Thesaurus: sieve

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1. n. 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. n. A kind of coarse basket.
3. n. a strainer for separating lumps from powdered material or grading particles
4. v. examine in order to test suitability
5. v. check and sort carefully
6. v. separate by passing through a sieve or other straining device to separate out coarser elements
7. v. distinguish and separate out
8. 1. 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. "In a sieve thrown and sifted." Chaucer. 2. A kind of coarse basket. Simmonds. Sieve cells (Bot.), cribriform cells. See under Cribriform.
9. v:16/n:84 n. a strainer for separating lumps from powdered material or grading particles v. check and sort carefully v. distinguish and separate out