Definition of sieve in English:

sieve

noun sɪvsɪv

1A utensil consisting of a wire or plastic mesh held in a frame, used for straining solids from liquids, for separating coarser from finer particles, or for reducing soft solids to a pulp.
筛（子）；筛网；滤器
puree the potatoes through a sieve
rinse the lentils in a sieve under running water
Example sentencesExamples
- Wash the lentils in a sieve under running water.
- Using cheesecloth or a sieve, strain the ghee into a glass jar with a tight lid.
- Push the cooking liquid through a fine sieve into a clean pan over a medium heat, and whisk in the butter till you have a glossy sauce.
- Pour the curds into a sieve to remove all liquid and keep aside for two hours.
- The researcher used a fine sieve to strain out remains of insects and small mammals from several sites.
- Dissolve the coffee in 125 ml boiling water and strain through a fine sieve into a saucepan.
- Pour the cooking liquid through a sieve and press with a wooden spoon to get all the juices out.
- The sand collected from different locations are first washed, then dried and put through sieves to separate the large and small grains.
- Using a slotted spoon, transfer the cabbage leaves to an ice bath to chill and strain through a mesh sieve.
- Puree the tomatoes and strain in a sieve into a container, retaining the juice.
- Strain the oyster liquid through a sieve to remove any grit and shell.
- Miniature gnocchi for putting into soup can be made by pressing the dough through a coarse sieve or a perforated spoon.
- The liquid is strained through a grass sieve and served in tiny cups.
- Strain the liquid from the figs through a fine mesh sieve and transfer to a saucepan.
- Takewaka strains the noodles by whipping an acorn-shaped sieve through the air in a dramatic figure-eight, splashing scalding water against a window between the kitchen and the restaurant and drawing gasps from startled diners.
- Strain the chilies through a fine mesh sieve, reserving the water and chilies separately.
- Seeds were separated from the dry inflorescences on 300-mesh sieves, and stored in the dark at 4°C until use.
- Mesh barriers or sieves can screen out anything larger than a certain size from incoming water.
- When the rice is done, drain it gently in a sieve or colander, letting the liquid run out of its own accord but not shaking it dry.
- Push the tomato pulp through the sieve with a wooden spoon then discard the remains.
Synonyms
strainer, sifter, filter, colander, riddle, screen, muslin cloth
archaic griddle
1. 1.1 Used figuratively with reference to the fact that a sieve does not hold all its contents.
  〈喻〉什么都装不住的东西
  she's forgotten all the details already, she's got a mind like a sieve
  她已经忘记了所有细节，她什么都记不住。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Which led to a brief conversation, marred slightly by the fact that I have a mind like a sieve, and no sooner had we parted than I realised I couldn't remember what she said her name was.
  Your ship is leaking like a sieve, your career is in tatters and ‘this is not a good day’.
  It's got several very memorable scenes - I can still recall quite a bit of the book even though I haven't read it in years and I have a mind like a sieve.
  The band is loose but swings, the production is appropriately rough and leaking like a sieve, and the song selection draws from Burnside favorites.
  Meanwhile, I have got a roof that's leaking like a sieve.

verb sɪvsɪv

[with object]

