sieve

See also: Sieve

English

Sieve in cooking

Etymology

From Middle English sive, syfe, from Old English sife, sibi (“sieve”), from Proto-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)).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɪv/

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -ɪv

Noun

sieve (plural sieves)

1. 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.

   Coordinate terms: sifter, sile, riddle

   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.
   • 2010, Luke Mastin, “20TH CENTURY MATHEMATICS - ROBINSON AND MATIYASEVICH”, in www.storyofmathematics.com‎^[1], retrieved 2013-09-08:

     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.

   Given a list of consecutive numbers starting at 1, the Sieve of Eratosthenes algorithm will find all of the prime numbers.

3. (obsolete) A kind of coarse basket.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Simmonds to this entry?)

4. (colloquial) A person, or their mind, that cannot remember things or is unable to keep secrets.
5. (category theory) A collection of morphisms in a category whose codomain is a certain fixed object of that category, which collection is closed under pre-composition by any morphism in the category.

Derived terms

• Brun sieve
• have a mind like a sieve

• large sieve
• larger sieve
• leak like a sieve

• memory like a sieve
• Selberg sieve

• sieveless
• sievish
• Turán sieve

Translations

device to separate larger and smaller objects

• Albanian: sitë (sq) f
• Arabic: غِرْبَال m (ḡirbāl)

  Egyptian Arabic: غربال m (ḡurbāl)

• Armenian: մաղ (hy) (maġ)
• Aromanian: sitã f, tsir n, dirmonj n
• Assamese: চালনি (saloni)
• Asturian: peñera (ast) f
• Azerbaijani: süzgəc (az), ələk (az), xəlbir
• Bashkir: иләк (ilək)
• Basque: bahe
• Belarusian: рэ́шата n (réšata), сі́та n (síta)
• Bulgarian: реше́то n (rešéto), си́то (bg) n (síto)
• Burmese: ဆန်ခါ (my) (hcanhka)
• Catalan: (from solids) garbell (ca) m, sedàs (ca) m, (from liquids) colador (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 篩子／筛子 (zh) (shāizi), 筛子 (zh) (shāizi)

• Czech: síto (cs) n, řešeto (cs) n
• Danish: si (da) c, sigte c
• Dutch: zeef (nl) f
• Esperanto: kribrilo (eo)
• Estonian: sõel
• Finnish: seula (fi), siivilä (fi)
• French: tamis (fr) m, crible (fr) m, passoire (fr) f (for cooking)
• Galician: peneira (gl) f, baruto m, bortel m, xirgo m, bandoxo m, vanelo m, sarandón m
• Georgian: საცერი (saceri)
• German: Sieb (de) n
• Greek: κόσκινο (el) n (kóskino), κρισάρα f (krisára)

  Ancient: κόσκινον n (kóskinon)

• Hebrew: נָפָה (he) f (nafá)
• Hindi: चलनी (hi) f (calnī), छलनी (hi) f (chalnī)
• Hungarian: szita (hu), rosta (hu), szűrő (hu)
• Icelandic: sáld (is) n
• Ido: sivo (io)
• Irish: criathar m, rilleán m
• Italian: setaccio (it) m, scolino (it) m, crivello (it) m, vaglio (it) m, buratto (it) m, tamiso m
• Japanese: 篩 (ja) (ふるい, furui)
• Kazakh: елек (elek), қалбыр (qalbyr), елеуіш (kk) (eleuış)
• Khmer: កន្ត្រង (km) (kɑntrɑɑng)
• Korean: 체 (ko) (che)
• Kurdish:
• Kyrgyz: элек (ky) (elek), элгек (ky) (elgek), калбыр (ky) (kalbır)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Lao: ກະຊອນ (ka sǭn)
• Latin: crībrum n
• Latvian: siets m
• Lithuanian: sietas m
• Luhya: sichungi
• Macedonian: сито n (sito)
• Malay: ayakan
• Manchu: ᠰᡳᠰᡝᡴᡠ (siseku)
• Maori: tātari
• Meru: gichunki
• Mongolian: шигшүүр (mn) (šigšüür)
• Norman: craîncheux m
• Norwegian: sikt c, såld c, sil (no) c
• Persian: الک (fa) (alak), پرویزن (fa) (parvizan), غربال (fa) (ğarbâl), سرند (fa) (sarand), بیزه (bīze)
• Polabian: risetĕ n
• Polish: sitko (pl) n, sito (pl) n, rzeszoto (pl) n
• Portuguese: peneira (pt) f, coador (pt) m
• Purepecha: tsarharakua
• Romanian: sită (ro) f, ciur (ro) n
• Russian: решето́ (ru) n (rešetó), си́то (ru) n (síto), дуршла́г (ru) m (duršlág) (colander)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: сито n, решето n

