English-Thai Dictionary

sieve

N คน ปากเปราะ  คน เก็บความ ลับ ไม่อยู่  kon-pak-pro

 

sieve

N ตะแกรง  กระชอน  แล่ง  ที่ กรอง  mesh sifter screen ta-krang

 

sieve

VI กรอง  ร่อน ด้วย ตะแกรง  screen winnow krong

 

sieve

VT กรอง  ร่อน  screen winnow krong

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

SIEVE

n.siv. An utensil for separating flour from bran, or the fine part of any pulverized or fine substance from the coarse, by the hand; as a fine sieve; a coarse sieve. It consists of a hoop with a hair bottom, and performs in the family the service of a bolter in a mill.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

SIEVE

Sieve, n. Etym: [OE. sive, AS. sife; akin to D. zeef, zift, OHG. sib, G. sieb. sq. root151a. Cf. Sift. ]

 

1. 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. "In a sieve thrown and sifted. "Chaucer.

 

2. A kind of coarse basket. Simmonds. Sieve cells (Bot. ), cribriform cells. See under Cribriform.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

sieve

sieve |siv sɪv | ▶noun a utensil consisting of a wire or plastic mesh held in a frame, used for straining solids from liquids, for separating coarser from finer particles, or for reducing soft solids to a pulp. • used figuratively with reference to the fact that a sieve does not hold all its contents: she's forgotten all the details already —she's got a mind like a sieve . ▶verb [ with obj. ] put (a food substance or other material ) through a sieve. • (usu. sieve something out ) remove (unwanted items ): filters sieve large particles out of the water to prevent them from harming the pumps. • [ no obj. ] (sieve through ) examine in detail: lawyers had sieved through her contract. DERIVATIVES sieve like |-ˌlīk |adjective ORIGIN Old English sife (noun ); related to Dutch zeef and German Sieb .

 

sieve cell

sieve cell ▶noun Botany a sieve element of a primitive type present in ferns and gymnosperms, with narrow pores and no sieve plate.

 

sieve element

sieve el e ment ▶noun Botany an elongated cell in the phloem of a vascular plant, in which the primary wall is perforated by pores through which water is conducted.

 

sieve plate

sieve plate ▶noun Botany an area of relatively large pores present in the common end walls of sieve tube elements. • Zoology a perforated plate in the integument of an invertebrate, esp. the madreporite of an echinoderm.

 

sievert

sie vert |ˈsēvərt ˈsivərt |(abbr.: Sv ) ▶noun Physics the SI unit of dose equivalent (the biological effect of ionizing radiation ), equal to an effective dose of a joule of energy per kilogram of recipient mass. ORIGIN 1940s: named after Rolf M. Sievert (1896 –1966 ), Swedish radiologist.

 

sieve tube

sieve tube ▶noun Botany a series of sieve tube elements placed end to end to form a continuous tube.

 

sieve tube element

sieve tube el e ment (also sieve tube member ) ▶noun Botany a sieve element of a type present in angiosperms, a series of which are joined end to end to form sieve tubes, with sieve plates between the elements.

 

Oxford Dictionary

sieve

sieve |sɪv | ▶noun a utensil consisting of a wire or plastic mesh held in a frame, used for straining solids from liquids, for separating coarser from finer particles, or for reducing soft solids to a pulp. • used figuratively with reference to the fact that a sieve does not hold all its contents: she's forgotten all the details already, she's got a mind like a sieve . ▶verb [ with obj. ] put (a food substance or other material ) through a sieve. • (usu. sieve something out ) remove (unwanted items ): filters sieve large particles out of the water to prevent them from harming the pumps. • [ no obj. ] (sieve through ) examine in detail: lawyers had sieved through her contract. DERIVATIVES sieve-like adjective ORIGIN Old English sife (noun ), of West Germanic origin; related to Dutch zeef and German Sieb .

 

sieve cell

sieve cell ▶noun Botany a sieve element of a primitive type present in ferns and gymnosperms, with narrow pores and no sieve plate.

 

sieve element

sieve elem |ent ▶noun Botany an elongated cell in the phloem of a vascular plant, in which the primary wall is perforated by pores through which water is conducted.

 

sieve plate

sieve plate ▶noun Botany an area of relatively large pores present in the common end walls of sieve tube elements. • Zoology a perforated plate in the integument of an invertebrate, especially the madreporite of an echinoderm.

 

sievert

sievert |ˈsiːvət |(abbrev.: Sv ) ▶noun Physics the SI unit of dose equivalent (the biological effect of ionizing radiation ), equal to an effective dose of a joule of energy per kilogram of recipient mass. ORIGIN 1940s: named after Rolf M. Sievert (1896 –1966 ), Swedish physicist.

 

sieve tube

sieve tube ▶noun Botany a series of sieve tube elements placed end to end to form a continuous tube.

 

sieve tube element

sieve tube element (also sieve tube member ) ▶noun Botany a sieve element of a type present in angiosperms, a series of which are joined end to end to form sieve tubes, with sieve plates between the elements.

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

sieve

sieve noun use a sieve to strain the mixture: strainer, sifter, filter, riddle, screen. ▶verb 1 sieve the mixture into a bowl. See sift (sense 1 ). 2 the coins were sieved from the ash: separate out, filter out, sift, sort out, isolate, part, extract, remove.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

sieve

sieve noun use a sieve to strain the mixture: strainer, sifter, filter, colander, riddle, screen, muslin cloth; archaic griddle. ▶verb 1 sieve the mixture into a bowl: strain, sift, screen, filter, riddle; archaic bolt, griddle. 2 a hoard of coins was carefully sieved from the ash: separate out, filter out, sift, sort out, isolate, divide, part, segregate, put to one side, weed out, remove, extract.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

sieve

sieve /sɪv /名詞 C 1 こし器, ふるい .2 秘密を漏らす人, 口の軽い人 .h à ve a m é mory [h é ad, m í nd ] like a s í eve ｟くだけて ｠簡単にものを忘れる, もの覚えが非常に悪い .動詞 他動詞 …をこし器でこす (out ).

 

sievert

sie vert /síːvə r t /名詞 C 〘物理 〙シーベルト 〘放射線の人体への作用を表す単位 〙.