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Sieve vs. Strainer

Difference Between Sieve and Strainer

Sieve

A sieve, fine mesh strainer, or sift, is a device for separating wanted elements from unwanted material or for characterizing the particle size distribution of a sample, using a screen such as a woven mesh or net or perforated sheet material. The word "sift" derives from "sieve".
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Strainer

a device having holes punched in it or made of crossed wires for separating solid matter from a liquid
a tea strainer
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Sieve

A utensil of wire mesh or closely perforated metal or plastic, used for straining, sifting, ricing, or puréeing.
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Strainer

One that strains, as a device used to separate liquids from solids.
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Sieve

To pass through a sieve.
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Strainer

A standing or fallen tree whose branches are partly submerged in a fast-flowing river, presenting a hazard to navigation or to swimmers.
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Sieve

To use a sieve; sift.
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Strainer

An apparatus for tightening, stretching, or strengthening.
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Sieve

A device with a mesh bottom to separate, in a granular material, larger particles from smaller ones, or to separate solid objects from a liquid.
Use the sieve to get the pasta from the water.
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Strainer

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.
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Sieve

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.
Given a list of consecutive numbers starting at 1, the Sieve of Eratosthenes algorithm will find all of the prime numbers.
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Strainer

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.
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Sieve

(obsolete) A kind of coarse basket.
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Strainer

One who strains.
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Sieve

(colloquial) A person, or their mind, that cannot remember things or is unable to keep secrets.
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Strainer

One who strains.
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Sieve

An intern who lets too many non-serious cases into the emergency room.
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Strainer

That through which any liquid is passed for purification or to separate it from solid matter; anything, as a screen or a cloth, used to strain a liquid; a device of the character of a sieve or of a filter; specifically, an openwork or perforated screen, as for the end of the suction pipe of a pump, to prevent large solid bodies from entering with a liquid.
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Sieve

(category theory) A collection of morphisms in a category whose codomain is a certain fixed object of that category, which collection is closed under precomposition by any morphism in the category.
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Strainer

a filter to retain larger pieces while smaller pieces and liquids pass through
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Sieve

To strain, sift or sort using a sieve.
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Sieve

(sports) To concede; let in
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Sieve

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.
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Sieve

A kind of coarse basket.
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Sieve

a strainer for separating lumps from powdered material or grading particles
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Sieve

examine in order to test suitability;
screen these samples
screen the job applicants
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Sieve

check and sort carefully;
sift the information
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Sieve

separate by passing through a sieve or other straining device to separate out coarser elements;
sift the flour
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Sieve

distinguish and separate out;
sift through the job candidates
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