Sieve Definition

sĭv
sieved, sieves, sieving
noun
sieves
A utensil having many small meshed or perforated openings, used to strain solids from liquids, to separate fine particles of loose matter from coarser ones, etc.; sifter; strainer.
Webster's New World

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.
Wiktionary
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.
Wiktionary
Synonyms:
verb
sieved, sieves, sieving
To put or pass through a sieve; sift.
Webster's New World
To use a sieve; sift.
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Other Word Forms of Sieve

Noun

Singular:
sieve
Plural:
sieves

Origin of Sieve

  • From Old English sife, Proto-Germanic *sibi. Akin to German Sieb, Dutch zeef, Slavic *sito (Russian сито (sito), сев (sev), сеять (sejatʹ)).

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English sive from Old English sife

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Sieve Sentence Examples

  • Incomplete fusion occurs in sieve tubes.

  • In the evening the milk is strained through a wire sieve and transferred to barrels.

  • The companion cells are cut off from the same cells as those which unite to form the sieve tube.

  • At an early period Wallsend was famous for its coal, but the name has now a general application to coal that does not go through a sieve with meshes five-eighths of an inch in size.

  • Let us imagine unit mass of solution of volume V confined in a cylinder ABC between a fixed vapour sieve B and a solid piston A A B C FIG.

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SSISIE

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