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Filtering vs Sieving - What's the difference?

filtering | sieving |

As verbs the difference between filtering and sieving

is that filtering is present participle of lang=en while sieving is present participle of lang=en.

As nouns the difference between filtering and sieving

is that filtering is something that passes through a filter while sieving is the act of passing something through 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

    sieving

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of passing something through a sieve.
  • Material that has passed through a sieve.
  • * 2008 , D. K. Maheshwari, Potential Microorganisms For Sustainable Agriculture (page 79)
    • The sievings retained on different sieves are washed into separate Petri dishes for further observations or purification by sucrose centrifugation.

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