sieve

IPA: sˈɪv

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.

Examples of "sieve" in Sentences

The mind of a sieve is a beautiful thing to waste :
WILLIS: But you are leaking money like a sieve is the problem.
If it leaks like a sieve, is there anything you can do about it?
Only, it's a selective sieve, which is the way of most sieves, now that I think on it.
In order to protect it on Oscar night, he says, every hole in the so-called sieve will have to be sealed off.
A sieve is a mechanism, specifically, a device which selects or separates from among that which already exists.
With each side conceding four last Tuesday it looked on the cards anyway, though neither manager licked his lips too publicly in advance lest it smacked of the colander calling the sieve holey.
The scientists say the key to their molecular sieve, which is made using microfabrication technology, is the uniform size of the nanopores through which proteins are separated from biological fluids.
The leaves are now taken back to the hot pans and spread out in them as before, being again turned with the naked hand, and when hot taken out and rolled; after which, they are put into a drying basket and spread on a sieve, which is in the centre of the basket, and the whole placed over a charcoal fire.