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What is a strainer?

What is a strainer? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. 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
  2. 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.
  3. One who strains.
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His cabinets contained a coffee strainer, a sander, a power drill, some paper plates and a couple of forks.
A tapered stainless steel strainer screen and bottom cap offers the ultimate in non-corrosive foot valves.
If you don't have a garbage disposal, keep your drain covered with a fine mesh strainer to prevent clogs.
A white metal tea strainer, white metal cup and salt and pepper shakers also made the list.
Where the strainer is threaded underneath, a washer slips on and then a lock nut is tightened down until the putty oozes out.
Their baleen plates have bristly inner edges that intertwine to form a strainer or filter.

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