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Sieve
/sɪv/
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.
📖 Definitions of "Sieve"
- 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.
"Use the sieve to get the pasta from the water."
- 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.
"Given a list of consecutive numbers starting at 1, the Sieve of Eratosthenes algorithm will find all of the prime numbers."
- 3
A kind of coarse basket.
- 4
A person, or their mind, that cannot remember things or is unable to keep secrets.
- 1
To strain, sift or sort using a sieve.
- 2
To concede; let in
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