sieve

Speech parts

1. sieve - Noun

2. sieve - Verb

Meaning

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.

A kind of coarse basket.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

screen sort strain sift strainer screen out riddle bolt sorter percolator separate separator plexus distil filter

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Antonyms

connector finding detection demonstration revealing revelation

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Hypernyms

take study separate choose select examine

Hyponyms

riddle rice screen winnow sifter resift

Phrases with the word

memory like a sieve sieve-like have a memory like a sieve have a mind like a sieve have a head like a sieve with a mind like a sieve

Examples

screen these samples Source: Internet

screen the job applicants Source: Internet

sift through the job candidates Source: Internet

sift the flour Source: Internet

sift the information Source: Internet

After four or five days of being placed in a large jar, the rice is placed in a sieve or rice bag, whilst the alcoholic liquid drips out and is stored away. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

sieva sieva bean sievable sieve cell sieve number sieve of Eratosthenes