1Put (a food substance or other material) through a sieve.
筛（食物或其他原料）
sieve the flour and sugar together in a bowl
dredge with sieved icing sugar
Example sentencesExamples
- Within two days, we sieved the soil to remove large pebbles and plant litter, weighed the fresh samples, dried the samples in an oven at 100°C for 48 h, and reweighed them.
- We were carefully removing the soil deposits and sieving them when a small piece of copper alloy came to our notice.
- As the soil was very friable due to being sieved into all treatment plots, rows were lifted with a garden fork and the retrieved roots were taken as representative of the root system.
- At the end of that time the rubbish is sieved, metal objects are removed with magnets and the immature compost is placed onto the maturation floor.
- The various races included children dressed as postmen with sling bags delivering letters at the finishing line, or as bakers who sieved flour before scampering to finish the race.
- Each day we checked all bottles during daylight, sieved the residual millet left by nocturnally-foraging white-footed mice, recharged the sand with millet, and replaced each bottle in its original location.
- All surface sediments and core intervals were sieved with 1-mm, 106-m, and 63-m sieves, dried at 60°C, and weighed.
- Their model chocolate contains amorphous sugar particles - created by spray drying a mixture of corn syrup and sucrose and sieving the mixture to ensure that all the particles are the same size.
- Pulp raspberries in a blender, sieve the sauce then add sugar to taste.
- The contents of culture flasks were sieved, rinsed, and blotted to remove as much water as practical.
- In most studies, bulk samples are sieved and all fossils of a specified size fraction are counted and identified.
- For the cobbler topping, sieve the flour, baking powder, cinnamon and a pinch of salt into a bowl and add 50g of sugar and the lemon zest.
- Gradually stir in the well beaten eggs and the flour which was earlier sieved with the baking powder.
- The soil was sieved to remove any large aggregates and pieces of organic matter.
- When the material is then sieved and the finer fraction sent to the assay furnace the gold particles could stay on the screen and be left out.
- Soilsamples from the site were sieved for carbonised seeds and small bones, vital clues for building up a picture of the community and its inhabitants.
- Prior to the experiments, this natural sand was sieved to remove pebbles and organic material.
- When the olives are harvested, he explains, they have to be sieved to remove leaves, then washed, then pressed.
- They can gather up to 30 tons a day in summer, which is around five million cockles, each one raked and sieved by hand.
- Seeds were sieved from each tray, and the tray was charged with new seeds, which were thoroughly mixed into the sand.
Synonyms
strain, sift, screen, filter, riddle
archaic bolt, griddle
1. 1.1usually sieve something out Remove (unwanted items)
  filters sieve large particles out of the water to prevent them from harming the pumps
  过滤器会将大的颗粒从水中滤出以免它们损伤水泵。
2. 1.2sieve throughno object Examine in detail.
  〈喻〉仔细检查
  lawyers had sieved through her contract
  律师已经仔细检查了她的合同。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Specialist officers are sieving through soil trying to find anything that may be significant to the case.
  The ATV project manager, Robert Lainé, compared the CDR process to sieving through the complete programme to find possible bugs.
  There may exist a concerted lobby of people from some communal organizations whose job is to sieve through the media everyday and send hateful letters to editors - using mostly fictitious names and addresses.
  Today began with another thoroughly reprehensible example of my almost excessive insecurity, sieved through a fine mesh of my permanently resident paranoia.
  The trouble is, that clarity of thought and clarity of feeling have to be sieved through some very muddy waters, and those waters are oneself.
  But I tell her, you must, above all, know the sieve through which one life passes.
  And out of long habit, his mind sieved through the rushing info, keeping some and filing it away, but letting most flow back out into the timeless cyber-sea.
  As I was sieving through the racks of CDs I saw a boy the other side of the shelf.
  At 12 Kelburn Parade, the Vic Accommodation Services sieve through most of the tedious but crucial details for you, plus they have a map!
  Spot these ‘good bargain shops’ in any good market, Green Park or in Central Delhi and you cannot miss the young crowd that is seen sieving through the purses, soft toys, perfumes and other items.
  The alternate version was that the Taichung police worked with more than 600 broadband service providers to sieve through several hundred nicknames of online game players before identifying The Loner and the Plumber / Electrician.

Derivatives

sieve-like

adjective

For years, I had passed that proud old building, lying behind a sieve-like camouflage of trees and a towering grey wall, not noticing the grandeur of the magnificent school, or the role it has in providing for its children.
Example sentencesExamples
- He then accompanied me downstairs to take a look at the increasingly sieve-like nature of my bathroom ceiling.
- Most commonly, humpbacks are solitary diners, eating a diet of krill - a shrimp-like crustacean - and plankton, which they filter through hundreds of sieve-like plates called a baleen.
- Since then my life has comprised days of an aching body and nights of sleeplessness - long hours spent listening to the icy wind scraping crackly leaves along the paving and rattling doors in the sieve-like structure I call home.
- Currently the zoo pumps water from the Braamfontein Spruit into a sieve-like catchment tank, which starts the purifying process.

Origin

Old English sife (noun), of West Germanic origin; related to Dutch zeef and German Sieb.

