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sieve
English
Etymology
From Middle English sive, syfe, from Old English sife, sibi (“sieve”), 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 ????? (síto), ??? (sev), ?????? (séjat?)).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /s?v/
- Rhymes: -?v
Noun
sieve (plural sieves)
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
- (obsolete) A kind of coarse basket.
- (colloquial) A person, or their mind, that cannot remember things or is unable to keep secrets.
- (medicine, slang, derogatory) An intern who lets too many non-serious cases into the emergency room.
- 1997, Leo Galland, The Four Pillars of Healing (page 25)
- To be a sieve was to lack clinical judgment, courage, and group loyalty all at once.
- 1997, Leo Galland, The Four Pillars of Healing (page 25)
- (category theory) 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.
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Translations
Verb
sieve (third-person singular simple present sieves, present participle sieving, simple past and past participle sieved)
- To strain, sift or sort using a sieve.
- (sports) To concede; let in
Translations
References
Further reading
- sieve on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Hunsrik
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?si?v?/
Numeral
sieve
- seven
Further reading
- Online Hunsrik Dictionary
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kieve
English
Noun
kieve (plural kieves)
- Alternative form of keeve
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