Sift vs. Sieve

Sift vs. Sieve — Is There a Difference?
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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.

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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.

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Siftverb

move as if through a sieve;

The soldiers sifted through the woods

Sieveverb

(sports) To concede; let in

Siftverb

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

sift the flour

Sievenoun

a strainer for separating lumps from powdered material or grading particles

Siftverb

check and sort carefully;

sift the information

Sieveverb

examine in order to test suitability;

screen these samplesscreen the job applicants

Siftverb

distinguish and separate out;

sift through the job candidates

Sieveverb

check and sort carefully;

sift the information

Sieveverb

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

sift the flour

Sieveverb

distinguish and separate out;

sift through the job candidates