Rhymes

forgive, give, live, misgive, outlive, shiv, spiv, Viv

Definition of sieve in US English:

sieve

nounsivsɪv

1A utensil consisting of a wire or plastic mesh held in a frame, used for straining solids from liquids, for separating coarser from finer particles, or for reducing soft solids to a pulp.
筛（子）；筛网；滤器
Example sentencesExamples
- Pour the cooking liquid through a sieve and press with a wooden spoon to get all the juices out.
- Puree the tomatoes and strain in a sieve into a container, retaining the juice.
- Push the cooking liquid through a fine sieve into a clean pan over a medium heat, and whisk in the butter till you have a glossy sauce.
- Wash the lentils in a sieve under running water.
- Miniature gnocchi for putting into soup can be made by pressing the dough through a coarse sieve or a perforated spoon.
- Takewaka strains the noodles by whipping an acorn-shaped sieve through the air in a dramatic figure-eight, splashing scalding water against a window between the kitchen and the restaurant and drawing gasps from startled diners.
- Push the tomato pulp through the sieve with a wooden spoon then discard the remains.
- The liquid is strained through a grass sieve and served in tiny cups.
- Using cheesecloth or a sieve, strain the ghee into a glass jar with a tight lid.
- When the rice is done, drain it gently in a sieve or colander, letting the liquid run out of its own accord but not shaking it dry.
- Mesh barriers or sieves can screen out anything larger than a certain size from incoming water.
- Seeds were separated from the dry inflorescences on 300-mesh sieves, and stored in the dark at 4°C until use.
- Strain the liquid from the figs through a fine mesh sieve and transfer to a saucepan.
- Pour the curds into a sieve to remove all liquid and keep aside for two hours.
- Dissolve the coffee in 125 ml boiling water and strain through a fine sieve into a saucepan.
- Strain the chilies through a fine mesh sieve, reserving the water and chilies separately.
- Using a slotted spoon, transfer the cabbage leaves to an ice bath to chill and strain through a mesh sieve.
- The researcher used a fine sieve to strain out remains of insects and small mammals from several sites.
- The sand collected from different locations are first washed, then dried and put through sieves to separate the large and small grains.
- Strain the oyster liquid through a sieve to remove any grit and shell.
Synonyms
strainer, sifter, filter, colander, riddle, screen, muslin cloth
1. 1.1 Used figuratively with reference to the fact that a sieve does not hold all its contents.
  〈喻〉什么都装不住的东西
  she's forgotten all the details already—she's got a mind like a sieve
  她已经忘记了所有细节，她什么都记不住。
  Example sentencesExamples
  The band is loose but swings, the production is appropriately rough and leaking like a sieve, and the song selection draws from Burnside favorites.
  Which led to a brief conversation, marred slightly by the fact that I have a mind like a sieve, and no sooner had we parted than I realised I couldn't remember what she said her name was.
  Your ship is leaking like a sieve, your career is in tatters and ‘this is not a good day’.
  Meanwhile, I have got a roof that's leaking like a sieve.
  It's got several very memorable scenes - I can still recall quite a bit of the book even though I haven't read it in years and I have a mind like a sieve.

verbsivsɪv

[with object]

