to sieve
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5.6
- verb
- /sɪv/
:
cribar
- We sieved the sample by shaking the screen back and forth for up to 10 minutes.
- sieved the sample
Examples
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It was not practical to sieve two of the 30 samples because sieving took over 30 minutes each.
Academic text (2008) -
Provided the peer-review system is healthy, it will sieve out the dross and save the paydirt.
Blog text (23) -
This vision of what justice was before it was sieved through the history of Western civilization, and what it could be again, appeared in front of my eyes this week.
Blog text (11) -
Results indicate that, although it was practical to sieve most of the soil samples in the field, it stopped being practical to sieve samples at about 65 percent saturation because the process was time-consuming.
Academic text (2008) -
Results indicate that, although it was practical to sieve most of the soil samples in the field, it stopped being practical to sieve samples at about 65 percent saturation because the process was time-consuming.
Academic text (2008) -
My sister: an archeologist, sieving Etruscan crockery out of Sicilian ruins.
Fiction book (2001) -
Table 3 displays the mean (73 percent) and range (65 to 90 percent) of saturation levels of samples that were too wet to be sieved.
Academic text (2008) -
Relatively few samples (six) were too wet to be sieved; samples with up to 60 percent moisture were able to be sieved within a 30-minute period.
Academic text (2008) -
Relatively few samples (six) were too wet to be sieved; samples with up to 60 percent moisture were able to be sieved within a 30-minute period.
Academic text (2008) -
He had to sieve through all the reports to find the useful data for his presentation.
Synonyms
451
1.0
To put things into groups by type or order
97
3.4
Check people or things to find problems and decide if they are suitable
61
3.7
To look carefully through information to find what is important
44
3.9
To look through many things carefully to find something specific
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2.8
To put things into groups and into the right order
9
4.3
To check and remove people or things that are not wanted
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8.3
To choose the most important parts from a larger group
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5.3
Remove unwanted bits from food or material by passing them through a screen
To look through a group of things and keep what is useful
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Phrasal Verbs
Compounds
- Specialized
A tube made of cells joined end to end that carries nutrients in flowering plants and some algae
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Etymology
The word sieve comes from an old German word meaning 'to sift' and is like the English word sift. So to sieve information is to sort it carefully and keep what matters, just like a mesh that stops the big bits.