Definitions for Sieve
sɪvsieve

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. sieve, screenverb

   a strainer for separating lumps from powdered material or grading particles

2. screen, screen out, sieve, sortverb

   examine in order to test suitability

   "screen these samples"; "screen the job applicants"

3. sieve, siftverb

   check and sort carefully

   "sift the information"

4. sift, sieve, strainverb

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

   "sift the flour"

5. sieve, siftverb

   distinguish and separate out

   "sift through the job candidates"

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. sievenoun

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

   Use the sieve to get the pasta from the water.

2. 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.

3. sieveverb

   To strain, sift or sort using a sieve.

4. Etymology: From sife, sibi. Akin to German Sieb, Dutch zeef, * (Russian,,).

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Sievenoun

   Hair or lawn strained upon a hoop, by which flower is separated from bran, or fine powder from coarse; a boulter; a searce.

   Etymology: from sift.

   Thy counsel
   Falls now into my ears as profitless
   As water in a sieve. William Shakespeare.

   In a sieve I’ll thither sail,
   And like a rate without a tail,
   I’ll do —— I’ll do —— I’ll do. William Shakespeare, Macbeth.

   An innocent found a sieve, and presently fell to stopping the holes. Roger L'Estrange.

   If life sunk through you like a leaky sieve,
   Accuse yourself you liv’d not while you might. Dryden.

WikipediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Sieve

   A sieve, fine mesh strainer, or sift, is a device for separating wanted elements from unwanted material or for controlling 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. In cooking, a sifter is used to separate and break up clumps in dry ingredients such as flour, as well as to aerate and combine them. A strainer (see Colander), meanwhile, is a form of sieve used to separate suspended solids from a liquid by filtration.

ChatGPTRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. sieve

   A sieve is a tool or device used for separating finer particles from coarser ones, or solids from liquids. It is usually a utensil consisting of a wire or plastic mesh held in a frame used for straining solids from liquids, for separating coarser from finer particles, or for reducing soft solids to a pulp.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:4.0 / 1 vote

1. 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

2. Sievenoun

   a kind of coarse basket

3. Etymology: [OE. sive, AS. sife; akin to D. zeef, zift, OHG. sib, G. sieb. 151a. Cf. Sift.]

WikidataRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Sieve

   Sieve is a programming language that can be used to create filters for email. It owes its creation to the CMU Cyrus Project, creators of Cyrus IMAP server. The language is not tied to any particular operating system or mail architecture. It requires the use of RFC 2822-compliant messages, but otherwise should generalize to other systems that meet these criteria. The current version of Sieve's base specification is outlined in RFC 5228, published in January 2008. Sieve differs from traditional programming languages in that it is highly limited – the base standard has no variables, and no loops, preventing runaway programs and limiting the language to simple filtering operations. Although extensions have been devised to extend the language to include variables and, to a limited degree, loops, the language is still highly restricted, and thus unsuitable for running user-devised programs as part of the mail system. There are also a significant number of restrictions on the grammar of the language, in order to reduce the complexity of parsing the language, but the language also supports the use of multiple methods for comparing localized strings, and is fully Unicode-aware. The Sieve scripts may be generated by a GUI-based rules editor or they may be entered directly using a text editor.

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Sieve

   siv, n. a vessel with a bottom of woven hair or wire to separate the fine part of anything from the coarse: a person who cannot keep a secret.—v.t. to put through a sieve: to sift. [A.S. sife; Ger. seib.]

Surnames Frequency by Census RecordsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. SIEVE

   According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Sieve is ranked #44034 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
   
   The Sieve surname appeared 489 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Sieve.
   
   95.5% or 467 total occurrences were White.
   1.6% or 8 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
   1.2% or 6 total occurrences were Asian.
   1% or 5 total occurrences were Black.

Matched Categories

1. • Examine
   • Select
   • Separate

How to pronounce Sieve?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

How to say Sieve in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of Sieve in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of Sieve in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of Sieve in a Sentence

1. Rodrigo Maia:

   By changing the numbers, the Ministry of Health covers the sun with a sieve, the credibility of the statistics needs to be urgently recovered. A ministry that manipulates numbers creates a parallel world in order not to face the reality of the facts.

2. Trey Gowdy:

   Adam Schiff leaks like a sieve.

3. Kahlil Gibran:

   They consider me to have sharp and penetrating vision because I see them through the mesh of a sieve.

4. Vladislav Seleznyov:

   We continue to control the southern part of the airport ... we left the new terminal because it looks like a sieve and there's simply nowhere to hide there.

5. Georges Bernanos:

   I know the compassion of others is a relief at first. I don't despise it. But it can't quench pain, it slips through your soul as through a sieve. And when our suffering has been dragged from one pity to another, as from one mouth to another, we can no longer respect or love it.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=Sieve
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Sieve
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=Sieve
4. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sieve
5. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
6. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Sieve
7. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=Sieve
8. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=Sieve
9. ^ Surnames Frequency by Census Records
   https://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/2010_surnames.html