1Put (a food substance or other material) through a sieve.
筛（食物或其他原料）
Example sentencesExamples
- The various races included children dressed as postmen with sling bags delivering letters at the finishing line, or as bakers who sieved flour before scampering to finish the race.
- We were carefully removing the soil deposits and sieving them when a small piece of copper alloy came to our notice.
- Seeds were sieved from each tray, and the tray was charged with new seeds, which were thoroughly mixed into the sand.
- When the material is then sieved and the finer fraction sent to the assay furnace the gold particles could stay on the screen and be left out.
- For the cobbler topping, sieve the flour, baking powder, cinnamon and a pinch of salt into a bowl and add 50g of sugar and the lemon zest.
- Soilsamples from the site were sieved for carbonised seeds and small bones, vital clues for building up a picture of the community and its inhabitants.
- Gradually stir in the well beaten eggs and the flour which was earlier sieved with the baking powder.
- They can gather up to 30 tons a day in summer, which is around five million cockles, each one raked and sieved by hand.
- All surface sediments and core intervals were sieved with 1-mm, 106-m, and 63-m sieves, dried at 60°C, and weighed.
- Each day we checked all bottles during daylight, sieved the residual millet left by nocturnally-foraging white-footed mice, recharged the sand with millet, and replaced each bottle in its original location.
- In most studies, bulk samples are sieved and all fossils of a specified size fraction are counted and identified.
- The soil was sieved to remove any large aggregates and pieces of organic matter.
- Their model chocolate contains amorphous sugar particles - created by spray drying a mixture of corn syrup and sucrose and sieving the mixture to ensure that all the particles are the same size.
- Prior to the experiments, this natural sand was sieved to remove pebbles and organic material.
- Within two days, we sieved the soil to remove large pebbles and plant litter, weighed the fresh samples, dried the samples in an oven at 100°C for 48 h, and reweighed them.
- Pulp raspberries in a blender, sieve the sauce then add sugar to taste.
- As the soil was very friable due to being sieved into all treatment plots, rows were lifted with a garden fork and the retrieved roots were taken as representative of the root system.
- The contents of culture flasks were sieved, rinsed, and blotted to remove as much water as practical.
- When the olives are harvested, he explains, they have to be sieved to remove leaves, then washed, then pressed.
- At the end of that time the rubbish is sieved, metal objects are removed with magnets and the immature compost is placed onto the maturation floor.
Synonyms
strain, sift, screen, filter, riddle
1. 1.1usually sieve something out Remove (unwanted items)
  filters sieve large particles out of the water to prevent them from harming the pumps
  过滤器会将大的颗粒从水中滤出以免它们损伤水泵。
2. 1.2sieve throughno object Examine in detail.
  〈喻〉仔细检查
  lawyers had sieved through her contract
  律师已经仔细检查了她的合同。
  Example sentencesExamples
  And out of long habit, his mind sieved through the rushing info, keeping some and filing it away, but letting most flow back out into the timeless cyber-sea.
  Today began with another thoroughly reprehensible example of my almost excessive insecurity, sieved through a fine mesh of my permanently resident paranoia.
  Spot these ‘good bargain shops’ in any good market, Green Park or in Central Delhi and you cannot miss the young crowd that is seen sieving through the purses, soft toys, perfumes and other items.
  As I was sieving through the racks of CDs I saw a boy the other side of the shelf.
  The trouble is, that clarity of thought and clarity of feeling have to be sieved through some very muddy waters, and those waters are oneself.
  At 12 Kelburn Parade, the Vic Accommodation Services sieve through most of the tedious but crucial details for you, plus they have a map!
  Specialist officers are sieving through soil trying to find anything that may be significant to the case.
  The alternate version was that the Taichung police worked with more than 600 broadband service providers to sieve through several hundred nicknames of online game players before identifying The Loner and the Plumber / Electrician.
  But I tell her, you must, above all, know the sieve through which one life passes.
  The ATV project manager, Robert Lainé, compared the CDR process to sieving through the complete programme to find possible bugs.
  There may exist a concerted lobby of people from some communal organizations whose job is to sieve through the media everyday and send hateful letters to editors - using mostly fictitious names and addresses.

Origin

Old English sife (noun), of West Germanic origin; related to Dutch zeef and German Sieb.

