sieve
IPA: sˈɪv
noun
- A device with a mesh bottom to separate, in a granular material, larger particles from smaller ones, or to separate solid objects from a liquid.
- 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.
- (obsolete) A kind of coarse basket.
- (colloquial) A person, or their mind, that cannot remember things or is unable to keep secrets.
- (medicine, slang, derogatory) An intern who lets too many non-serious cases into the emergency room.
- (category theory) 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.
verb
- To strain, sift or sort using a sieve.
- (sports) To concede; let in
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Examples of "sieve" in Sentences
- Fundamental lemma of sieve theory.
- This material for the number sieve...
- Fundamental lemma of the Selberg sieve.
- A profiled sieve is mounted in the housing.
- For the cooking utensil, see colander or sieve.
- The passage is sized similar to the slots in the sieve.
- In the UK 'passata' refers to sieved uncooked tomatoes.
- The phloem consists of living cells called sieve tube members.
- It can be used similar to a sieve or colander in western cooking.
- This article is about the sieve of Eratosthenes, not about the sieve of Atkin.
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