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Definition of sieve

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Sieve (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..

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Screen :: Screen (n.) A long, coarse riddle or sieve, sometimes a revolving perforated cylinder, used to separate the coarser from the finer parts, as of coal, sand, gravel, and the like..

Tamis :: Tamis (n.) A sieve, or strainer, made of a kind of woolen cloth..

Cribriform :: Cribriform (a.) Resembling, or having the form of, a sieve; pierced with holes; as, the cribriform plate of the ethmoid bone; a cribriform compress..

Searce :: Searce (n.) A fine sieve.

Temse :: Temse (n.) A sieve.

Sile :: Sile (n.) A sieve with fine meshes.

Van :: Van (n.) A fan or other contrivance, as a sieve, for winnowing grain..

Ruddle :: Ruddle (n.) A riddle or sieve.

Try :: Try (n.) A screen, or sieve, for grain..

Searcer :: Searcer (n.) A searce, or sieve..

Range :: Range (v.) A bolting sieve to sift meal.

Ranger :: Ranger (n.) That which separates or arranges; specifically, a sieve..

Jigger :: "Jigger (n. & v.) One who, or that which, jigs; specifically, a miner who sorts or cleans ore by the process of jigging; also, the sieve used in jigging..

Straining :: Strainer (n.) That through which any liquid is passed for purification or to separate it from solid matter; anything, as a screen or a cloth, used to strain a liquid; a device of the character of a sieve or of a filter; specifically, an openwork or perforated screen, as for the end of the suction pipe of a pump, to prevent large solid bodies from entering with a liquid..

Dilluing :: Dilluing (n.) A process of sorting ore by washing in a hand sieve.

Sieve :: Sieve (n.) A kind of coarse basket.

Tammy :: Tammy (n.) A kind of woolen, or woolen and cotton, cloth, often highly glazed, -- used for curtains, sieves, strainers, etc..

Jig :: "Jig (v. t.) To sort or separate, as ore in a jigger or sieve. See Jigging, n..

Riddle :: Riddle (n.) A sieve with coarse meshes, usually of wire, for separating coarser materials from finer, as chaff from grain, cinders from ashes, or gravel from sand..

Ethmoidal :: Ethmoidal (a.) Like a sieve; cribriform.