What's the difference between range and sieve?

Range


Definition:

  • (n.) To set in a row, or in rows; to place in a regular line or lines, or in ranks; to dispose in the proper order; to rank; as, to range soldiers in line.
  • (n.) To place (as a single individual) among others in a line, row, or order, as in the ranks of an army; -- usually, reflexively and figuratively, (in the sense) to espouse a cause, to join a party, etc.
  • (n.) To separate into parts; to sift.
  • (n.) To dispose in a classified or in systematic order; to arrange regularly; as, to range plants and animals in genera and species.
  • (n.) To rove over or through; as, to range the fields.
  • (n.) To sail or pass in a direction parallel to or near; as, to range the coast.
  • (n.) To be native to, or to live in; to frequent.
  • (v. i.) To rove at large; to wander without restraint or direction; to roam.
  • (v. i.) To have range; to change or differ within limits; to be capable of projecting, or to admit of being projected, especially as to horizontal distance; as, the temperature ranged through seventy degrees Fahrenheit; the gun ranges three miles; the shot ranged four miles.
  • (v. i.) To be placed in order; to be ranked; to admit of arrangement or classification; to rank.
  • (v. i.) To have a certain direction; to correspond in direction; to be or keep in a corresponding line; to trend or run; -- often followed by with; as, the front of a house ranges with the street; to range along the coast.
  • (v. i.) To be native to, or live in, a certain district or region; as, the peba ranges from Texas to Paraguay.
  • (v.) A series of things in a line; a row; a rank; as, a range of buildings; a range of mountains.
  • (v.) An aggregate of individuals in one rank or degree; an order; a class.
  • (v.) The step of a ladder; a rung.
  • (v.) A kitchen grate.
  • (v.) An extended cooking apparatus of cast iron, set in brickwork, and affording conveniences for various ways of cooking; also, a kind of cooking stove.
  • (v.) A bolting sieve to sift meal.
  • (v.) A wandering or roving; a going to and fro; an excursion; a ramble; an expedition.
  • (v.) That which may be ranged over; place or room for excursion; especially, a region of country in which cattle or sheep may wander and pasture.
  • (v.) Extent or space taken in by anything excursive; compass or extent of excursion; reach; scope; discursive power; as, the range of one's voice, or authority.
  • (v.) The region within which a plant or animal naturally lives.
  • (v.) The horizontal distance to which a shot or other projectile is carried.
  • (v.) Sometimes, less properly, the trajectory of a shot or projectile.
  • (v.) A place where shooting, as with cannons or rifles, is practiced.
  • (v.) In the public land system of the United States, a row or line of townships lying between two successive meridian lines six miles apart.
  • (v.) See Range of cable, below.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Arda Turan's deflected long-range strike puts Atlético back in control.
  • (2) The issue of the Schizophrenia Bulletin is devoted to articles representing this full range of conceptual and empirical work on first-episode psychosis.
  • (3) Open field behaviors and isolation-induced aggression were reduced by anxiolytics, at doses which may be within the sedative-hypnotic range.
  • (4) The PSB dioxygenase system displayed a narrow substrate range: none of 18 sulphonated or non-sulphonated analogues of PSB showed significant substrate-dependent O2 uptake.
  • (5) When the data correlating DHT with protein synthesis using both labelling techniques were combined, the curves were parallel and a strong correlation was noted between DHT and protein synthesis over a wide range of values (P less than 0.001).
  • (6) Finally the advanced automation of the equipment allowed weekly the evaluation of catecholamines and the whole range of their known metabolites in 36 urine samples.
  • (7) There were 12 males, 6 females, with mean age of 55.1 yrs (range 39-77 yrs).
  • (8) Peak Expiratory Flow and Forced Expiratory Mean Flows in the ranges 0-25%, 25-50% and 50-75% of Forced Vital Capacity were significantly reduced in animals exposed to gasoline exhaust fumes, whereas the group exposed to ethanol exhaust fumes did not differ from the control group.
  • (9) In a double-blind, crossover-designed study, 9 male subjects (age range: 18-25 years) received 25 mg orally, four times per day of either S or an identically-appearing placebo (P) 2 d prior to and during HA.
  • (10) Polygraphic recordings during sleep were performed on 18 elderly persons (age range: 64-100 years).
  • (11) Matthias Müller, VW’s chief executive, said: “In light of the wide range of challenges we are currently facing, we are satisfied overall with the start we have made to what will undoubtedly be a demanding fiscal year 2016.
  • (12) In seven girls with early adrenarche, plasma concentrations of DHEA were in the upper range of normal values, whereas T levels were within the normal range.
  • (13) In the patients who have died or have been classified as slowly progressive the serum 19-9 changes ranged from +13% to +707%.
  • (14) This promotion of repetitive activity by the introduction of additional potassium channels occurred up to an "optimal" value beyond which a further increase in paranodal potassium permeability narrowed the range of currents with a repetitive response.
  • (15) Displacement of a colinear line over the same range without an offset evoked little, if any, response.
  • (16) I wish to clarify that for the period 1998 to 2002 I was employed by Fifa to work on a wide range of matters relating to football,” Platini wrote.
  • (17) The technique resolved chromosomes in the size range of 100 kb-1 Mb.
  • (18) Achilles tendon overuse injuries exist as a spectrum of diseases ranging from inflammation of the paratendinous tissue (paratenonitis), to structural degeneration of the tendon (tendinosis), and finally tendon rupture.
  • (19) We report the treatment of 44 boys with constitutional delay of growth and puberty (CDGP) at a mean chronological age of 14.3 years (range, 12.4-17.1) and bone age of 12.1 years (range, 9.1-15.0).
  • (20) The average follow-up was 3.5 years (range 2-5.5 years).

