Usually means: Device for separating solids, liquids.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. strainer: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. strainer: Merriam-Webster
  3. strainer: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. strainer: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. strainer: Collins English Dictionary
  6. strainer: Vocabulary.com
  7. Strainer, strainer: Wordnik
  8. strainer: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. strainer: Wiktionary
  10. strainer: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. strainer: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. strainer: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. strainer: Dictionary.com
  14. strainer: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Strainer: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Strainer: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. strainer: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. strainer: Rhymezone
  19. Strainer: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. strainer: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. strainer: FreeDictionary.org
  22. strainer: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. strainer: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Epicurus.com Spanish Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Natural Magick (No longer online)
  3. STRAINER: Glossary of Art Terms

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  2. strainer: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. strainer: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. strainer: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. strainer: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glossary of Canoe Terminology (No longer online)

Tech (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Oil Analysis (No longer online)
  3. Schlumberger Oilfield Glossary (No longer online)
  4. Strainer: Latitude Mexico

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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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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