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To carry water in a sieve means to attempt to do something impossible or futile. Just like water would leak out of a sieve, the effort put into the task ends up being wasted because it cannot be accomplished successfully.
The phrase "carrying water in a sieve" is an idiom that refers to attempting a futile or impossible task. It suggests that the effort being made is pointless because the outcome will not be successful, similar to trying to carry water in a sieve, which cannot hold water.
It refers to a pointless action. Another similar British idiom is " carrying coals to Newcastle". It means: You are doing something that will have no positive affect. you are wasting your time! Obviousely you cannot really carry water in a sieve, so when someone says that, they are basically saying that you are not acheiving anything.
You can sift flour using a sieve.
the sieve plate is a filter for the water that enters the "Water Vascular System" in Echinoderms.
Water can pass through a sieve because the holes or mesh in the sieve are larger than the water molecules, allowing the water to flow through while trapping larger solid particles. The sieve acts as a filter, separating the water from any solid materials that are too big to pass through.
The sieve tube elements are specialized elongated cells in the phloem that connect end to end forming a tube. The main function of this tube is to transport nutrition in the form of carbohydrates. Sieve cells have no nucleus, ribosomes and cytoplasm, meanin they cannot carry out primary metabolic activities. The companion cells, which are closely associated with the sieve tube elements, carry out the their metabolic functions.
a sieve
A sieve is used when you are cooking something and you need to get rid of the lumps, such as when you are making a cake, you often sieve the flour before adding it to the mixture so that it is not lumpy. A sieve can also be used when you are cooking something like vegetables and want to get rid of the water you have boiled them in. You would hold the sieve over the sink and then pour the vegetables and water into the sieve and you would be left with just the vegetables because the water would go through the little holes in the sieve and down the sink.
A fine sieve.
No, you cannot separate salt and water with a sieve because salt dissolves in water. A sieve is used to separate solid particles from liquids or powders based on their size but cannot separate dissolved substances like salt in water.