different between sieve vs nieve

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)

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

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.

   • 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.

3. (obsolete) A kind of coarse basket.
4. (colloquial) A person, or their mind, that cannot remember things or is unable to keep secrets.
5. (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.

6. (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.

Derived terms

Translations

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.
2. (sports) To concede; let in

Translations

References

Further reading

• sieve on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Hunsrik

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?si?v?/

Numeral

sieve

1. seven

Further reading

• Online Hunsrik Dictionary

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ni?v/

Noun

nieve (plural nieves)

1. variant form of nief

Anagrams

• envie

Asturian

Alternative forms

• ñeve

Etymology

From Latin nix, nivem.

Noun

nieve f (plural nieves)

1. snow

Related terms

• nevar

Ladino

Noun

nieve f (Latin spelling)

1. Alternative form of inyeve

Scots

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Norse hnefi, nefi, of unknown origin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ni?v], [n?v]
• (Mid Northern Scots) IPA^(key): [n?v]

Noun

nieve (plural nieves)

1. fist
2. handful, fistful

Derived terms

Related terms

• nievel (“a sharp blow with the fist; to punch, pummel, batter; to grip, squeeze or pinch with the fingers”)

Verb

nieve (third-person singular present nieves, present participle nievin, past nievit, past participle nievit)

1. to open and close the hand spasmodically
2. (of fish) to catch in the hand

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?njebe/, [?nje.??e]

Etymology 1

From Latin nix, nivem, from Proto-Italic *sniks, from Proto-Indo-European *sníg??s. Compare Italian neve, Portuguese neve, Walloon nive.

Noun

nieve f (plural nieves)

1. snow
2. (Mexico) ice cream

Derived terms

Related terms

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

nieve

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of nevar.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of nevar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of nevar.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of nevar.

Further reading

• “nieve” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.