  Roman: sito (sh) n, rešeto (sh) n

• Slovak: sito (sk) n, rešeto n
• Slovene: rešêto n
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: kśida f, cejźawa f, wokawa f

• Spanish: cedazo (es) m, (from solids) criba (es) f, tamiz (es) m, (from liquids) colador (es) m, harnero m (Chile)
• Swahili: kichujio (sw), mafumbo (sw)
• Swedish: såll (sv) n, sikt (sv) c, sil (sv) c
• Tagalog: bistay
• Tajik: элак (elak), ғалбер (ġalber), ғирбол (ġirbol), ғарбел (ġarbel)
• Thai: กระชอน (th) (grà-chɔɔn), เครื่องร่อน (krʉ̂ʉang-rɔ̂n)
• Tibetan: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: süzgeç (tr), kalbur (tr), elek (tr)
• Turkmen: elek
• Ukrainian: ре́шето n (réšeto), си́то n (sýto)
• Urdu: چھلنی f (chalnī), غرپال (ġarpāl)
• Uzbek: elak (uz), gʻalvir (uz)
• Vietnamese: rây (vi), rây bột
• Walloon: raidje (wa) m (grains), passete (wa) f (cooking)
• West Frisian: souwe

process that filters out unwanted pieces of input

• Czech: síto (cs) n
• Finnish: seulonta
• French: crible (fr) m
• Icelandic: sáldur n
• Ido: sivago
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Polish: odcedzanie (pl)
• Portuguese: crivo (pt)
• Russian: просе́ивание (ru) n (proséivanije)
• Spanish: criba (es) f
• Swedish: sållning n

Verb

1. To strain, sift or sort using a sieve.
2. (sports) To concede; let in
   • 2017 June 3, Daniel Taylor, “Real Madrid win Champions League as Cristiano Ronaldo double defeats Juv”, in The Guardian (London)‎^[2]:

     This was their seventh defeat out of nine finals, including five in a row, and the second half was a chastening experience for the Serie A champions, culminating in them sieving more goals in one match than in the rest of the competition put together.

Translations

to strain, sift or sort using a sieve

• Armenian: մաղել (hy) (maġel)
• Catalan: filtrar (ca), colar (ca)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 篩／筛, 筛 (sai¹)

  Mandarin: 篩／筛 (zh) (shāi), 筛 (zh) (shāi)

• Czech: prosít
• Dutch: zeven (nl)
• Esperanto: kribri (eo)
• Finnish: seuloa (fi), siivilöidä
• French: tamiser (fr), sasser (fr)
• Friulian: trivelâ, tamesâ
• Galician: peneirar (gl)
• German: sieben (de), durchsieben
• Ido: sivagar (io)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Italian: setacciare (it), stacciare, crivellare (it)
• Japanese: 篩う (ふるう, furuu)
• Manchu: ᠰᡳᠰᡝᠮᠪᡳ (sisembi)
• Maori: tātari
• Polish: przesiać (pl), przesiewać (pl), odcedzić (pl), cedzić (pl)
• Portuguese: coar (pt), peneirar (pt)
• Quechua: icharay, suysuy
• Romanian: cerne (ro)
• Russian: просе́ивать (ru) (proséivatʹ), отсе́ивать (ru) (otséivatʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian: prosijati (sh)
• Spanish: cribar (es), colar (es) (for liquids), cernir (es) (for solids)
• Telugu: జల్లించు (te) (jalliñcu)
• Thai: ร่อน (th) (rɔ̂n)
• West Frisian: souje, souwe

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Norwegian: ^{(please verify)} sikte, ^{(please verify)} sålde
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Romanian: ^{(please verify)} sita

Further reading

• sieve on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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Hunsrik

Hunsrik cardinal numbers

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Cardinal : sieve     Ordinal : sibt

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsiːvə/

Numeral

sieve

1. seven

   Das sin schun sieve Uher.

   That's already seven o'clock.

Further reading

• Online Hunsrik Dictionary