Sieve vs. Winnow

Sievenoun

A device with a mesh bottom to separate, in a granular material, larger particles from smaller ones, or to separate solid objects from a liquid.

Sievenoun

A process, physical or abstract, that arrives at a final result by filtering out unwanted pieces of input from a larger starting set of input.

Sievenoun

(obsolete) A kind of coarse basket.

Sievenoun

(colloquial) A person, or their mind, that cannot remember things or is unable to keep secrets.

Sievenoun

(category theory) A collection of morphisms in a category whose codomain is a certain fixed object of that category, which collection is closed under pre-composition by any morphism in the category.

Sieveverb

To strain, sift or sort using a sieve.

Sieveverb

(sports) To concede; let in

Sievenoun

A utensil for separating the finer and coarser parts of a pulverized or granulated substance from each other. It consist of a vessel, usually shallow, with the bottom perforated, or made of hair, wire, or the like, woven in meshes.

Sievenoun

A kind of coarse basket.

Sievenoun

a strainer for separating lumps from powdered material or grading particles

Sieveverb

examine in order to test suitability;

Sieveverb

check and sort carefully;

Sieveverb

separate by passing through a sieve or other straining device to separate out coarser elements;

Sieveverb

distinguish and separate out;

Sieve

A sieve, fine mesh strainer, or sift, is a device for separating wanted elements from unwanted material or for characterizing the particle size distribution of a sample, using a screen such as a woven mesh or net or perforated sheet material. The word derives from .

Winnowverb

To subject (granular material, especially food grain) to a current of air separating heavier and lighter components, as grain from chaff.

Winnowverb

To separate, sift, analyze, or test by separating items having different values.

Winnowverb

To blow upon or toss about by blowing; to set in motion as with a fan or wings.

Winnowverb

To move about with a flapping motion, as of wings; to flutter.

Winnownoun

That which winnows or which is used in winnowing; a contrivance for fanning or winnowing grain.

Winnowverb

To separate, and drive off, the chaff from by means of wind; to fan; as, to winnow grain.

Winnowverb

To sift, as for the purpose of separating falsehood from truth; to separate, as bad from good.

Winnowverb

To beat with wings, or as with wings.

Winnowverb

To separate chaff from grain.

Winnownoun

the act of separating grain from chaff;

Winnowverb

separate from chaff;

Winnowverb

blow on;

Winnowverb

treat by exposure to a current of air so that waste matter is eliminated;

Winnowverb

remove by a current of air;