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Sieve vs. Winnow — What's the Difference?

Sieve vs. Winnow — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Sieve and Winnow

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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".

Winnow

To separate the chaff from (grain) by means of a current of air.

Sieve

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

Winnow

To blow (chaff) off or away.

Sieve

To pass through a sieve.
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Winnow

To examine closely in order to separate the good from the bad; sift
The judges winnowed a thousand essays down to six finalists.

Sieve

To use a sieve; sift.

Winnow

To separate or get rid of (an undesirable part); eliminate
Winnowing out the errors in logic.

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.

Winnow

To sort or select (a desirable part); extract
The investigators winnowed the facts from the testimony.

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.

Winnow

To blow on; fan
A breeze winnowing the tall grass.

Sieve

(obsolete) A kind of coarse basket.

Winnow

To separate grain from chaff.

Sieve

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

Winnow

To separate the good from the bad.

Sieve

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

Winnow

A device for winnowing grain.

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.

Winnow

An act of winnowing.

Sieve

To strain, sift or sort using a sieve.

Winnow

To subject (granular material, especially food grain) to a current of air separating heavier and lighter components, as grain from chaff.

Sieve

(sports) To concede; let in

Winnow

To separate, sift, analyse, or test by separating items having different values.
They winnowed the field to twelve.
They winnowed the winners from the losers.
They winnowed the losers from the winners.

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.

Winnow

To blow upon or toss about by blowing; to set in motion as with a fan or wings.

Sieve

A kind of coarse basket.

Winnow

To move about with a flapping motion, as of wings; to flutter.

Sieve

A strainer for separating lumps from powdered material or grading particles

Winnow

That which winnows or which is used in winnowing; a contrivance for fanning or winnowing grain.

Sieve

Examine in order to test suitability;
Screen these samples
Screen the job applicants

Winnow

The act of winnowing

Sieve

Check and sort carefully;
Sift the information

Winnow

To separate, and drive off, the chaff from by means of wind; to fan; as, to winnow grain.
Ho winnoweth barley to-night in the threshing floor.

Sieve

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

Winnow

To sift, as for the purpose of separating falsehood from truth; to separate, as bad from good.
Winnow well this thought, and you shall findThis light as chaff that flies before the wind.

Sieve

Distinguish and separate out;
Sift through the job candidates

Winnow

To beat with wings, or as with wings.
Now on the polar winds; then with quick fanWinnows the buxom air.

Winnow

To separate chaff from grain.
Winnow not with every wind.

Winnow

The act of separating grain from chaff;
The winnowing was done by women

Winnow

Separate from chaff;
She stood there winnowing grain all day in the field

Winnow

Blow on;
The wind was winnowing her hair

Winnow

Treat by exposure to a current of air so that waste matter is eliminated;
Winnow grain

Winnow

Remove by a current of air;
Winnow chaff

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