Main Difference
The main difference between Sieve and Mesh is that the Sieve is a tool for breaking or separation of solid materials and Mesh is a material of connected strands of metal, fiber, or other flexible or ductile materials.
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Sieve
A sieve, or sifter, is a device for separating wanted elements from unwanted material or for characterizing the particle size distribution of a sample, typically using a woven screen such as a mesh or net or metal. 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 is a form of sieve used to separate solids from liquid.
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Mesh
A mesh is a barrier made of connected strands of metal, fiber, or other flexible or ductile materials. A mesh is similar to a web or a net in that it has many attached or woven strands.
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Sieve (noun)
A device with a separate, in a granular material, larger particles from smaller ones, or to separate solid objects from a liquid.
“Use the sieve to get the pasta from the water.”
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Sieve (noun)
A process, physical or abstract, that arrives at a final result by filtering out unwanted pieces of input from a larger starting set of input.
“Given a list of consecutive numbers starting at 1, the Sieve of Eratosthenes algorithm will find all of the prime numbers.”
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Sieve (noun)
A kind of coarse basket.
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Sieve (noun)
A person, or their mind, that cannot remember things or is unable to keep secrets.
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Sieve (noun)
A collection of morphisms in a category whose codomain is a certain fixed object of that category, which collection is closed under pre-composition by any morphism in the category.
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Sieve (verb)
To strain, sift or sort using a sieve.
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Sieve (verb)
To concede; let in
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Mesh (noun)
A structure made of connected strands of metal, fiber, or other flexible/ductile material, with evenly spaced openings between them.
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Mesh (noun)
The opening or space enclosed by the threads of a net between knot and knot, or the threads enclosing such a space.
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Mesh (noun)
The engagement of the teeth of wheels, or of a wheel and rack.
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Mesh (noun)
A measure of fineness (particle size) of ground material. A powder that passes through a sieve having 300 openings per linear inch but does not pass 400 openings per linear inch is said to be -300 +400 mesh.
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Mesh (noun)
A polygon mesh.
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Mesh (verb)
To connect together by interlocking, as gears do.
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Mesh (verb)
To fit in; to come together harmoniously.
“The music meshed well with the visuals in that film.”
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Mesh (verb)
To catch in a mesh.