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What is the noun for sifting?

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sifter
  1. A tool for sifting, especially one for powdered cooking ingredients.
  2. (rare) One who sifts.
  3. 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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  5. Examples:
    1. “When it's time to use it, set the sifter on top of your wheelbarrow or garden cart and shovel some compost into it.”
      “The flour cascaded down in ribbon plumes of white instead of descending straight from a barely elevated sifter.”
      “The powder is filtered through a coarse sifter and put away in canvas bags.”
sifting
siftings
sifters
  1. plural of sifter
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Sauce ladles have occasionally been treated in a similar fashion and sometimes pierced to form sugar sifters.”
      “When the kids arrive, they see a big tarp piled with 10 pounds of flour, bowls, scoops, and sifters.”
      “Joining Buhler at the' young age of 17, Oliver was apprenticed to the head millwright, building equipment such as sifters, valves and mills.”
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