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percolator collapse: a coffeepot in which boiling water ascends through a central tube and filters back down through a basket of ground coffee beans

sifter collapse: a household sieve (as for flour)

strainer collapse: a filter to retain larger pieces while smaller pieces and liquids pass through

colander collapse: bowl-shaped strainer; used to wash or drain foods

purifier collapse: an apparatus for removing impurities

rocker collapse: a curved support that permits the supported object to rock to and fro; an ice skate with a curved blade; a trough that can be rocked back and forth; used by gold miners to shake auriferous earth in water in order to separate the gold; a teenager or young adult in the 1960s who wore leather jackets and rode motorcycles; a performer or composer or fan of rock music; an attendant who rocks a child in a cradle

refinery collapse: an industrial plant for purifying a crude substance

filter collapse: device that removes something from whatever passes through it; an electrical device that alters the frequency spectrum of signals passing through it; remove by passing through a filter; "filter out the impurities"

basket collapse: a score in basketball made by throwing the ball through the hoop; a container that is usually woven and has handles; horizontal circular metal hoop supporting a net through which players try to throw the basketball; the quantity contained in a basket

winnow collapse: the act of separating grain from chaff; "the winnowing was done by women"; blow away or off with a current of air; "winnow chaff"; separate the chaff from by using air currents; "She stood there winnowing chaff all day in the field"; blow on; "The wind was winnowing her hair"; "the wind winnowed the grass"

sieve collapse: a strainer for separating lumps from powdered material or grading particles; distinguish and separate out; "sift through the job candidates"; check and sort carefully; "sift the information"

cradle collapse: a baby bed with sides and rockers; birth of a person; "he was taught from the cradle never to cry"; run with the stick; hold gently and carefully; "He cradles the child in his arms"; wash in a cradle; "cradle gold"; cut grain with a cradle scythe; hold or place in or as if in a cradle; "He cradled the infant in his arms"; bring up from infancy

filtration collapse: the act of changing a fluid by passing it through a filter; the process whereby fluids pass through a filter or a filtering medium

filtering collapse

receptacle collapse: a container that is used to put or keep things in; an electrical (or electronic) fitting that is connected to a source of power and equipped to receive an insert; enlarged tip of a stem that bears the floral parts

classification collapse: restriction imposed by the government on documents or weapons that are available only to certain authorized people; the basic cognitive process of arranging into classes or categories; a group of people or things arranged by class or category

gauging collapse

airship collapse: a steerable self-propelled airship

clarification collapse: an interpretation that removes obstacles to understanding; "the professor's clarification helped her to understand the textbook"

cask collapse: the quantity a cask will hold

appraisal collapse: the classification of someone or something with respect to its worth; a document appraising the value of something (as for insurance or taxation)

sorting collapse: grouping by class or kind or size

evaluation collapse: act of ascertaining or fixing the value or worth of; an appraisal of the value of something; "he set a high valuation on friendship"

encase collapse: enclose in, or as if in, a case; "my feet were encased in mud"

riddle collapse: a coarse sieve (as for gravel); a difficult problem; set a difficult problem or riddle; "riddle me a riddle"; explain a riddle; speak in riddles; pierce with many holes; "The bullets riddled his body"; separate with a riddle, as grain from chaff

sifting collapse

male organs collapse

clitoris collapse: a female sexual organ homologous to the penis

ovary collapse: (vertebrates) one of usually two organs that produce ova and secrete estrogen and progesterone; the organ that bears the ovules of a flower

penis collapse: the male organ of copulation (`member' is a euphemism)

gonads collapse

vulva collapse: external parts of the female genitalia

testicles collapse

testes collapse

female organs collapse

phallus collapse: genus of fungi having the cap or pileus hanging free around the stem

sex organs collapse

scrotum collapse: the external pouch that contains the testes

private parts collapse

uterus collapse: a hollow muscular organ in the pelvic cavity of females; contains the developing fetus

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