sieve

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Sieve in cooking

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From Old English sife, Common Germanic *sibi, akin to German Sieb, Dutch zeef.

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Singular
sieve

Plural
sieves

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 water from the pasta.
  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.

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[edit] Verb

Infinitive
to sieve

Third person singular
sieves

Simple past
sieved

Past participle
sieved

Present participle
sieving

to 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.

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