colander

CEFRB1

/ˈkɒləndə(ɹ)/

noun

Türkçe translations

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    A bowl with holes used to drain food.

  2. 02

    noun

    Extra detail

    A bowl-shaped kitchen utensil with holes in it used for draining food that has been cooking in water, such as pasta.

Examples

  • Ziri asked Rima if he could borrow her colander.

  • Drain the pasta into the colander.

At a glance

Sits at B1 on the CEFR scale

Senses
2
Parts of speech
1
Citations
1

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More examples

In context

  • Let it drain in a colander.

  • An electric fire came next, followed by an umbrella and then a colander. "This bowl will carry no water," he muttered. "Some loon hath pierced it with holes."

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Question 1 · Quick check

She rinsed the spaghetti in a blank to drain the water.

Practise this properly in the app, where the word comes back before you forget it.

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Origin

noun

From Middle English colyndore, coloundour, colonur, variants of Middle English culdor, culdore, culatre, ultimately from Latin cōlātōrium, from Latin cōlum. Cognates include Italian colino and Spanish colador.