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sieve

noun
/sɪv/

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)).

  1. derived from *seyp-✻
  2. inherited from *sibi✻
  3. inherited from sife
  4. inherited from sive

Definitions

  1. A device with a mesh, grate, or otherwise perforated bottom to separate, in a granular…

    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
    • Use the sieve to get the pasta from the water.

  2. A process, physical or abstract, that arrives at a final result by filtering out unwanted…

    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.
    • Among, ^([sic]) his other achievements, Matiyasevich and his colleague Boris Stechkin also developed an interesting “visual sieve” for prime numbers, which effectively “crosses out” all the composite numbers, leaving only the primes.

  3. A kind of coarse basket.

  4. ›+ 5 more definitions

    1. A person, or their mind, that cannot remember things or is unable to keep secrets.

    2. An intern who lets too many non-serious cases into the emergency room.

      • To be a sieve was to lack clinical judgment, courage, and group loyalty all at once.

    3. A collection of morphisms in a category whose codomain is a certain fixed object of that…

      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.

    4. To strain, sift or sort using a sieve.

      • Serpulorbis grandis feeds on plankton that it seives ^([sic]) from the water like a clam does.

    5. To concede

      To concede; to let in.

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Derived

brain like a sieve, Brun sieve, cleaning sieve, head like a sieve, larger sieve, large sieve, leak like a sieve, memory like a sieve, microsieve, mind like a sieve, molecular sieve, mole sieve, mol sieve, nanosieve, ranch-sieve, range-sieve, Selberg sieve, sieve cell, sieveful, sieveless, sievelike, sieve number, sieve of Eratosthenes, sieve plate, sieve set, sieve theory, sieve-tube element, sieveyer, sievish, subsieve, Turán sieve, resieve, sievable, sieve out, siever

Vish — recursive loop

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA