汇 sifter
释义 sifter
noun[ C ]
uk /ˈsɪf.tər/ us /ˈsɪf.tɚ/
a piece of kitchen equipment that you put flour, sugar, etc. through in order to break up large pieces : (盖上有小孔的)筛具
a flour sifter面粉筛
a sugar sifter撒糖瓶
 
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a piece of equipment that soil, sand, rubble, etc. is put through in order to separate it into larger and smaller pieces:
Shovels, sifters, and other gardening tools were found at the site.
Archaeologists use shovels, sifters and magnetometers to search for artifacts.
 
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Shake the dry ingredients through a flour sifter or strainer to remove lumps.
Using a sifter or a shaker cover the dough with the cocoa.
At the ready were large archaeology-style dirt sifters, though they proved unnecessary.
Bulldozers and sifters have begun the mammoth task of shifting the sand from people's yards and homes back to the beach.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Straining & filtering devices
air filter
butter paper
charcoal filter
coffee filter
filter
filter bed
filter paper
funnel
greaseproof paper
HEPA filter
hopper
parchment paper
salad spinner
sieve
skimmer
strainer
tea strainer
water filter
wringer

You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics:


Farm vehicles & equipment
Gardening tools
Archaeology

Examples of sifter


sifter
This means that he picks up on aspects that the semantic lyric sifters ignore when scrutinising the stanzas on the page.
All the postmasters are in the invidious position of being censors and sifters.
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Now, unfortunately, newly married people have got to pay more for the pot scourers, pastry boards, coal and cinder sieves and sifters and so on.
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I now turn to the question of cinder sieves and sifters.
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No relaxation can possibly be made on coal and cinder sieves and sifters.
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I am surprised at cinder sifters being taxed.
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One almost trembles with awe at the very names of these spectacular articles, coal sieves and cinder sifters.
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They have to use their cinders, and are only to glad to have sifters.
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But, sifter all, the onus for making the change that is proposed this afternoon does lie on those who are recommending it.
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Will it act as the primary sifter and decide whether to table a remedial order, or will remedial orders be made in every case?
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He repeated it later on babies' baths, and it arose at 3 o'clock in the morning on pot scourers and coal and cinder sifters.
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We are not like a salt cellar to be turned upside down and shaken, or a sugar sifter.
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I would not class coal and cinder sieves and sifters with dustbins for instance—or even with pot scourers and steel wool.
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But there are very special circumstances which apply in the case of coal or cinder sieves or sifters.
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That is to say, as a result of the price of sieves and cinder sifters, people may buy fewer of them.
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