Sieve Synonyms

sĭv
Distinguish and separate out
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. sift
Separate by passing through a sieve or other straining device to separate out coarser elements
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. sift
  2. strain
A strainer for separating lumps from powdered material or grading particles
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. screen
  2. colander
  3. bolt
  4. sifter
  5. mesh
  6. strainer
  7. bolting cloth
  8. basket
  9. searce
  10. bolter
  11. hair sieve
  12. drum sieve
  13. filter
  14. flat sieve
  15. quarter-inch sieve
  16. riddle
  17. half-inch sieve
  18. gravel sieve
  19. separate
  20. flour sieve
  21. sift
  22. strain
  23. tammis
  24. tammy
Examine in order to test suitability
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. screen
  2. screen-out
  3. sort

Words Related to Sieve

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Related:

  1. egg-white
  2. seive
  3. fine-mesh
  4. pipette
  5. cornstarch
  6. ladle

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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