单词	sieve
释义	Definition of sieve in English: sieve noun sɪvsɪv 1A utensil consisting of a wire or plastic mesh held in a frame, used for straining solids from liquids, for separating coarser from finer particles, or for reducing soft solids to a pulp. 筛（子）；筛网；滤器 puree the potatoes through a sieve rinse the lentils in a sieve under running water Example sentencesExamples Wash the lentils in a sieve under running water. Using cheesecloth or a sieve, strain the ghee into a glass jar with a tight lid. Push the cooking liquid through a fine sieve into a clean pan over a medium heat, and whisk in the butter till you have a glossy sauce. Pour the curds into a sieve to remove all liquid and keep aside for two hours. The researcher used a fine sieve to strain out remains of insects and small mammals from several sites. Dissolve the coffee in 125 ml boiling water and strain through a fine sieve into a saucepan. Pour the cooking liquid through a sieve and press with a wooden spoon to get all the juices out. The sand collected from different locations are first washed, then dried and put through sieves to separate the large and small grains. Using a slotted spoon, transfer the cabbage leaves to an ice bath to chill and strain through a mesh sieve. Puree the tomatoes and strain in a sieve into a container, retaining the juice. Strain the oyster liquid through a sieve to remove any grit and shell. Miniature gnocchi for putting into soup can be made by pressing the dough through a coarse sieve or a perforated spoon. The liquid is strained through a grass sieve and served in tiny cups. Strain the liquid from the figs through a fine mesh sieve and transfer to a saucepan. Takewaka strains the noodles by whipping an acorn-shaped sieve through the air in a dramatic figure-eight, splashing scalding water against a window between the kitchen and the restaurant and drawing gasps from startled diners. Strain the chilies through a fine mesh sieve, reserving the water and chilies separately. Seeds were separated from the dry inflorescences on 300-mesh sieves, and stored in the dark at 4°C until use. Mesh barriers or sieves can screen out anything larger than a certain size from incoming water. When the rice is done, drain it gently in a sieve or colander, letting the liquid run out of its own accord but not shaking it dry. Push the tomato pulp through the sieve with a wooden spoon then discard the remains. Synonyms strainer, sifter, filter, colander, riddle, screen, muslin cloth archaic griddle 1.1 Used figuratively with reference to the fact that a sieve does not hold all its contents. 〈喻〉什么都装不住的东西 she's forgotten all the details already, she's got a mind like a sieve 她已经忘记了所有细节，她什么都记不住。 Example sentencesExamples Which led to a brief conversation, marred slightly by the fact that I have a mind like a sieve, and no sooner had we parted than I realised I couldn't remember what she said her name was. Your ship is leaking like a sieve, your career is in tatters and ‘this is not a good day’. It's got several very memorable scenes - I can still recall quite a bit of the book even though I haven't read it in years and I have a mind like a sieve. The band is loose but swings, the production is appropriately rough and leaking like a sieve, and the song selection draws from Burnside favorites. Meanwhile, I have got a roof that's leaking like a sieve. verb sɪvsɪv [with object] 1Put (a food substance or other material) through a sieve. 筛（食物或其他原料） sieve the flour and sugar together in a bowl dredge with sieved icing sugar Example sentencesExamples Within two days, we sieved the soil to remove large pebbles and plant litter, weighed the fresh samples, dried the samples in an oven at 100°C for 48 h, and reweighed them. We were carefully removing the soil deposits and sieving them when a small piece of copper alloy came to our notice. As the soil was very friable due to being sieved into all treatment plots, rows were lifted with a garden fork and the retrieved roots were taken as representative of the root system. At the end of that time the rubbish is sieved, metal objects are removed with magnets and the immature compost is placed onto the maturation floor. The various races included children dressed as postmen with sling bags delivering letters at the finishing line, or as bakers who sieved flour before scampering to finish the race. Each day we checked all bottles during daylight, sieved the residual millet left by nocturnally-foraging white-footed mice, recharged the sand with millet, and replaced each bottle in its original location. All surface sediments and core intervals were sieved with 1-mm, 106-m, and 63-m sieves, dried at 60°C, and weighed. Their model chocolate contains amorphous sugar particles - created by spray drying a mixture of corn syrup and sucrose and sieving the mixture to ensure that all the particles are the same size. Pulp raspberries in a blender, sieve the sauce then add sugar to taste. The contents of culture flasks were sieved, rinsed, and blotted to remove as much water as practical. In most studies, bulk samples are sieved and all fossils of a specified size fraction are counted and identified. For the cobbler topping, sieve the flour, baking powder, cinnamon and a pinch of salt into a bowl and add 50g of sugar and the lemon zest. Gradually stir in the well beaten eggs and the flour which was earlier sieved with the baking powder. The soil was sieved to remove any large aggregates and pieces of organic matter. When the material is then sieved and the finer fraction sent to the assay furnace the gold particles could stay on the screen and be left out. Soilsamples from the site were sieved for carbonised seeds and small bones, vital clues for building up a picture of the community and its inhabitants. Prior to the experiments, this natural sand was sieved to remove pebbles and organic material. When the olives are harvested, he explains, they have to be sieved to remove leaves, then washed, then pressed. They can gather up to 30 tons a day in summer, which is around five million cockles, each one raked and sieved by hand. Seeds were sieved from each tray, and the tray was charged with new seeds, which were thoroughly mixed into the sand. Synonyms strain, sift, screen, filter, riddle archaic bolt, griddle 1.1usually sieve something out Remove (unwanted items) filters sieve large particles out of the water to prevent them from harming the pumps 过滤器会将大的颗粒从水中滤出以免它们损伤水泵。 