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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Ranger :: Ranger (n.) That which separates or arranges; specifically, a sieve..
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..
Sile :: Sile (n.) A sieve with fine meshes.
Cribrose :: Cribrose (a.) Perforated like a sieve; cribriform.
Temse :: Temse (n.) A sieve.
Ethmoidal :: Ethmoidal (a.) Like a sieve; cribriform.
Limp :: Limp (n.) A scraper for removing poor ore or refuse from the sieve.
Bolt :: Bolt (n.) A sieve, esp. a long fine sieve used in milling for bolting flour and meal; a bolter..
Searcer :: Searcer (n.) A searce, or sieve..
Sift :: Sift (v. t.) To separate with a sieve, as the fine part of a substance from the coarse; as, to sift meal or flour; to sift powder; to sift sand or lime..
Rudder :: Rudder (n.) A riddle or sieve.
Dilluing :: Dilluing (n.) A process of sorting ore by washing in a hand 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..
Try :: Try (n.) A screen, or sieve, for grain..
Knockings :: Knockings (n. pl.) Large lumps picked out of the sieve, in dressing ore..
Puree :: Puree (n.) A dish made by boiling any article of food to a pulp and rubbing it through a sieve; as, a puree of fish, or of potatoes; especially, a soup the thickening of which is so treated..
Transcolate :: Transcolate (v. t.) To cause to pass through a sieve or colander; to strain, as through a sieve..
Bolter :: Bolter (n.) An instrument or machine for separating bran from flour, or the coarser part of meal from the finer; a sieve..
Range :: Range (v.) A bolting sieve to sift meal.
Sieve :: 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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