Sieve

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A utensil of wire mesh or closely perforated metal, used for straining, sifting, ricing, or puréeing.
  • v. To pass through a sieve.
  • verb-intransitive. To use a sieve; sift.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A device to separate larger objects from smaller objects, or to separate solid objects from a liquid.
  • n. A process, physical or abstract, that arrives at a final result by filtering out unwanted pieces of input from a larger starting set of input.
  • v. To strain, sift or sort using a sieve.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A utensil for separating the finer and coarser parts of a pulverized or granulated substance from each other. It consist of a vessel, usually shallow, with the bottom perforated, or made of hair, wire, or the like, woven in meshes.
  • n. A kind of coarse basket.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. An instrument for separating the finer from the coarser parts of disintegrated matter, by shaking it so as to force the former through meshes too small for the latter to pass. Sieves are made in many forms for a great variety of uses. See hair-siere, scarce, screen, bolting-cloth, etc.
  • n. Something for other use shaped like or in some way resembling the common circular sieve.
  • n. A wide sheepskin-covered hoop used in some localities for holding wool.
  • n. In calico-printing, a cloth extending over a vat which contains the color.
  • n. Figuratively, a thing which lacks closeness of texture, or a person who lacks closeness of disposition; especially, a very frank or free-spoken person; one who lets out all that he knows.
  • To cause the finer parts of to pass through or as if through a sieve; sift.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. examine in order to test suitability
  • n. a strainer for separating lumps from powdered material or grading particles
  • v. check and sort carefully
  • v. separate by passing through a sieve or other straining device to separate out coarser elements
  • v. distinguish and separate out
  • Verb Form
    sieved    sieves    sieving   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    pick out    select    take    choose    analyze    canvass    examine    canvas    study    analyse   
    Cross Reference
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    tense    search    cribble    screen    bolter    colander    drum    grate    grating    riddle   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Viv    forgive    give    liv    live    misgive    outlive    relive   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    colander    strainer    pail