sieve : Idioms & Phrases

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Hair sieve

  • a strainer with a haircloth bottom.
Webster 1913

Percussion sieve, Percussion table

  • a machine for sorting ores by agitation in running water.
Webster 1913

Sieve cells

  • (Bot.), cribriform cells. See under Cribriform.
Webster 1913

sieve out

  • verb separate or remove
    pick over.
    • The customer picked over the selection
WordNet

sieve tube

  • noun tube formed by cells joined end-to-end through which nutrients flow in flowering plants and brown algae
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