Sift vs. Sieve: What's the Difference?

To put (flour, for example) through a sieve in order to separate the fine from the coarse particles.

A utensil of wire mesh or closely perforated metal or plastic, used for straining, sifting, ricing, or puréeing.

To distinguish as if separating with a sieve

To pass through a sieve.

To apply by scattering through a sieve

To use a sieve; sift.

To examine and sort carefully

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.

To make use of a sieve.

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.

To pass through a sieve

(obsolete) A kind of coarse basket.

To make a careful examination

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

To sieve or strain (something).

An intern who lets too many non-serious cases into the emergency room.

To separate or scatter (things) as if by sieving.

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

To examine (something) carefully.

To strain, sift or sort using a sieve.

(archaic or old-fashioned) To scrutinise (someone or something) carefully so as to find the truth.

(sports) To concede; let in

To carefully go through a set of objects, or a collection of information, in order to find something.

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.

To move data records up in memory to make space to insert further records.

A kind of coarse basket.

To separate with a sieve, as the fine part of a substance from the coarse; as, to sift meal or flour; to sift powder; to sift sand or lime.

A strainer for separating lumps from powdered material or grading particles

To separate or part as if with a sieve.

Examine in order to test suitability;

To examine critically or minutely; to scrutinize.

Check and sort carefully;

Move as if through a sieve;

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

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

Distinguish and separate out;

Check and sort carefully;

Distinguish and separate out;