{{Short description|Tool for separation of solid materials by particle size}}{{About|the tool}}{{Redirect|Sift}}{{Redirect|Drainer|the music culture|Drain Gang}}{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2015}}(File:Laboratory sieves BMK.jpg|thumb|right|Metal laboratory sieves)File:Ami shakushi.Scoop.jpg|thumb|An ami shakushi, a Japanese ladle or scoop that may be used to remove small drops of batter during the frying of tempura tempura(File:Gezer (6).png|thumb|ancient sieve)A sieve, fine mesh strainer, or sift, is a tool used for separating wanted elements from unwanted material or for controlling the particle size distribution of a sample, using a screen such as a woven mesh or net or perforated sheet material.BOOK, Ruhlman, Michael, Bourdain, Anthony, The Elements of Cooking: Translating the Chef’s Craft for Every Kitchen,books.google.com/books?id=9WXclAEACAAJ&pg=PA278, 2007, Simon and Schuster, 978-1-4391-7252-0, 216, The word sift derives from sieve.In cooking, a sifter is used to separate and break up clumps in dry ingredients such as flour, as well as to aerate and combine them. A strainer (see Colander), meanwhile, is a form of sieve used to separate suspended solids from a liquid by filtration.
Industrial strainer
Some industrial strainers available are simplex basket strainers, duplex basket strainers, T-strainers and Y-strainers. Simple basket strainers are used to protect valuable or sensitive equipment in systems that are meant to be shut down temporarily. Some commonly used strainers are bell mouth strainers, foot valve strainers,WEB,industrialstrainer.com/eaton-hayward-strainers/, Industrial Strainers - Liquid Basket Strainer - Eaton Strainers, industrialstrainer.com, basket strainers. Most processing industries (mainly pharmaceutical, coatings and liquid food industries) will opt for a self-cleaning strainer instead of a basket strainer or a simplex strainer due to limitations of simple filtration systems. The self-cleaning strainers or filters are more efficient and provide an automatic filtration solution.WEB,www.russellfinex.com/en/news-and-events/replacing-bag-filters-with-russell-filters/, Replacing Bag Filters with Self Cleaning Filters - Russell Finex, Russell, Finex, www.russellfinex.com,
Sieving
Sieving is a simple technique for separating particles of different sizes. A sieve such as used for sifting flour has very small holes. Coarse particles are separated or broken up by grinding against one another and the screen openings. Depending upon the types of particles to be separated, sieves with different types of holes are used. Sieves are also used to separate stones from sand. Sieving plays an important role in food industries where sieves (often vibrating) are used to prevent the contamination of the product by foreign bodies. The design of the industrial sieve is of primary importance here.WEB,www.powderprocess.net/Checking_Powder_sieve.html, Powder Checking - Vibrating sieve - Vibrating sifters - PowderProcess.net, www.powderprocess.net, Triage sieving refers to grouping people according to their severity of injury.
Wooden sieves
(File:Wooden sieve one eighth mesh.PNG|thumb|right|A wooden mesh in which the withes were one eighth of an inch wide and set the same distance apart. This would be used on an English farm of the Victorian era to sift grain, removing dust and soil.)The mesh in a wooden sieve might be made from wood or wicker. Use of wood to avoid contamination is important when the sieve is used for sampling.BOOK, B. De Vivo, Harvey Belkin, Annamaria Lima, Environmental Geochemistry: Site Characterization, Data Analysis and Case Histories: Site Characterization, Data Analysis and Case Histories,books.google.com/books?id=FBn0iv8ILHIC&pg=PA84, 2008, Elsevier, 978-0-08-055895-0, 84, Henry Stephens, in his Book of the Farm, advised that the withes of a wooden riddle or sieve be made from fir or willow with American elm being best. The rims would be made of fir, oak or, especially, beech.BOOK, 414â€“416, The Book of the Farm, 1, Henry Stephens, W. Blackwood, 1852,
US standard test sieve series
A sieve analysis (or gradation test) is a practice or procedure used (commonly used in civil engineering or sedimentology) to assess the particle size distribution (also called gradation) of a granular material. Sieve sizes used in combinations of four to eight sieves.{|class=wikitablearchive.org/details/pocketref00glov, ! rowspan=2|Tyler! rowspan=2|Sieve! colspan=2|Sieve opening
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Other types

Chinois, or conical sieve used as a strainer, also sometimes used like a food mill
Cocktail strainer, a bar accessory
Colander, a (typically) bowl-shaped sieve used as a strainer in cooking
Flour sifter or bolter, used in flour production and baking
Graduated sieves, used to separate varying small sizes of material, often soil, rock or minerals
Mesh strainer, or just “strainer”, usually consisting of a fine metal mesh screen on a metal frame

Laundry strainer, to drain boiling water from laundry removed from a Wash copper, usually with a wooden frame to facilitate manual handling with hot contents

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Riddle, used for soil
Spider, used in Chinese cooking
Tamis, also known as a drum sieve
Tea strainer, specifically intended for use when making tea
Zaru, or bamboo sieve, used in Japanese cooking

Other uses

“Sieve” is a common term used in trash-talk referring to a goaltender in ice hockey who lets in too many goalsWEB,uwbadgers.com/sports/2016/8/12/sieve-chant.aspx?id=1191, Sieve Chant, uwbadgers.com, September 9, 2020,
“Leaks like a sieve” is an English language idiom to describe a container that has multiple leaks, or, by allegory, an organization whose confidential information is routinely disclosed to the public.

See also
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Cheesecloth
Cloth filter
Filtration
Gold panning
Gyratory equipment
Mechanical screening
Mesh (scale)
Molecular sieve
Separation process
Soil gradation
Water filter

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