Definition

1. Noun:

   • Sieve; Screen: A tool, typically circular and shallow, woven from bamboo or made of metal with a mesh or perforated surface, used to separate finer particles from coarser ones, or to clean grains by removing husks and debris.
   • Screen (in machinery): The perforated or meshed component within a screening machine used to sort loose materials like grains, coal, or gravel by size.

2. Verb:

   • To sieve; To screen; To sift: The action of using a sieve or screen to separate, clean, or classify granular materials by size or quality.

Usage Examples

• Noun:

  • Bà dùng cái sàng để làm sạch gạo. (She uses a sieve to clean the rice.)
  • Máy nghiền đá có một sàng lọc cỡ hạt. (The rock crusher has a screen for sorting particle sizes.)

• Verb:

  • Người nông dân sàng thóc để loại bỏ trấu. (The farmer sieves the paddy to remove the husks.)
  • Công nhân sàng than trước khi đưa vào lò. (The workers screen the coal before putting it into the furnace.)

Advanced Usage

• "sàng lọc": to screen, to filter, to select. Often used in both literal and figurative contexts (e.g., screening candidates, filtering information).
  • Quy trình sàng lọc hồ sơ rất kỹ lưỡng. (The application screening process is very thorough.)

Variants and Related Words

• Sàng gạo (v): To sieve/winnow rice. A common specific action.

  • Công việc sàng gạo thường được làm thủ công. (The work of winnowing rice is often done manually.)

• Cái sàng (n): The sieve (using the classifier "cái").

Synonyms

• Noun: Sieve, screen, riddle.
• Verb: To sieve, to sift, to screen, to riddle, to winnow (specifically for grains using air).

Related Idioms

• Lọt sàng xuống nia: Literally "to fall through the sieve into the winnowing basket." An idiom describing a situation where someone or something escapes one problem or selection process only to fall into another similar one, or to emphasize that something is inevitable.
  • Hắn trốn được cảnh sát nhưng cuối cùng lọt sàng xuống nia, bị bắt bởi một nhóm khác. (He escaped the police but finally fell out of the frying pan into the fire, getting caught by another group.)

1. danh từ, động từ sieve, screen
   • sàng gạo
     to screen rice