Sieve vs. Strainer

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".

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

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

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

To pass through a sieve.

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

To use a sieve; sift.

An apparatus for tightening, stretching, or strengthening.

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.

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.

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.

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.

(obsolete) A kind of coarse basket.

One who strains.

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

One who strains.

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

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.

(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.

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

To strain, sift or sort using a sieve.

(sports) To concede; let in

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.

A kind of coarse basket.

a strainer for separating lumps from powdered material or grading particles

examine in order to test suitability;

check and sort carefully;

separate by passing through a sieve or other straining device to separate out coarser elements;

distinguish and separate out;