sieve
sieve (siv)
noun
a utensil having many small meshed or perforated openings, used to strain solids from liquids, to separate fine particles of loose matter from coarser ones, etc.; sifter; strainer
Etymology: ME sive < OE sife, akin to Ger sieb < IE base *seip-, to drip > seep
transitive verb, intransitive verb sieved, siev′·ing
to put or pass through a sieve; sift
sieve
n.
Object
- flour: Beat the eggs, gradually adding a little of the sieved flour toward the end to prevent the cake batter curdling.
- compost: Then cover this layer with sieved compost, up to the rim of the tray.
- sugar: Roll out half the marzipan on a surface lightly dusted with sieved icing sugar into a round to fit the top of the cake.
- soil: Once soil and artifacts have been excavated, we have a team who sieve the soil in order to retrieve finds.
- ingredient: Sieve the dry ingredients, make a well in the center & gradualy beat in the liquid from the saucepan & the beaten egg.
- sample: An alternative is to sieve the sample through a fine nylon mesh.
Preposition: into
- saucepan: Strain the liquid through a sieve into a small saucepan.
- bowl: Rub the tomatoes through a sieve into a bowl.
Adjective modifier
- molecular: The molecular sieve with very large surface area accumulates water molecules from the gas stream.
- fine: Strain through a fine sieve into a jug or bowl.
Modifies a noun
- flour: Sieve flour, baking powder and salt into a bowl.
- analysis: Samples are transported back to the laboratory for sieve analysis in this fashion.
- element: There are sieve elements found in phloem tissue which actually transport the substances around the plant.
Noun used with modifier
- micron: It is then washed through a 75 micron sieve using hot water.
- nylon: Push through a nylon sieve to remove the pips.
- hair: Strain through a very fine hair sieve into a clean barrel.
- kitchen: The new device, called a racquet, is made of a kitchen sieve with a handle built on.
- garden: I was fishing about trying to locate them, with the aid of a small plastic garden sieve.
- test: At every stage of manufacture each test sieve is individually inspected by optical projection including the very latest computer based optical measuring equipment.
Infinitive complement
- remove: First the slurry was sieved to remove any debris washed out of the scrap steel.
They called aloud 'Our Sieve ain't big, But we don't care a button! We don't care a fig!'
Por hembras yo no me pierdo. La que me empaca su amor pasa por el cernidor ysi te vi, no me acuerdo. I make no fuss about females. The one who gives me her love Gets sifted in my private sieve andI don't think we ever met.
They went to sea in a sieve, they did In a sieve they went to sea.
Far and few, far and few, Are the lands where the Jumblies live; Their heads are green, and their hands are blue, And they went to sea in a Sieve.
Washington isa sieveit was virtually impossibletofind out who was doing the leaking and shut them up.
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