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sieve in Persian

الک alak

/sɪv/

sieve in Persian: الک (alak), پرویزن (parvizan), غربال (ġarbâl), سرند (sarand). 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.

Persian words for sieve

device to separate larger objects from smaller ones or from liquids
الک alak, پرویزن parvizan, غربال ġarbâl, سرند sarand, بیزه bize

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 Persian

What is the meaning of sieve in Persian?
Sieve in Persian is الک (alak), پرویزن (parvizan), غربال (ġarbâl), سرند (sarand).
معنی sieve چیست؟
Sieve: الک (alak), پرویزن (parvizan), غربال (ġarbâl), سرند (sarand).
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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