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Sile

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
  1. Sile
    A sieve with fine meshes.
  2. Sile
    (Zoöl) A young or small herring.
  3. Sile
    Filth; sediment.
  4. Sile
    To drop; to flow; to fall.
  5. Sile
    To strain, as fresh milk.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  1. sile
    To strain, as milk; pass through a strainer or anything similar; filter.
  2. sile
    To flow down; drop; fall; sink.
  3. sile
    To settle down; compose or calm one's self.
  4. sile
    To pass; go.
  5. sile
    To boil gently; simmer.
  6. (n) sile
    A sieve.
  7. (n) sile
    A strainer or colander for liquids.
  8. (n) sile
    That which is sifted or strained; hence, settlings; sediment; filth.
  9. (n) sile
    Same as sill.
  10. (n) sile
    A dialectal variant of soil.
  11. (n) sile
    A young herring.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
  1. (v.t) Sile
    sīl (prov.) to strain
  2. (n) Sile
    a sieve, a strainer or colander
Etymology

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary Akin to Sw. sila, to strain, sil, sieve, G. sielen, to draw away or lead off water. √151a. See Silt

Usage in the news

Yi Siling Wins Games' First Gold Medal In Women's 10m Air Rifle . foxnews.com

Yi Siling of China is the winner of the first gold medal of the London 2012 Olympics, having captured victory in the women's 10 meter air rifle final. foxnews.com

Residents in the Siles neighborhood of Lower Southampton, from Wood Road to Brook Avenue on the north side of East Bristol Road, were advised to boil all water. abclocal.go.com

This past spring, guerilla knitter Sile (Gaelic spelling for "Sheila") Convery led the stealth charge in making an eight-foot "T" cozy for the "THERE" part of Berkeley's "HERE/THERE" sculpture on Martin Luther King Jr Way. eastbayexpress.com

Sile Maigari lost his sight to river blindness forty years ago. globalpost.com

Sile is one of the 300,000 who are already blinded by the disease in Africa. globalpost.com

Kenyan CUs Succeed Despite Unrest October 1, 2008 Editor's note: Watch WOCCU's Erick Sile explain Kenyan CU development and detail the post-election unrest that affected much of the country. creditunionmagazine.com

Usage in scientific papers

Siles Molina, Exchange Leavitt path algebras and stable rank, J.
The matrix type of purely infinite simple Leavitt path algebras

Siles Molina, Exchange Leavitt path algebras and stable rank, J.
Simple Lie algebras arising from Leavitt path algebras

Siles. A decision procedure for regular expression equivalence in type theory.
Kleene Algebra with Tests and Coq Tools for While Programs

Graph Algebras: Bridging the gap between analysis and algebra (Gonzalo Aranda Pino, Francesc Perera Dom`enech, and Mercedes Siles Molina, eds.), Servicio de Publicaciones de la Universidad de M´alaga, M´alaga, Spain. A.
Classifying $C^*$-algebras with both finite and infinite subquotients

Usage in literature

I haven't seen sile enough in tin days to raise wan pataty. "Overland" by John William De Forest

Here, Dan, you and Sile go and ketch Mr. Gruse and this young man some grasshoppers. "Amos Kilbright; His Adscititious Experiences" by Frank R. Stockton

Never mind about shooting an old friend, Sile Ropes. "Cudjo's Cave" by J. T. Trowbridge

The' hain't nothin' better'n the smell o' new sile fer them 'at's consumpted. "The Mountain Girl" by Payne Erskine

Maybe that's what makes our sile so rich an' gives us our wonderful crops! "Dorothy on a House Boat" by Evelyn Raymond

We'll get 'em on American sile. "The Red Mustang" by William O. Stoddard

She tried to sile the milk this morning, and had to give it up, and let the lass do it instead. "The Parson O' Dumford" by George Manville Fenn

The party consisted of Sile J., Old Al., Eli J. and the writer. "Woodcraft and Camping" by George Washington Sears (Nessmuk)

Sile Hathaway's just got here with two whole deer. "Winter Fun" by William O. Stoddard

You see its made up of old Whigs, Abolitionists and free sile Dimmycrats. "Letters of Major Jack Downing, of the Downingville Militia" by Seba Smith