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Definition of 'sieve'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) sieve
a utensil with a meshed or perforated surface, used for separating coarse from fine parts of loose matter, for straining liquids, etc.

2. (v.i.) sieve
to put or force through a sieve.

Etymology: (bef. 900; ME sive, OE sife, c. MLG, MD seve, OHG sib, sip)

Definition of 'sieve'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (verb) sieve, screen
a strainer for separating lumps from powdered material or grading particles

2. (verb) screen, screen out, sieve, sort
examine in order to test suitability
"screen these samples"; "screen the job applicants"

3. (verb) sieve, sift
check and sort carefully
"sift the information"

4. (verb) sift, sieve, strain
separate by passing through a sieve or other straining device to separate out coarser elements
"sift the flour"

5. (verb) sieve, sift
distinguish and separate out
"sift through the job candidates"

Definition of 'sieve'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. (noun) sieve
a kitchen device like a metal net used to remove water or large pieces from food
Remove any lumps with a sieve.

Definition of 'sieve'

Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) 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

2. (noun) sieve
a kind of coarse basket

Translation of 'sieve'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: a container with a bottom full of very small holes, used to separate liquids from solids or small, fine pieces from larger ones etc He poured the soup through a sieve to remove all the lumps.
Afrikaans: sif	Arabic: مُنْخُل	Bulgarian: решето
Brazilian: coador	Czech: síto, cedník	German: das Sieb
Danish: si	Greek: σουρωτήρι, κόσκινο	Spanish: colador, tamiz, criba
Estonian: sõel	Farsi: غربال	Finnish: sihti
French: tamis, crible	Hebrew: מַסנֶנֶת	Hindi: छलनी
Croatian: sito, rešeto	Hungarian: szita	Indonesian: tapisan
Icelandic: sigti	Italian: setaccio	Japanese: ふるい
Korean: 체	Lithuanian: rėtis, sietas	Latvian: siets
Malay: penapis	Dutch: zeef	Norwegian: dørslag, sil
Polish: sito	Persian: غربال	Pashto: غلبيل، پروېزى: نينوونې، چ
Portuguese: passador	Romanian: sită; strecurătoare	Russian: сито
Slovak: sit(k)o	Slovenian: cedilo, sito	Serbian: cediljka
Swedish: såll, sikt	Thai: ตะแกรง	Turkish: süzgeç, elek
Taiwanese: 細篩，濾網	Ukrainian: решето, сито	Urdu: چھنی
Vietnamese: cái giần, cái sàng	Chinese: 细筛，滤网
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