different between sieve vs sievelike

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.

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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

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References

Further reading

• sieve on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Hunsrik

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?si?v?/

Numeral

sieve

1. seven

Further reading

• Online Hunsrik Dictionary

English

Alternative forms

• sieve-like

Etymology

sieve +? -like

Adjective

sievelike (comparative more sievelike, superlative most sievelike)

1. Resembling a sieve; thus, having holes through which fluids can pass

   a sievelike membrane

Synonyms

• ethmoid, ethmoidal