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Pervious vs Sievelike - What's the difference?

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Pervious is a related term of sievelike.


As adjectives the difference between pervious and sievelike

is that pervious is admitting passage; capable of being penetrated by another body or substance; permeable while sievelike is resembling a sieve; thus, having holes through which fluids can pass.

pervious

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Admitting passage; capable of being penetrated by another body or substance; permeable.
    • a pervious soil
  • * Alexander Pope
    • [Doors] pervious to winds, and open every way.
  • Accepting of new ideas.
  • Capable of being penetrated, or seen through, by physical or mental vision.
  • * (Jeremy Taylor)
    • God, whose secrets are pervious to no eye.
  • (obsolete) Capable of penetrating or pervading.
    • (Prior)
  • (zoology) open; perforate, as applied to the nostrils of birds

    • Antonyms

    * impervious

    See also

    * permeable * porous

    Anagrams

    * *

    sievelike

    English

    Alternative forms

    *sieve-like

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Resembling a sieve; thus, having holes through which fluids can pass
    • a sievelike membrane

    Synonyms

    * ethmoid, ethmoidal