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sieve
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What does sieve mean?
noun
- A device with a mesh, grate, or otherwise perforated bottom to separate, in a granular material, larger particles from smaller ones, or to separate solid objects from a liquid.
- 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.
- A person, or their mind, that cannot remember things or is unable to keep secrets.
More meanings (5)
noun
- 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.
- (obsolete) A kind of coarse basket.
- (derogatory, slang) An intern who lets too many non-serious cases into the emergency room.
verb
- To strain, sift or sort using a sieve.
- To concede; to let in.
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IPA pronunciation
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A more perfect cleaning afterwards could be secured with a grain fanning mill or a simple sieve of the right mesh.
A small, fine-meshed net, fashioned like a sieve and handled by two, is one of the best means of collecting minnows.
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To dream of a sieve, foretells some annoying transaction will soon be made by you, which will probably be to your loss.
Plough a sandy desert, beat the water of the rivers, pass type through a sieve,--you will get neither wheat, nor fish, nor books.
Reduce a third, and add the contents of the first saucepan, boil the sauce a few minutes, and pass it through a sieve.