Sift vs. Sieve
Difference Between Sift and Sieve
Siftverb
To sieve or strain (something).
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.
Use the sieve to get the pasta from the water.Siftverb
To separate or scatter (things) as if by sieving.
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.
Given a list of consecutive numbers starting at 1, the Sieve of Eratosthenes algorithm will find all of the prime numbers.Siftverb
To examine (something) carefully.
Sievenoun
(obsolete) A kind of coarse basket.
Siftverb
(archaic or old-fashioned) To scrutinise (someone or something) carefully so as to find the truth.
Sievenoun
(colloquial) A person, or their mind, that cannot remember things or is unable to keep secrets.
Siftverb
To carefully go through a set of objects, or a collection of information, in order to find something.
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.
Siftverb
To move data records up in memory to make space to insert further records.
Sieveverb
To strain, sift or sort using a sieve.
Siftverb
move as if through a sieve;
The soldiers sifted through the woodsSieveverb
(sports) To concede; let in
Siftverb
separate by passing through a sieve or other straining device to separate out coarser elements;
sift the flourSievenoun
a strainer for separating lumps from powdered material or grading particles
Siftverb
check and sort carefully;
sift the informationSieveverb
examine in order to test suitability;
screen these samplesscreen the job applicantsSiftverb
distinguish and separate out;
sift through the job candidatesSieveverb
check and sort carefully;
sift the informationSieveverb
separate by passing through a sieve or other straining device to separate out coarser elements;
sift the flourSieveverb
distinguish and separate out;
sift through the job candidates
