Sievenoun
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.
âUse the sieve to get the pasta from the water.â;
Strainernoun
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.
Sievenoun
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.
âGiven a list of consecutive numbers starting at 1, the Sieve of Eratosthenes algorithm will find all of the prime numbers.â;
Strainernoun
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.
Sievenoun
(obsolete) A kind of coarse basket.
Strainernoun
One who strains.
Sievenoun
(colloquial) A person, or their mind, that cannot remember things or is unable to keep secrets.
Strainernoun
One who strains.
Sievenoun
(category theory) A collection of morphisms in a category whose codomain is a certain fixed object of that category, which collection is closed under pre-composition by any morphism in the category.
Strainernoun
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.
Sieveverb
To strain, sift or sort using a sieve.
Strainernoun
a filter to retain larger pieces while smaller pieces and liquids pass through
Sieveverb
(sports) To concede; let in
Strainernoun
a device having holes punched in it or made of crossed wires for separating solid matter from a liquid
âa tea strainerâ;
Sievenoun
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.
Sievenoun
A kind of coarse basket.
Sievenoun
a strainer for separating lumps from powdered material or grading particles
Sieveverb
examine in order to test suitability;
âscreen these samplesâ; âscreen the job applicantsâ;
Sieveverb
check and sort carefully;
âsift the informationâ;
Sieveverb
separate by passing through a sieve or other straining device to separate out coarser elements;
âsift the flourâ;
Sieveverb
distinguish and separate out;
âsift through the job candidatesâ;
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 derives from .
âsiftâ; âsieveâ;