1.2sieve throughno object Examine in detail. 〈喻〉仔细检查 lawyers had sieved through her contract 律师已经仔细检查了她的合同。 Example sentencesExamples Specialist officers are sieving through soil trying to find anything that may be significant to the case. The ATV project manager, Robert Lainé, compared the CDR process to sieving through the complete programme to find possible bugs. There may exist a concerted lobby of people from some communal organizations whose job is to sieve through the media everyday and send hateful letters to editors - using mostly fictitious names and addresses. Today began with another thoroughly reprehensible example of my almost excessive insecurity, sieved through a fine mesh of my permanently resident paranoia. The trouble is, that clarity of thought and clarity of feeling have to be sieved through some very muddy waters, and those waters are oneself. But I tell her, you must, above all, know the sieve through which one life passes. And out of long habit, his mind sieved through the rushing info, keeping some and filing it away, but letting most flow back out into the timeless cyber-sea. As I was sieving through the racks of CDs I saw a boy the other side of the shelf. At 12 Kelburn Parade, the Vic Accommodation Services sieve through most of the tedious but crucial details for you, plus they have a map! Spot these ‘good bargain shops’ in any good market, Green Park or in Central Delhi and you cannot miss the young crowd that is seen sieving through the purses, soft toys, perfumes and other items. The alternate version was that the Taichung police worked with more than 600 broadband service providers to sieve through several hundred nicknames of online game players before identifying The Loner and the Plumber / Electrician. Derivatives sieve-like adjective For years, I had passed that proud old building, lying behind a sieve-like camouflage of trees and a towering grey wall, not noticing the grandeur of the magnificent school, or the role it has in providing for its children. Example sentencesExamples He then accompanied me downstairs to take a look at the increasingly sieve-like nature of my bathroom ceiling. Most commonly, humpbacks are solitary diners, eating a diet of krill - a shrimp-like crustacean - and plankton, which they filter through hundreds of sieve-like plates called a baleen. Since then my life has comprised days of an aching body and nights of sleeplessness - long hours spent listening to the icy wind scraping crackly leaves along the paving and rattling doors in the sieve-like structure I call home. Currently the zoo pumps water from the Braamfontein Spruit into a sieve-like catchment tank, which starts the purifying process. Origin Old English sife (noun), of West Germanic origin; related to Dutch zeef and German Sieb. Rhymes forgive, give, live, misgive, outlive, shiv, spiv, Viv Definition of sieve in US English: sieve nounsivsɪv 1A utensil consisting of a wire or plastic mesh held in a frame, used for straining solids from liquids, for separating coarser from finer particles, or for reducing soft solids to a pulp. 筛（子）；筛网；滤器 Example sentencesExamples Pour the cooking liquid through a sieve and press with a wooden spoon to get all the juices out. Puree the tomatoes and strain in a sieve into a container, retaining the juice. Push the cooking liquid through a fine sieve into a clean pan over a medium heat, and whisk in the butter till you have a glossy sauce. Wash the lentils in a sieve under running water. Miniature gnocchi for putting into soup can be made by pressing the dough through a coarse sieve or a perforated spoon. Takewaka strains the noodles by whipping an acorn-shaped sieve through the air in a dramatic figure-eight, splashing scalding water against a window between the kitchen and the restaurant and drawing gasps from startled diners. Push the tomato pulp through the sieve with a wooden spoon then discard the remains. The liquid is strained through a grass sieve and served in tiny cups. Using cheesecloth or a sieve, strain the ghee into a glass jar with a tight lid. When the rice is done, drain it gently in a sieve or colander, letting the liquid run out of its own accord but not shaking it dry. Mesh barriers or sieves can screen out anything larger than a certain size from incoming water. Seeds were separated from the dry inflorescences on 300-mesh sieves, and stored in the dark at 4°C until use. Strain the liquid from the figs through a fine mesh sieve and transfer to a saucepan. Pour the curds into a sieve to remove all liquid and keep aside for two hours. Dissolve the coffee in 125 ml boiling water and strain through a fine sieve into a saucepan. Strain the chilies through a fine mesh sieve, reserving the water and chilies separately. Using a slotted spoon, transfer the cabbage leaves to an ice bath to chill and strain through a mesh sieve. The researcher used a fine sieve to strain out remains of insects and small mammals from several sites. The sand collected from different locations are first washed, then dried and put through sieves to separate the large and small grains. Strain the oyster liquid through a sieve to remove any grit and shell. Synonyms strainer, sifter, filter, colander, riddle, screen, muslin cloth 1.1 Used figuratively with reference to the fact that a sieve does not hold all its contents. 