Sifter vs. Sieve

Sifternoun

A tool for sifting, especially one for powdered cooking ingredients.

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.

‘Use the sieve to get the pasta from the water.’;

Sifternoun

(rare) One who sifts.

‘He was employed as a sifter.’;

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.

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

Sifternoun

Any lamellirostral bird, as a duck or goose, so called because it sifts or strains its food from the water and mud by means of the lamellae of the beak.

Sievenoun

(obsolete) A kind of coarse basket.

Sifternoun

One who, or that which, sifts.

Sievenoun

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

Sifternoun

Any lamellirostral bird, as a duck or goose; - so called because it sifts or strains its food from the water and mud by means of the lamell of the beak.

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.

Sifternoun

a household sieve (as for flour)

Sieveverb

To strain, sift or sort using a sieve.

Sieveverb

(sports) To concede; let in

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;

‘screen these samples’; ‘screen the job applicants’;

Sieveverb

check and sort carefully;

‘sift the information’;

Sieveverb

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

‘sift the flour’;

Sieveverb

distinguish and separate out;

‘sift through the job candidates’;

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 .

‘sift’; ‘sieve’;