Sieve

What do we mean by sieve?

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

To pass through a sieve. intransitive verb

To use a sieve; sift. intransitive verb

To cause the finer parts of to pass through or as if through a sieve; sift.

An instrument for separating the finer from the coarser parts of disintegrated matter, by shaking it so as to force the former through meshes too small for the latter to pass. Sieves are made in many forms for a great variety of uses. See hair-siere, scarce, screen, bolting-cloth, etc. noun

Something for other use shaped like or in some way resembling the common circular sieve. noun

A wide sheepskin-covered hoop used in some localities for holding wool. noun

In calico-printing, a cloth extending over a vat which contains the color. noun

Figuratively, a thing which lacks closeness of texture, or a person who lacks closeness of disposition; especially, a very frank or free-spoken person; one who lets out all that he knows. noun

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. noun

A kind of coarse basket. noun

Cribriform cells. See under Cribriform. noun

A device to separate larger objects from smaller objects, or to separate solid objects from a liquid. noun

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. noun

To strain, sift or sort using a sieve. verb

Examine in order to test suitability verb

A strainer for separating lumps from powdered material or grading particles noun

Check and sort carefully verb

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

Distinguish and separate out verb

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.

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.

A kind of coarse basket.

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

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.

Words that are spelled similarly to sieve:
sieve, siege, nieve, steve, sive, lieve, sieze, seve, siete, kieve, sieva, slieve, stieve, rieve, siebe, pieve.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word sieve:
phloem, zeolite, strainer, parenchyma, sifting, sift, factoring, factored, vestal, krill, pores, logarithm, combinatorial, quadratic, integers, modulo, adsorption, mesh, algorithm, estimator, integer, chromatography, pore, shaken, starch, filtering, finer, conjecture, spoon, riddle, elliptic, decimal, gel, particles, tube, openings, coarse, residue, discrete, bounds, topology, nitrogen, compiler, digits, arithmetic, lattice, vascular, spherical, flour, nuclei, wheel, grains, polynomial, filter, algorithms, bits, particle, gravel, dried, molecules, arrows, grain, methods, pump, stack, composite, factor, holes, liquid, plates, cells, cloth, pot, aggregate, theorem, companion, complexity, rolled, fraction, sample, debris, molecular, prime, log, theory, faster, fastest, sand, stick, numbers, prove, smooth, computing, portrait, cooking, efficient, separation, array, method, oxygen.

Words that rhyme with sieve:
give, live, forgive, combative, liv, relive, outlive, viv, determinative, corroborative, misgive, ziv.

Adjectives that are often used to describe sieve:
fine, mesh, molecular, coarse, large, inch, standard, meshed, top, finer, finest, stainless, hair, lined, upper, quadratic, cylindrical, ordinary, clean, coarsest, leaky, round, circular, smallest, perfect, selective, giant, mechanical, broken, bottom, rotary, coarser, hole, conical, metallic, largest, micron, huge, inverted, revolving, mesoporous, captious, flat, corn, wooden, suitable, mcsh, 200mesh, plastic, wire, delicate, wet, inclined, empty, surgical, rough, shaped, perforated, rectangular, sterile, 100mesh, veritable, silken.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective sieve:
tubes, tube, plate, plates, jigs, analysis, maker, cells, tray, jig, tissue, chromatography, type, makers, effect, range, areas, smith, pores, sizes, size, pits, elements, arm, dishes, test, frames, zeolites, mechanism, transport, sizer, frame, ducts, membrane, bend, vessels, particles, box, membranes, cell, analyses, mixture, column, funnel, map, fraction, cloth, bone, ranges, bed, adsorbents, selection, separation, catalysts, texture, trap, trays, fractions, making, beads, shaking, carbon, dealer, dish, retention, bottom, screen, coke, reader, bearer, adsorption, washing, drums, spoon, drawing, sugar, hyphae, azb, drum, discrimination.

Consonant match to sieve:
serve, save, salve, sauve, soave, serv.

Words that sound like sieve:
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