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Lane vs Sieve - What's the difference?

lane | sieve |

As nouns the difference between lane and sieve

is that lane is a narrow passageway between fences, walls, hedges or trees while sieve is a device to separate, in a granular material, larger particles from smaller ones, or to separate solid objects from a liquid.

As a proper noun Lane

is {{surname|topographic|from=Middle English}} for someone who lived in a lane.

As a verb sieve is

to strain, sift or sort using a sieve.

lane

English

(wikipedia lane)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A narrow passageway between fences, walls, hedges or trees
  • A lengthwise division of roadway intended for a single line of vehicles
  • A similar division of a racetrack to keep runners apart
  • A course designated for ships or aircraft
  • (card games) An empty space in the tableau, formed by the removal of an entire row of cards.

    • Derived terms

    * laneway * memory lane * shipping lane * swimlane

    See also

    * alley * alleyway * carriageway * direction * gennel, ginnel, guinnel, gunnel, jennel * gitty, jitty * side * passage * roadway * snicket * wynd

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    Anagrams

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    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

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    Verb

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