Sifter vs. Sieve — What's the Difference?

To put (flour, for example) through a sieve in order to separate the fine from the coarse particles.

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".

To distinguish as if separating with a sieve

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

To apply by scattering through a sieve

To pass through a sieve.

To examine and sort carefully

To use a sieve; sift.

To make use of a 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.

To pass through a 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.

To make a careful examination

(obsolete) A kind of coarse basket.

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

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

(rare) One who sifts.

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

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.

(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.

One who, or that which, sifts.

To strain, sift or sort using a sieve.

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.

(sports) To concede; let in

A household sieve (as for flour)

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;