Sieve


Definition:

  • (n.) A utensil for separating the finer and coarser parts of a pulverized or granulated substance from each other. It consist of a vessel, usually shallow, with the bottom perforated, or made of hair, wire, or the like, woven in meshes.
  • (n.) A kind of coarse basket.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The test is based on the ability of larvae to freely migrate through selected mesh sizes of nylon sieves and the reduced ability of larvae to migrate after preincubation with, and in the presence of, substances that inhibit or reduce larval motility.
  • (2) The described procedure has the advantage of not requiring either molecular sieve or affinity chromatography for purification of homogenous CRP from human sera.
  • (3) When the capacitation medium was supplemented with follicular fluid, the [3H]sterols were bound to HDL's and to the albumin fraction; when the latter fraction was analysed by molecular sieve chromatography, 60-70% of the radioactivity eluted in fractions with a mean molecular weight corresponding to that of human serum albumin.
  • (4) When deformability was measured by filtration through 3-mum polycarbonate sieves, marked decreases in deformability were found in complement-coated erythrocytes.
  • (5) Rat liver cathepsin D (EC 3.4.23.5) was purified using precipitation technique, ion exchange chromatography, molecular sieve chromatography and isoelectric focusing.
  • (6) Analysis of the CNBr peptides on an HPLC sieving column confirmed that the electrophoretically abnormal peptides were of a higher molecular weight than were control peptides.
  • (7) The half-life of the solubilized oxidoreductase stored at 2-4 degrees C in the presence of 25% glycerol at pH 8.6 is approximately 30 h. The oxidoreductase contains a flavoprotein identifiable by its fluorescence spectrum for FAD which binds weakly to concanavalin A-Sepharose and elutes from gel sieving columns at a molecular weight range of approximately 51,000.
  • (8) passing through a 1.18 mm sieve during wet sieving) from the reticulo-rumen were negatively related to dimensions of particles, with greater ease of outflow for legume than for grass particles of the same length or diameter.
  • (9) Its molecular weight, determined by molecular sieving, was close to 36 kDa.
  • (10) The degree of fragmentation was judged first by eye during the experiment and then by both microscopy and sieving of the debris.
  • (11) Further purification of the 50K collagen by molecular sieve and high-performance liquid chromatography resulted in the isolation of two-non-disulfide-bonded polypeptides, 50K-A and 50K-B, which were susceptible to several neutral proteases, including bacterial collagenase.
  • (12) To demonstrate this point, the assay was applied to the protein fractions recovered from a molecular sieve column.
  • (13) The sieving of chylomicrons, remnants and other lipoproteins by the sinusoidal endothelium of the liver may thus play an important role in lipid transport, affecting the balance of various lipoprotein moieties which in turn may affect the relationship of dietary lipids to various hyperlipidaemias and atherosclerosis.
  • (14) Porcine cerebral microvessels were isolated by differential sieving and centrifugation and were characterized by microscopic examination and marker enzyme enrichment (gamma-glutamyltransferase; EC 2.3.2.2).
  • (15) Dextran sieving studies were performed before and after intravenous administration of indomethacin to control rats and to nephritic rats with heavy proteinuria.
  • (16) Cells dissociated by trypsinization and sieving are metabolically more active than cells separated mechanically (sieving only).
  • (17) Mannitol infusion resulted in a significant increase in urine volume and fractional excretion of sodium, but glomerular filtration rate, albumin excretion rate, and the sieving coefficient for albumin remained stable.
  • (18) The flours are strained through a 425 microns sieve, then pelletized and measured.
  • (19) The Mr of agarase IIb was 63 000 as determined by analytical ultra-centrifugation, polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis in sodium dodecyl sulphate and molecular sieve chromatography on Sepharose 4B in 6M Gdn-HCl.
  • (20) The IL-1 induced chondrocyte PLA2 has a molecular weight of approximately 10 kDa, as determined by molecular sieve G75 column chromatography.