: a device with meshes or perforations through which finer particles of a mixture (as of ashes, flour, or sand) of various sizes may be passed to separate them from coarser ones, through which the liquid may be drained from liquid-containing material, or through which soft materials may be forced for reduction to fine particles
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Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Sep. 2024
Cleanup crews wearing full-body hazmat suits strode into the tide with hand sieves to try to collect the lentil-size plastic pellets.
—CBS News, 3 Oct. 2024
Weizhen Tan, CNBC, 30 Sep. 2024
The sieving methods cannot be generalized so far as to push the result down to N = 2, however.
—Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 7 June 2024
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Noun
Here, the same guidelines apply: Using a colander or sieve—or just your hands—search through the sediment at the shoreline.
—Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Sep. 2024
Cleanup crews wearing full-body hazmat suits strode into the tide with hand sieves to try to collect the lentil-size plastic pellets.
—CBS News, 3 Oct. 2024
Verb
Stock screens Morgan Stanley did a few stock screens to sieve out those set to benefit.
—Weizhen Tan, CNBC, 30 Sep. 2024
The sieving methods cannot be generalized so far as to push the result down to N = 2, however.
—Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 7 June 2024
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“Sieve.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sieve. Accessed 22 Nov. 2024.
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