SIEVE
\sˈɪv], \sˈɪv], \s_ˈɪ_v]\
Definitions of SIEVE
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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examine in order to test suitability; "screen these samples"; "screen the job applicants"
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check and sort carefully; "sift the information"
By Princeton University
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examine in order to test suitability; "screen these samples"; "screen the job applicants"
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check and sort carefully; "sift the information"
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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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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A kind of coarse basket.
By Oddity Software
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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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A kind of coarse basket.
By Noah Webster.
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A utensil provided with meshes, as of wire, for separating the finer from the coarser parts of a substance.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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A diaphragm of a coarse meshed fabric, horsehair, wire, etc., used for separating the finer from the coarser parts of any broken or powdered matter.
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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A utensil, generally in shape like the head of a drum, covered with hair or a material with open meshes, for separating flour from bran, or the smaller particles of anything from the large; a bolter; a basket used as a measure.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
By Robley Dunglison
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