English Dictionary: sieve | by the DICT Development Group |
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Sieve \Sieve\, n. [OE. sive, AS. sife; akin to D. zeef, zift, OHG. sib, G. sieb. [root]151a. Cf. {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 made of hair, wire, or the like, woven in meshes. [bd]In a sieve thrown and sifted.[b8] --Chaucer. 2. A kind of coarse basket. --Simmonds. {Sieve cells} (Bot.), cribriform cells. See under {Cribriform}. |