sieve

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. Source: opted

2. n. A kind of coarse basket. Source: opted

3. n. a strainer for separating lumps from powdered material or grading particles Source: wordnet

4. v. examine in order to test suitability Source: wordnet

5. v. check and sort carefully Source: wordnet

6. v. separate by passing through a sieve or other straining device to separate out coarser elements Source: wordnet

7. v. distinguish and separate out Source: wordnet

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. Source: webster

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 Source: ecdict

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