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| Domain | Definition |
Industry | Separation of suspended material into fractions according to size with the aid of one or more screens. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | A. Grading in accordance with particle size and shape by means of sieves or screens b. The operation of shaking loose materials in a sieve so that the finer particles pass through the mesh bottom. By using a number of sieves with different meshes, the particles can be graded according to size.Syn:sifting. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: SIEVING |
| Specialty definitions using "SIEVING": fruit purée ♦ mesh number ♦ particle size ♦ retaining mesh. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | The gravy's going to need sieving. (Bridget Jones's Diary; writing credit: Helen Fielding) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| "SIEVING" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 46.15% of the time. "SIEVING" is used about 26 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 46.15% | 12 | 101,599 |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 30.77% | 8 | 124,375 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 15.38% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Noun (proper) | 7.69% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 26 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "SIEVING" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Sieving | Last name | 170 | 54,213 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expression using "SIEVING": sieving of smth.. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "SIEVING": wet-sieving. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
sieving | 12 |
particle sieving | 3 |
sieving machine | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "SIEVING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | غربلة (ridding, screening, sifting). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | soldning (screening, sifting), sining (screening, sifting), sigtning (bolting, screening, sifting). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | sorteren van de verschillende soorten pulp (screening, sifting), uitsorteren (screening, sifting). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | lajittelu (classification, filing, grading, inspection, screening, selection, separation, sifting, sort, sorting). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | tamisage (sieving of smth., sifting of smth.), classage (sifting). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | siebend (sifting). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | κοσκίνισμα (bolting, dockage, riddling, screening, sifting, straining). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | ס ון (filtering, filtration, percolation, sifting, straining, winnowing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | classificazione (classification, sorting). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ievingsay granulométria (aggregate grading, grading, grain-size distribution, screening, sifting), crivagem (screening, sifting), classificação (assortment, classification, filing, ordination, placing, rating, regimentation, tabulation, triage). (various references) просеивать просеивание. (various references) depuración (depuration, purge, purifying, scrubbing), clasificación de pulpa (screening, sifting), clasificación (assortment, classification, filing, label, order, ordering, rating, separation, sort, sorting, table). (various references) silning (screening, sifting). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"SIEVING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: rieving, seijin, Sevigne, Sevigny, sieging, sieveing, sieven, swiving. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "SIEVING" (pronounced si"ving) |
| 4 | -i" v i ng | forgiving, giving, living, misgiving, reliving, thanksgiving, unforgiving. |
| 3 | -v i ng | absolving, achieving, approving, arriving, behaving, believing, braving, calving, caregiving, carving, caving, conceiving, conniving, conserving, craving, curving, deceiving, delving, depriving, deriving, deserving, disapproving, disbelieving, dissolving, diving, driving, earthmoving, engraving, evolving, grieving, halving, having, heaving, improving, interleaving, interweaving, involving, jiving, leaving, lifesaving, loving, misbehaving, moving, observing, paving, perceiving, preserving, proving, raving, receiving, relieving, removing, reserving, resolving, retrieving, reviving, revolving, revving, saving, serving, shaving, shelving, shoving, skydiving, solving, starving, staving, striving, surviving, thieving, thriving, unbelieving, undeserving, unnerving, unswerving, waiving, waving, weaving. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: viseing. | |
| Words within the letters "e-g-i-i-n-s-v" | |
-1 letter: givens, vising. | |
-2 letters: genii, given, gives, ivies, nisei, segni, sengi, singe, veins, vines. | |
-3 letters: egis, engs, gens, gien, gies, gins, give, nevi, nisi, sign, sine, sing, vein, vies, vigs, vine, vise. | |
-4 letters: eng, ens, gen, gie, gin, ins, seg, sei, sen, sin, veg, vie, vig, vis. | |
-5 letters: en, es, in, is, ne, si. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-g-i-i-n-s-v" | |
+1 letter: devising, inveighs, misgiven, revising, veilings, veinings, viewings. | |
+2 letters: divesting, genitives, ingestive, inveigles, investing, prevising, scrieving, servicing, shivering, shrieving, silvering, slivering, sniveling, swiveling, vicinages. | |
+3 letters: disserving, envisaging, estivating, evanishing, evildoings, ingressive, inveighers, inveiglers, lifesaving, livingness, negativism, negativist, novelising, restriving, revisiting, shriveling, snivelling, swivelling, televising, timesaving, unveilings, versifying, vertigines, vesicating, vigilances, vigilantes, vignettist, vinegarish. | |
+4 letters: advertising, aestivating, beshivering, caregivings, designative, desilvering, discovering, disheveling, dissevering, enravishing, envisioning, ingressives, instigative, invaginates, investigate, invigilates, invigorates, levigations, lifesavings, longevities, misaverring, misbehaving, moviegoings, negativisms, negativists, overfishing, overissuing, pulverising, reinvesting, reservicing, resilvering, shivareeing, shrivelling, sovietizing, supervising, surveilling, timeserving, vaginitides, vainglories, vertiginous, vignettists, virginities, vivisecting. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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