sieve
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[edit] English
[edit] Etymology
From Old English sife, Common Germanic *sibi, akin to German Sieb, Dutch zeef.
[edit] Pronunciation
- IPA: /sɪv/
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- Rhymes: -ɪv
[edit] Noun
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sieve (plural sieves)
- A device to separate larger objects from smaller objects, or to separate solid objects from a liquid.
- Use the sieve to get the water from the pasta.
- 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.
[edit] Translations
device to separate larger objects
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process, physical or abstract
[edit] Verb
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to sieve (third-person singular simple present sieves, present participle sieving, simple past and past participle sieved)
[edit] Translations
to strain, sift or sort using a sieve
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