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# colander

«colander» in Mova's school dictionary: **a kitchen bowl full of small holes, used for draining…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a colander, colanders)

### meaning for a pupil

A colander is a kitchen bowl full of small holes, used for draining water from food such as pasta or for washing vegetables. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/colander/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In cooking lessons and at home, pasta is tipped into a colander in the sink so the water runs out. In science it shows separating a solid from a liquid, like a big sieve. Safety: an adult should pour boiling water into the colander. Phrases: drain in a colander, rinse in a colander.

### examples

- Mum drained the spaghetti in a colander. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/colander/#x1)
- I washed the strawberries in the colander. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/colander/#x2)
- Water ran out through the holes of the colander. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/colander/#x3)
- We used a colander to separate the peas from the water. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/colander/#x4)
- Grandma's colander is made of metal. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/colander/#x5)
- Put the colander in the sink before you pour. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/colander/#x6)

### note

Countable: a colander, colanders. Pronounced KOL-an-der or KUL-an-der. Do not confuse with «calendar» (days and months), which sounds similar. A sieve has a fine mesh; a colander has bigger holes.

### In the corpora

- [Draining pasta is a separation: the holes of the colander are big enough for water but too small for the pasta.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/8-separating-mixtures/2/)
- [A colander or a filter lets small things through and keeps bigger things back; a tea bag is a filter too.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/8-separating-mixtures/5/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «colander» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/colander/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.