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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