〈喻〉什么都装不住的东西 she's forgotten all the details already—she's got a mind like a sieve 她已经忘记了所有细节，她什么都记不住。 Example sentencesExamples The band is loose but swings, the production is appropriately rough and leaking like a sieve, and the song selection draws from Burnside favorites. Which led to a brief conversation, marred slightly by the fact that I have a mind like a sieve, and no sooner had we parted than I realised I couldn't remember what she said her name was. Your ship is leaking like a sieve, your career is in tatters and ‘this is not a good day’. Meanwhile, I have got a roof that's leaking like a sieve. It's got several very memorable scenes - I can still recall quite a bit of the book even though I haven't read it in years and I have a mind like a sieve. verbsivsɪv [with object] 1Put (a food substance or other material) through a sieve. 筛（食物或其他原料） Example sentencesExamples The various races included children dressed as postmen with sling bags delivering letters at the finishing line, or as bakers who sieved flour before scampering to finish the race. We were carefully removing the soil deposits and sieving them when a small piece of copper alloy came to our notice. Seeds were sieved from each tray, and the tray was charged with new seeds, which were thoroughly mixed into the sand. When the material is then sieved and the finer fraction sent to the assay furnace the gold particles could stay on the screen and be left out. For the cobbler topping, sieve the flour, baking powder, cinnamon and a pinch of salt into a bowl and add 50g of sugar and the lemon zest. Soilsamples from the site were sieved for carbonised seeds and small bones, vital clues for building up a picture of the community and its inhabitants. Gradually stir in the well beaten eggs and the flour which was earlier sieved with the baking powder. They can gather up to 30 tons a day in summer, which is around five million cockles, each one raked and sieved by hand. All surface sediments and core intervals were sieved with 1-mm, 106-m, and 63-m sieves, dried at 60°C, and weighed. Each day we checked all bottles during daylight, sieved the residual millet left by nocturnally-foraging white-footed mice, recharged the sand with millet, and replaced each bottle in its original location. In most studies, bulk samples are sieved and all fossils of a specified size fraction are counted and identified. The soil was sieved to remove any large aggregates and pieces of organic matter. Their model chocolate contains amorphous sugar particles - created by spray drying a mixture of corn syrup and sucrose and sieving the mixture to ensure that all the particles are the same size. Prior to the experiments, this natural sand was sieved to remove pebbles and organic material. Within two days, we sieved the soil to remove large pebbles and plant litter, weighed the fresh samples, dried the samples in an oven at 100°C for 48 h, and reweighed them. Pulp raspberries in a blender, sieve the sauce then add sugar to taste. As the soil was very friable due to being sieved into all treatment plots, rows were lifted with a garden fork and the retrieved roots were taken as representative of the root system. The contents of culture flasks were sieved, rinsed, and blotted to remove as much water as practical. When the olives are harvested, he explains, they have to be sieved to remove leaves, then washed, then pressed. At the end of that time the rubbish is sieved, metal objects are removed with magnets and the immature compost is placed onto the maturation floor. Synonyms strain, sift, screen, filter, riddle 1.1usually sieve something out Remove (unwanted items) filters sieve large particles out of the water to prevent them from harming the pumps 过滤器会将大的颗粒从水中滤出以免它们损伤水泵。 1.2sieve throughno object Examine in detail. 〈喻〉仔细检查 lawyers had sieved through her contract 律师已经仔细检查了她的合同。 Example sentencesExamples And out of long habit, his mind sieved through the rushing info, keeping some and filing it away, but letting most flow back out into the timeless cyber-sea. Today began with another thoroughly reprehensible example of my almost excessive insecurity, sieved through a fine mesh of my permanently resident paranoia. Spot these ‘good bargain shops’ in any good market, Green Park or in Central Delhi and you cannot miss the young crowd that is seen sieving through the purses, soft toys, perfumes and other items. As I was sieving through the racks of CDs I saw a boy the other side of the shelf. The trouble is, that clarity of thought and clarity of feeling have to be sieved through some very muddy waters, and those waters are oneself. At 12 Kelburn Parade, the Vic Accommodation Services sieve through most of the tedious but crucial details for you, plus they have a map! Specialist officers are sieving through soil trying to find anything that may be significant to the case. The alternate version was that the Taichung police worked with more than 600 broadband service providers to sieve through several hundred nicknames of online game players before identifying The Loner and the Plumber / Electrician. But I tell her, you must, above all, know the sieve through which one life passes. The ATV project manager, Robert Lainé, compared the CDR process to sieving through the complete programme to find possible bugs. There may exist a concerted lobby of people from some communal organizations whose job is to sieve through the media everyday and send hateful letters to editors - using mostly fictitious names and addresses. Origin Old English sife (noun), of West Germanic origin; related to Dutch zeef and German Sieb.
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