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Sieve vs Filtering - What's the difference?

sieve | filtering |

As nouns the difference between sieve and filtering

is that sieve is a device to separate, in a granular material, larger particles from smaller ones, or to separate solid objects from a liquid while filtering is something that passes through a filter.

As verbs the difference between sieve and filtering

is that sieve is to strain, sift or sort using a sieve while filtering is present participle of lang=en.

sieve

English

(wikipedia sieve)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A device to , 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.
  • 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.
  • * {{quote-web
    • , year = 2010 , author = Luke Mastin , title = 20TH CENTURY MATHEMATICS - ROBINSON AND MATIYASEVICH , site = www.storyofmathematics.com , url = http://www.storyofmathematics.com/20th_robinson.html , accessdate = 2013-09-08 }}
    Among, [sic ] his other achievements, Matiyasevich and his colleague Boris Stechkin also developed an interesting “visual sieve ” for prime numbers, which effectively “crosses out” all the composite numbers, leaving only the primes.
    Given a list of consecutive numbers starting at 1, the Sieve of Eratosthenes algorithm will find all of the prime numbers.
  • (obsolete) A kind of coarse basket.
    • (Simmonds)

    Derived terms

    * * * *

    Verb

    (siev)
  • To strain, sift or sort using a sieve.

    • filtering

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • Something that passes through a filter.
  • * 1819 , Abraham Rees, The Cyclopædia
    • the filterings from the subsoils
  • * 2006 , Christopher Rush, To Travel Hopefully (page 146)
    • Waking up in Langogne in a dim dawn, I felt in a strange sort of way more at home than I'd been for a long time in my own sadly altered version of home, even a year on from her death – especially in the first filterings of daylight

    Synonyms

    * filtrate