| shorebird | | |
| n. (animal) | 1. limicoline bird, shore bird, shorebird | any of numerous wading birds that frequent mostly seashores and estuaries. |
| ~ wader, wading bird | any of many long-legged birds that wade in water in search of food. |
| ~ charadrii, suborder charadrii | shorebirds: plovers; sandpipers; avocets; phalaropes; coursers; stone curlews. |
| ~ plover | any of numerous chiefly shorebirds of relatively compact build having straight bills and large pointed wings; closely related to the sandpipers. |
| ~ sandpiper | any of numerous usually small wading birds having a slender bill and piping call; closely related to the plovers. |
| ~ aphriza virgata, surfbird | sandpiper-like shorebird of Pacific coasts of North America and South America. |
| ~ woodcock | game bird of the sandpiper family that resembles a snipe. |
| ~ snipe | Old or New World straight-billed game bird of the sandpiper family; of marshy areas; similar to the woodcocks. |
| ~ curlew | large migratory shorebirds of the sandpiper family; closely related to woodcocks but having a down-curved bill. |
| ~ godwit | large wading bird that resembles a curlew; has a long slightly upturned bill. |
| ~ himantopus stilt, long-legs, longlegs, stilt plover, stiltbird, stilt | long-legged three-toed black-and-white wading bird of inland ponds and marshes or brackish lagoons. |
| ~ australian stilt, stilt | long-legged three-toed wading bird of brackish marshes of Australia. |
| ~ avocet | long-legged web-footed black-and-white shorebird with slender upward-curving bill. |
| ~ oyster catcher, oystercatcher | black-and-white shorebird with stout legs and bill; feed on oysters etc.. |
| ~ phalarope | small sandpiper-like shorebird having lobate toes and being good swimmers; breed in the Arctic and winter in the tropics. |
| ~ glareole, pratincole | Old World shorebird with long pointed wings and short legs; closely related to the coursers. |
| ~ courser | swift-footed terrestrial plover-like bird of southern Asia and Africa; related to the pratincoles. |
| ~ burhinus oedicnemus, stone curlew, thick-knee | large-headed large-eyed crepuscular or nocturnal shorebird of the Old World and tropical America having a thickened knee joint. |
| sieve | | |
| n. (artifact) | 1. screen, sieve | a strainer for separating lumps from powdered material or grading particles. |
| ~ riddle | a coarse sieve (as for gravel). |
| ~ sifter | a household sieve (as for flour). |
| ~ strainer | a filter to retain larger pieces while smaller pieces and liquids pass through. |
| v. (social) | 2. screen, screen out, sieve, sort | examine in order to test suitability.; "screen these samples"; "screen the job applicants" |
| ~ choose, pick out, select, take | pick out, select, or choose from a number of alternatives.; "Take any one of these cards"; "Choose a good husband for your daughter"; "She selected a pair of shoes from among the dozen the salesgirl had shown her" |
| v. (contact) | 3. sieve, sift | check and sort carefully.; "sift the information" |
| ~ analyse, analyze, examine, study, canvass, canvas | consider in detail and subject to an analysis in order to discover essential features or meaning.; "analyze a sonnet by Shakespeare"; "analyze the evidence in a criminal trial"; "analyze your real motives" |
| v. (contact) | 4. sieve, sift, strain | separate by passing through a sieve or other straining device to separate out coarser elements.; "sift the flour" |
| ~ separate | divide into components or constituents.; "Separate the wheat from the chaff" |
| ~ rice | sieve so that it becomes the consistency of rice.; "rice the potatoes" |
| ~ resift | sift anew. |
| ~ riddle, screen | separate with a riddle, as grain from chaff. |
| ~ winnow, fan | separate the chaff from by using air currents.; "She stood there winnowing chaff all day in the field" |
| v. (cognition) | 5. sieve, sift | distinguish and separate out.; "sift through the job candidates" |
| ~ choose, pick out, select, take | pick out, select, or choose from a number of alternatives.; "Take any one of these cards"; "Choose a good husband for your daughter"; "She selected a pair of shoes from among the dozen the salesgirl had shown her" |
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