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Sifter vs Sitter - What's the difference?

sifter | sitter |

As nouns the difference between sifter and sitter

is that sifter is a tool for sifting, especially one for powdered cooking ingredients while sitter is someone who sits, eg for a portrait.

sifter

English

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.

    • Anagrams

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    sitter

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Someone who sits, e.g. for a portrait.
  • One employed to watch or tend something; the general form of babysitter, housesitter, petsitter, etc.
    • It's always such a pain to get a sitter on short notice.
  • A broody hen.
  • (football, and, snooker, slang) A very easy scoring chance.
    • How could he miss that? It was an absolute sitter !

    See also

    * bedsitter * sit * sitting duck

    Anagrams

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    Verb

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