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How to pronounce sieve in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms screen
Type of strainer
Has types sifter, riddle
Derivation sift
Type Words
Synonyms sift
Type of select, take, choose, pick out
Type Words
Synonyms screen, screen out, sort
Type of pick out, choose, take, select
Type Words
Synonyms sift, strain
Type of separate
Has types winnow, resift, rice, riddle, screen
Type Words
Synonyms sift
Type of analyse, examine, analyze, study, canvass

Examples of sieve

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In fine sieve, wash rice under cold running water until draining water is clear.
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Sprinkle zucchini with 1 teaspoon salt and leave to drain in a sieve for 1 hour.
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Line a sieve with a single layer of cheesecloth and place the sieve over a bowl.
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Pass the braising liquor through a sieve into a clean pan and reduce to a sauce.
From the independent.co.uk
Strain the soaking water through a fine-mesh sieve or coffee filter and reserve.
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Pass the hot milk-cream mixture through a sieve to strain out the cardamom pods.
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Strain through a fine sieve and place in a bowl of ice water to cool completely.
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Let stand for about 30 seconds, then strain through cheesecloth or a fine sieve.
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Grind the peel in a spice grinder and pass the resulting powder through a sieve.
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More examples
  • A strainer for separating lumps from powdered material or grading particles
  • Screen: examine in order to test suitability; "screen these samples"; "screen the job applicants"
  • Check and sort carefully; "sift the information"
  • Sift: separate by passing through a sieve or other straining device to separate out coarser elements; "sift the flour"
  • Distinguish and separate out; "sift through the job candidates"
  • A sieve, or sifter, separates wanted elements from unwanted material using a filter 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 liquid. ...
  • 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 open covers in topology.
  • 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'.
  • 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.