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Sieve
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- 1 A device with a mesh, grate, or otherwise perforated bottom to separate, in a granular material, larger particles from smaller ones, or to separate solid objects from a liquid.
"Near-synonyms: sifter, strainer, temse"
- 2 a strainer for separating lumps from powdered material or grading particles wordnet
- 3 A process, physical or abstract, that arrives at a final result by filtering out unwanted pieces of input from a larger starting set of input.
"Given a list of consecutive numbers starting at 1, the Sieve of Eratosthenes algorithm will find all of the prime numbers."
- 4 A kind of coarse basket. obsolete
- 5 A person, or their mind, that cannot remember things or is unable to keep secrets. colloquial
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- 6 An intern who lets too many non-serious cases into the emergency room. derogatory, slang
"To be a sieve was to lack clinical judgment, courage, and group loyalty all at once."
- 7 A collection of morphisms in a category whose codomain is a certain fixed object of that category, which collection is closed under precomposition by any morphism in the category.
- 1 To strain, sift or sort using a sieve. transitive
"Serpulorbis grandis feeds on plankton that it seives ^([sic]) from the water like a clam does."
- 2 distinguish and separate out wordnet
- 3 To concede; to let in. transitive
"This was their seventh defeat out of nine finals, including five in a row, and the second half was a chastening experience for the Serie A champions, culminating in them sieving more goals in one match than in the rest of the competition put together."
- 4 separate by passing through a sieve or other straining device to separate out coarser elements wordnet
- 5 check and sort carefully wordnet
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- 6 examine in order to test suitability wordnet
Etymology
From Middle English sive, syfe, from Old English sife, from Proto-West Germanic *sibi (“sieve”), from Proto-Indo-European *seyp-, *seyb- (“to pour, sieve, strain, run, drip”). Akin to German Sieb, Dutch zeef, Proto-Slavic *sito (Russian си́то (síto), сев (sev), се́ять (séjatʹ)).
From Middle English sive, syfe, from Old English sife, from Proto-West Germanic *sibi (“sieve”), from Proto-Indo-European *seyp-, *seyb- (“to pour, sieve, strain, run, drip”). Akin to German Sieb, Dutch zeef, Proto-Slavic *sito (Russian си́то (síto), сев (sev), се́ять (séjatʹ)).
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