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sieve in Arabic

غِرْبَال ḡirbāl

/sɪv/

sieve in Arabic: غِرْبَال (ḡirbāl), مِصْفاة (miṣfāh), صَفَّى (ṣaffā), غَرْبَلَ (ḡarbala). In English, sieve means a device with a mesh, grate, or otherwise perforated bottom to separate, in a granular material, larger particles from smaller ones, or to separate solid objects from a liquid.

Arabic words for sieve

device to separate larger objects from smaller ones or from liquids
غِرْبَال ḡirbāl, مِصْفاة miṣfāh
to strain, sift or sort using a sieve
صَفَّى ṣaffā, غَرْبَلَ ḡarbala, رَشَحَ rašaḥa

English meaning of sieve

  1. noun A device with a mesh, grate, or otherwise perforated bottom to separate, in a granular material, larger particles from smaller ones, or to separate solid objects from a liquid.
  2. noun 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.
  3. noun A kind of coarse basket.
  4. noun A person, or their mind, that cannot remember things or is unable to keep secrets.

Full definition of sieve

sieve in a sentence

  • Near-synonyms: sifter, strainer, temse
  • Use the sieve to get the pasta from the water.
  • Given a list of consecutive numbers starting at 1, the Sieve of Eratosthenes algorithm will find all of the prime numbers.

Synonyms of sieve

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Questions about sieve in Arabic

What is the meaning of sieve in Arabic?
Sieve in Arabic is غِرْبَال (ḡirbāl), مِصْفاة (miṣfāh), صَفَّى (ṣaffā), غَرْبَلَ (ḡarbala).
ما معنى كلمة sieve؟
Sieve: غِرْبَال (ḡirbāl), مِصْفاة (miṣfāh), صَفَّى (ṣaffā), غَرْبَلَ (ḡarbala).
What does sieve mean in English?
Sieve means a device with a mesh, grate, or otherwise perforated bottom to separate, in a granular material, larger particles from smaller ones, or to separate solid objects from a liquid.

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