sieve, screen
(noun) a strainer for separating lumps from powdered material or grading particles
sieve, sift
(verb) distinguish and separate out; âsift through the job candidatesâ
sift, sieve, strain
(verb) separate by passing through a sieve or other straining device to separate out coarser elements; âsift the flourâ
sieve, sift
(verb) check and sort carefully; âsift the informationâ
screen, screen out, sieve, sort
(verb) examine in order to test suitability; âscreen these samplesâ; âscreen the job applicantsâ
Source: WordNet® 3.1
sieve (plural sieves)
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.
Coordinate terms: sifter, sile, riddle
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.
(obsolete) A kind of coarse basket.
(colloquial) A person, or their mind, that cannot remember things or is unable to keep secrets.
(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.
sieve (third-person singular simple present sieves, present participle sieving, simple past and past participle sieved)
To strain, sift or sort using a sieve.
(sports) To concede; let in
Source: Wiktionary
Sieve, n. Etym: [OE. sive, AS. sife; akin to D. zeef, zift, OHG. sib, G. sieb. sq. root151a. Cf. Sift.]
1. 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. "In a sieve thrown and sifted." Chaucer.
2. A kind of coarse basket. Simmonds. Sieve cells (Bot.), cribriform cells. See under Cribriform.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
22 February 2025
(noun) the use of closed-class words instead of inflections: e.g., âthe father of the brideâ instead of âthe brideâs fatherâ
Contrary to popular belief, coffee beans are not technically beans. They are referred to as such because of their resemblance to legumes. A coffee bean is a seed of the Coffea plant and the source for coffee. It is the pit inside the red or purple fruit, often referred to as a cherry. Just like ordinary cherries, the coffee fruit is also a so-called stone fruit.
