Sieves is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for SIEVES in dictionary:

VERB:
• SIEVE, to pass through a strainer
• put (a food substance or other material) through a sieve
• remove (unwanted items)
• examine in detail
NOUN:
• a utensil consisting of a wire or plastic mesh held in a frame, used for straining solids from liquids, for separating coarser from finer particles, or for reducing soft solids to a pulp
• used figuratively with reference to the fact that a sieve does not hold all its contents
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to pass through a sieve (a utensil for separating the coarse parts from the fine parts of loose matter)

Words related to SIEVES

sieve8 sieved10 sieving11

How to use SIEVES in a sentence

• The clay, from Dorsetshire and Devonshire, is mixed with water, and in this state is passed through fine sieves to separate the grosser particles.
• Lierre and Waelhem and Duffel were like sieves dripping blood.
• For this crime they were doomed in Hades to pour water everlastingly into sieves.
• Spades and sieves were from that moment forbidden utensils.
• Next, if the first, like sieves, take in ideas of all kinds without retaining any, the latter compare them and assimilate all the good.
• This they apply as an emblem of endless and ineffectual labour, like the stone of Sisyphus, and the sieves of the Danaides.
• The size of the grains is determined by sieves, made by piercing round holes in thin plates of brass.
• This machine with its shaking sieves and blast of air makes a great clatter and fuss.
• This is a box fitted with shaking sieves down which the cacao beans pass in a current of air.
• There were several basketware sieves, evidently home made, and various bottles lying around the place.
• The coarser baskets, which are constructed and shaped to suit the service for which they are employed, are used as sieves and for conveying corn and fruit from the farms.
• The sieves are also different, and the work is less rapidly done than if done by the former.
• There are baskets proper, hampers, cradles, shields, quivers, sieves, etc.
• It is apparent that baskets of open construction were employed as sieves in pre-Columbian as well as in post-Columbian times.
• Butel-Dumont describes the sieves and winnowing fans of the Louisiana Indians.
• They would probably ere long take to clearing out any obstruction in their sieves if they found them getting choked.
• What could it matter to them whether the sieves got full or no? They were not paid for filling them.
• See, here is a cargo of sieves with which some poor misguided trader overwhelmed the market.
• It is worth a note that this art of going to sea in sieves, which Shakspere has referred to in his drama, seems to have been peculiar to this set of witches.
• The liquor passed through close cane sieves, pretty thick, of a deep red color, and a very bad smell, is received into coppers.
• The ground material is put on the top sieve of the nest of sieves, and sifted.
• The sieves used consist of a nest of two sieves with holes drilled in sheet copper.

Similar words containing SIEVE without suffix s

sieve8 sieved10 sievert10 sieverts11 sievelike16 millisievert17 millisieverts18

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