Look up: sieve

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   Sieve
   A garden sieve is a frame with a mesh bottom. Mainly used for separating compost, but sometimes used in very stony gardens. Home made ones made out of two by fours, 2' x 2' with a 1/2 inch hardcloth bottom is most handy.
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   Sieve
   A fine, mesh strainer.
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   sieve
   [n] - a strainer for separating lumps from powdered material or grading particles 2. [v] - check and sort carefully 3. [v] - distinguish and separate out
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   Sieve
   A strainer for separating lumps from powdered material or grading particles.
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   sieve
   a meshed or perforated sheet(as a metal or cloth)with apertures of uniform size used to separate powdered or granulated material according to the size of its particles... Category: Building industry • bowl-shaped household utensil with holes and meshes fitted into a frame. It is used to screen various substances, separating the smaller particles that pass through the mesh from the lar ...
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   Sieve
   Sieve noun [ Middle English sive , Anglo-Saxon sife ; akin to Dutch zeef , zift , Old High German sib , German sieb . √151 a . Confer Sift .] 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 mad ...
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   sieve
   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.' ... 2. A kind of coarse basket. ... <botany> Sieve cells, cribriform cells. See ...
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   sieve
   noun a strainer for separating lumps from powdered material or grading particles
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   Sieve
   In general, a `sieve` separates wanted/desired elements from unwanted material using a tool such as a mesh, net or other filtration or distillation methods. The word `sift` derives from this term. A `strainer` is a type of sieve typically associated with separating liquids from solids. `Sieve` may mean:
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    Sieve
    • (n.) A kind of coarse basket. • (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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    sieve
    A meshed or perforated device for separating fine particles from coarser ones. [O.E. sive]
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    Sieve
    See 'Screen'
    Found on http://www.moxie-intl.com/glossary.htm
    
    
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    Sieve
    A metallic plate or sheet, a woven-wire cloth, or other similar device, with regularly spaced apertures of uniform size, mounted in a suitable frame or holder for use in separating granular material according to size.
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    sieve
    a traditional measure of the fineness of a wire screen (such as the screening used in a sieve). Higher sieve numbers correspond to finer screens. In The U.S., 10 sieve fabric has openings of 2 millimeters; 100 sieve has openings of 0.15 millimeters. A similar but slightly different scale was used in Britain. In the metric system, sieve fineness is ...
    Found on http://www.unc.edu/~rowlett/units/dictS.