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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.
Derived terms
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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wire
English
Etymology
From Middle English wir, wyr, from Old English w?r (“wire, metal thread, wire-ornament”), from Proto-Germanic *w?raz (“wire”), from Proto-Indo-European *weh?iros (“a twist, thread, cord, wire”), from *weh?y- (“to turn, twist, weave, plait”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /wa??(?)/
- (US) enPR: w???r, w?r, IPA(key): /?wa??/
- Rhymes: -a??(r)
Noun
wire (countable and uncountable, plural wires)
- (uncountable) Metal formed into a thin, even thread, now usually by being drawn through a hole in a steel die.
- A piece of such material; a thread or slender rod of metal, a cable.
- A metal conductor that carries electricity.
- A fence made of usually barbed wire.
- (sports) A finish line of a racetrack.
- (informal) A telecommunication wire or cable.
- (by extension) An electric telegraph; a telegram.
- (slang) A hidden listening device on the person of an undercover operative for the purposes of obtaining incriminating spoken evidence.
- (informal) A deadline or critical endpoint.
- (billiards) A wire strung with beads and hung horizontally above or near the table which is used to keep score.
- (usually in the plural) Any of the system of wires used to operate the puppets in a puppet show; hence, the network of hidden influences controlling the action of a person or organization; strings.
- to pull the wires for office
- (archaic, thieves' slang) A pickpocket who targets women.
- (slang) A covert signal sent between people cheating in a card game.
- (Scotland) A knitting needle.
- The slender shaft of the plumage of certain birds.
Synonyms
- (thin thread of metal): cable, steel wire, thread
- (metal conductor that carries electricity): conducting wire
- (fencing made of usually barbed wire): barbed wire
- (informal: telegraph): See telegraph
- (informal: message transmitted by telegraph): See telegram
- (object used to keep the score in billiards): score string
Hyponyms
Derived terms
Translations
Descendants
- ? Gulf Arabic: ????? (w?yir)
See also
- filament
- hawser
- cable
Verb
wire (third-person singular simple present wires, present participle wiring, simple past and past participle wired)
- To fasten with wire, especially with reference to wine bottles, corks, or fencing.
- 1934, Rex Stout, Fer-de-Lance, 1992 Bantam edition, ?ISBN, page 222:
- I could see him in his plane flying low over the river or a reservoir, dropping the club out with a chunk of lead wired to the shaft.
- 1934, Rex Stout, Fer-de-Lance, 1992 Bantam edition, ?ISBN, page 222:
- To string on a wire.
- To equip with wires for use with electricity.
- Do you know how to wire a plug?
- To add something into an electrical system by means of wiring; to incorporate or include something.
- I'll just wire your camera to the computer screen.
- (figuratively, usually passive) To fix or predetermine (someone's personality or behaviour) in a particular way.
- There's no use trying to get Sarah to be less excitable. That's just the way she's wired.
- To send a message or monetary funds to another person through a telecommunications system, formerly predominantly by telegraph.
- (slang) To make someone tense or psyched up. See also adjective wired.
- (slang) To install eavesdropping equipment.
- To snare by means of a wire or wires.
- (transitive, croquet) To place (a ball) so that the wire of a wicket prevents a successful shot.
Synonyms
- (equip for use with electricity): electrify
- (informal: send a message or funds by telecommunications): cable, telegraph
Antonyms
- (to fasten with wire): unwire
Troponyms
- (to fasten with wire): rewire
- (equip for use with electricity): rewire
Derived terms
Translations
Anagrams
- Weir, weir, wier
Javanese
Romanization
wire
- Romanization of ????
Norwegian Bokmål
Noun
wire m (definite singular wiren, indefinite plural wirer, definite plural wirene)
- Alternative spelling of vaier
Norwegian Nynorsk
Noun
wire m (definite singular wiren, indefinite plural wirar, definite plural wirane)
- Alternative spelling of vaier
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