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sieve meaning in Sinhala

සලනවා salanawā

/sɪv/

sieve in Sinhala: සලනවා (salanawā). 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.

Sinhala words for sieve

to sieve
සලනවා salanawā

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.

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Questions about sieve in Sinhala

What is the meaning of sieve in Sinhala?
Sieve in Sinhala is සලනවා (salanawā).
sieve යන්නෙහි සිංහල තේරුම කුමක්ද?
Sieve: සලනවා (salanawā).
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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Sinhala words from Wiktionary's Sinhala entries whose English meaning is “sieve”: සලනවා. English meanings adapted from Wiktionary: sieve (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the Sinhala words and English meanings and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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