Definition of "sieve" [sieve]

A utensil of wire mesh or closely perforated metal, used for straining, sifting, ricing, or puréeing. (noun)
To pass through a sieve. (verb-transitive)
To use a sieve; sift. (verb-intransitive)

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Use "sieve" in a sentence

"A sieve is a mechanism, specifically, a device which selects or separates from among that which already exists."
"If it leaks like a sieve, is there anything you can do about it?"
"With each side conceding four last Tuesday it looked on the cards anyway, though neither manager licked his lips too publicly in advance lest it smacked of the colander calling the sieve holey."

Words like "sieve"

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have a memory like a sieve

have a mind like a sieve

pick out select sieved sieves

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