Sift vs. Sieve: What's the Difference?

Sift and Sieve Definitions
Sift
To put (flour, for example) through a sieve in order to separate the fine from the coarse particles.
Sieve
A utensil of wire mesh or closely perforated metal or plastic, used for straining, sifting, ricing, or puréeing.
Sift
To distinguish as if separating with a sieve
Sifted the candidates for the job.
Sieve
To pass through a sieve.
Sift
To apply by scattering through a sieve
Sift sugar on a dessert.
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Sieve
To use a sieve; sift.
Sift
To examine and sort carefully
Sift the evidence.
Sieve
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.
Sift
To make use of a sieve.
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.
Given a list of consecutive numbers starting at 1, the Sieve of Eratosthenes algorithm will find all of the prime numbers.
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Sift
To pass through a sieve
A meal that sifts easily.
Sieve
(obsolete) A kind of coarse basket.
Sift
To make a careful examination
Sifted through back issues of the magazine.
Sieve
(colloquial) A person, or their mind, that cannot remember things or is unable to keep secrets.
Sift
To sieve or strain (something).
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Sieve
An intern who lets too many non-serious cases into the emergency room.
Sift
To separate or scatter (things) as if by sieving.
Sieve
(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.
Sift
To examine (something) carefully.
Sieve
To strain, sift or sort using a sieve.
Sift
(archaic or old-fashioned) To scrutinise (someone or something) carefully so as to find the truth.
Sieve
(sports) To concede; let in
Sift
To carefully go through a set of objects, or a collection of information, in order to find something.
Sieve
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.
Sift
To move data records up in memory to make space to insert further records.
Sieve
A kind of coarse basket.
Sift
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.
Sieve
A strainer for separating lumps from powdered material or grading particles
Sift
To separate or part as if with a sieve.
When yellow sands are sifted from below,The glittering billows give a golden show.
Sieve
Examine in order to test suitability;
Screen these samples
Screen the job applicants
Sift
To examine critically or minutely; to scrutinize.
Sifting the very utmost sentence and syllable.
Opportunity I here have hadTo try thee, sift thee.
Let him but narrowly sift his ideas.
Sieve
Check and sort carefully;
Sift the information
Sift
Move as if through a sieve;
The soldiers sifted through the woods
Sieve
Separate by passing through a sieve or other straining device to separate out coarser elements;
Sift the flour
Sift
Separate by passing through a sieve or other straining device to separate out coarser elements;
Sift the flour
Sieve
Distinguish and separate out;
Sift through the job candidates
Sift
Check and sort carefully;
Sift the information
Sift
Distinguish and separate out;
Sift through the job candidates