: 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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Abbey Mastracco, New York Daily News, 14 June 2024
Pass the mixture through a blender, strain through a fine sieve, and transfer to a whipping siphon.
—Rebekah Evans, theweek, 30 May 2024
Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 7 June 2024
To sieve only the sound of a performance is to miss out on a world of visual and atmospheric cues, from body language to lighting to set design, not to mention audience reaction.
—Rhoda Feng, New York Times, 4 Apr. 2024
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Noun
The bullpen was a sieve, with right-hander Grant Hartwig giving up two runs (one earned) in relief of Lucchesi and right-hander Adrian Houser tagged for three (one earned).
—Abbey Mastracco, New York Daily News, 14 June 2024
Pass the mixture through a blender, strain through a fine sieve, and transfer to a whipping siphon.
—Rebekah Evans, theweek, 30 May 2024
Verb
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
To sieve only the sound of a performance is to miss out on a world of visual and atmospheric cues, from body language to lighting to set design, not to mention audience reaction.
—Rhoda Feng, New York Times, 4 Apr. 2024
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“Sieve.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sieve. Accessed 7 Jul. 2024.
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