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Sifter vs Sifted - What's the difference?

sifter | sifted |

As a noun sifter

is a tool for sifting, especially one for powdered cooking ingredients.

As an adjective sifted is

having been sifted.

As a verb sifted is

past tense of sift.

sifter

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Noun

(en noun)
  • A tool for sifting, especially one for powdered cooking ingredients.
  • (rare) One who sifts.
    • He was employed as a sifter .
  • 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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    sifted

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    Adjective

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  • Having been sifted.
    • The recipe called for sifted flour so it would be fluffier.

    Verb

    (head)
  • (sift)

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