sieve

English

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Sieve in cooking

Etymology

From Old English sife, Proto-Germanic *sibi. Akin to German Sieb, Dutch zeef, Slavic *sito (Russian сито, сев, сеять).

Pronunciation

• IPA: /sɪv/, X-SAMPA: /sIv/

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -ɪv

Noun

sieve (plural sieves)

1. A device to separate larger objects from smaller objects, or to separate solid objects from a liquid.

   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 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.

Derived terms

have a mind like a sieve

leak like a sieve

memory like a sieve

sievish

Translations

device to separate larger objects

• Albanian: sitë (sq) f
• Arabic: غربال (ar) (ġirbāl) m
• Armenian: մաղ (hy) (mał)
• Asturian: peñera (ast) f
• Azeri: süzgəc (az)
• Basque: bahe (eu)
• Belarusian: рэшата (be) (réšata) n, сіта (be) (síta) n
• Bulgarian: решето (bg) (rešéto) n, сито (bg) (síto) n
• Catalan: (for solids) garbell (ca) m, sedàs (ca) m; (for liquids) colador (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 篩子 (cmn), 筛子 (cmn) (shāizi)

• Czech: síto (cs) n, řešeto (cs) n
• Danish: si (da) c, sigte (da) c
• Dutch: zeef (nl) f
• Esperanto: kribrilo (eo)
• Estonian: sõel (et)
• Finnish: seula (fi), siivilä (fi)
• French: tamis (fr) m, crible (fr) m, passoire (fr) m (for cooking)
• Georgian: საცერი (ka) (sac'eri)
• German: Sieb (de) n
• Greek: κόσκινο (el) (kóskino) n
• Hebrew: נפה (he) f
• Hungarian: szita (hu), rosta (hu), szűrő (hu)
• Ido: sivo (io)
• Italian: setaccio (it) m, scolino (it) m
• Japanese: ふるい (ja) (furui)

• Jèrriais: craîncheux m
• Korean: 체 (ko) (che)
• Latvian: siets (lv) m
• Lithuanian: sietas (lt) m
• Luhya: sichungi
• Macedonian: сито (mk) (síto) n
• Meru: gichunki
• Norwegian: sikt (no) c, såld c, sil c
• Persian: غربال (fa) (ğerbâl)
• Polish: sitko (pl) n, sito (pl) n
• Portuguese: peneira (pt) f, coador (pt) m
• Romanian: sită (ro) f
• Russian: решето (ru) (rešetó) n, сито (ru) (síto) n, дуршлаг (ru) (duršlág) m (colander)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: сито (sh) n, решето (sh) n

  Roman: sito (sh) n, rešeto (sh) n

• Slovak: sito (sk) n, rešeto (sk) n
• Slovene: rešêto (sl) n
• Spanish: tamiz (es) m (for solids), colador (es) m (for liquids)
• Swahili: kichujio (sw)
• Swedish: såll (sv) n
• Turkish: süzgeç (tr)
• Ukrainian: решето (uk) (réšeto) n, сито (uk) (sýto) n
• Vietnamese: rây (vi), rây bột (vi)
• West Frisian: souwe (fy)

process that filters out unwanted pieces of input

• Czech: síto (cs) n
• Finnish: seulonta (fi)
• French: crible (fr) m
• Icelandic: sáldur (is) n

• Polish: odcedzanie (pl)
• Portuguese: crivo (pt)
• Russian: просеивание (ru) (proséivanije) n
• Swedish: sållning (sv) n

Verb

sieve (third-person singular simple present sieves, present participle sieving, simple past and past participle sieved)

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

Translations

to strain, sift or sort using a sieve

• Catalan: filtrar (ca), colar (ca)
• Czech: prosít (cs)
• Dutch: zeven (nl)
• Esperanto: kribri (eo)
• Finnish: seuloa (fi), siivilöidä (fi)
• French: tamiser (fr), sasser (fr)
• German: sieben (de), durchsieben (de)
• Polish: przesiać (pl), przesiewać (pl), odcedzić (pl), cedzić (pl)

• Portuguese: coar (pt), peneirar (pt)
• Quechua: icharay (qu)
• Romanian: cerne (ro)
• Russian: просеивать (ru) (proséivat'), отсеивать (ru) (otséivat')
• Serbo-Croatian: prosijati (sh)
• Spanish: cribar (es), colar (es) (for liquids), cernir (es) (for solids)
• Telugu: జల్లించు (te) (jallinchu)
• West Frisian: souje (fy), souwe (fy)

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Translations to be checked

• Norwegian: sikte (no), sålde (no)
• Romanian: sita (ro)