Look up: sieve

1. 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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2. Sieve
   A fine, mesh strainer.
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3. 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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4. Sieve
   A strainer for separating lumps from powdered material or grading particles.
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5. 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 ...
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6. 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 ...
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7. 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. ....
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8. sieve
   noun a strainer for separating lumps from powdered material or grading particles
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9. 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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10. Sieve
    See 'Screen'
    Found on http://www.moxie-intl.com/glossary.htm
    
    
11. 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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12. 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...
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13. sieve
    Type: Term Pronunciation: siv Definitions: 1. A meshed or perforated device for separating fine particles from coarser ones.
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14. Sieve
    A `sieve`, or `sifter`, separates wanted elements from unwanted material using a woven screen such as a mesh or net.--> However, in cooking, especially with flour, a sifter is used to aerate the substance, among other things. A `strainer` is a type of sieve typically used to separate a solid from a ...
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15. Sieve
    (category theory) In category theory, a branch of mathematics, a `sieve` is a way of choosing arrows with a common codomain. It is a categorical analogue of a collection of open subsets of a fixed open set in topology. In a Grothendieck topology, certain sieves become categorical analogues of...
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16. Sieve
    (mail filtering language) `Sieve` is a programming language that can be used to create filters for email. It owes its creation to the CMU Cyrus Project, creators of Cyrus IMAP server. The language is not tied to any particular operating system or mail architecture. It requires the use of RFC ...
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17. Sieve
    (hieroglyph) The Ancient Egyptian `Sieve hieroglyph` is Gardiner sign listed no. Aa1 for the shape of a circular sieve; it is also seen as a `placenta`. <div>The sieve hieroglyph is used in the Ancient Egyptian language hieroglyphs for the alphabetic consonant letter `kh`. The alter...
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