sieve en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- /sɪv/
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Etymology
From Middle English sive, syfe, from Old English sife, 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 си́то (síto), сев (sev), се́ять (séjatʹ)).
Meanings
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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.
The philosopher Demonax said of two dunces, 'one appeared to be milking a he-goat while the other was holding a sieve for him.'
1847, editorial staff, “(untitled: Philosopher Demonax)”, in Scientific American, series 1, Volume 3, Issue 9, page 72:Use the sieve to get the pasta from the water.
Near-synonyms: sifter, strainer, temse
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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.
2010, Luke Mastin, “20TH CENTURY MATHEMATICS - ROBINSON AND MATIYASEVICH”, in www.storyofmathematics.com, retrieved 08 Sep 2013:Given a list of consecutive numbers starting at 1, the Sieve of Eratosthenes algorithm will find all of the prime numbers.
- (obsolete) A kind of coarse basket.
- (colloquial) A person, or their mind, that cannot remember things or is unable to keep secrets.
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(derogatory, slang) An intern who lets too many non-serious cases into the emergency room.
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:
- 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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sievish · cleaning sieve · Selberg sieve · sieveful · sieve-tube element · sieve of Eratosthenes · sieve plate · mol sieve · sieve cell · leak like a sieve · mole sieve · sievelike · brain like a sieve · memory like a sieve · sieve theory · head like a sieve · microsieve · sieveless · larger sieve · large sieve · Brun sieve · subsieve · ranch-sieve · range-sieve · sieve set · sieve number · molecular sieve · nanosieve · Turán sieve · mind like a sieve · sieveyer
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