sieve

Meaning of sieve

noun
  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.
  5. A collection of morphisms in a category whose codomain is a certain fixed object of that category, which collection is closed under pre-composition by any morphism in the category.
verb
  1. To strain, sift or sort using a sieve.
  2. To concede; let in

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Hyphenation of sieve

sieve

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 5 chars.
  • sieve is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

sieve synonyms

Meaning screen:

screen, sort

Meaning sift:

sift, strain

Translation of sieve

Words that rhyme with sieve

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