sieve out

• Verbo frasal que significa separar o eliminar algo de una mezcla pasándolo por un colador o tamiz, o extraer ciertos elementos de un grupo.

A phrasal verb meaning to separate or remove something from a mixture by passing it through a sieve, or to extract specific elements from a group.

incontable · transitivo · phrasal, separable

1. Separate by filteringformal

   To remove unwanted elements from a mixture by passing it through a sieve or similar process.

   Separar mediante tamizado

   • The chef sieved out the lumps from the flour.
   • They sieved out the impurities from the sand.
   • The technician sieved out the larger particles from the sample.

   Sinónimosfilter outscreen outseparate outwinnow out

2. Selectively removeinformal

   To identify and remove unwanted or irrelevant items from a group.

   seleccionar eliminando

   • The committee sieved out the weakest applications.
   • We need to sieve out the incorrect data from the report.
   • The editor sieved out the errors from the manuscript.

   Sinónimoseliminatefilter outscreen outseparate outweed outwinnow out

   Antónimoskeepretain

Verbo basesieve