Siever vs. Sieve — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Siever and Sieve
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Siever
Siever is a surname.
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".
Siever
One who sieves.
Sieve
A utensil of wire mesh or closely perforated metal or plastic, used for straining, sifting, ricing, or puréeing.
Sieve
To pass through a sieve.
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Sieve
To use a sieve; sift.
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.
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.
Sieve
(obsolete) A kind of coarse basket.
Sieve
(colloquial) A person, or their mind, that cannot remember things or is unable to keep secrets.
Sieve
An intern who lets too many non-serious cases into the emergency room.
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.
Sieve
To strain, sift or sort using a sieve.
Sieve
(sports) To concede; let in
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.
Sieve
A kind of coarse basket.
Sieve
A strainer for separating lumps from powdered material or grading particles
Sieve
Examine in order to test suitability;
Screen these samples
Screen the job applicants
Sieve
Check and sort carefully;
Sift the information
Sieve
Separate by passing through a sieve or other straining device to separate out coarser elements;
Sift the flour
Sieve
Distinguish and separate out;
Sift through the job candidates
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