noun Download 🔗Share 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. Examples : "Use the sieve to get the pasta from the water." utensil technology device material Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share 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. Examples : "Given a list of consecutive numbers starting at 1, the Sieve of Eratosthenes algorithm will find all of the prime numbers." process utensil item machine Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share A kind of coarse basket. Examples : "The farmer used a sieve to separate the good wheat from the chaff. " utensil item Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share A person, or their mind, that cannot remember things or is unable to keep secrets. Examples : "My sister is a sieve; she can't seem to remember what homework she needs to do tonight. " person mind character Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share 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. Examples : "The set of all possible paths from different students to the school library forms a sieve, where the library is the fixed codomain. " math logic system Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb Download 🔗Share To strain, sift or sort using a sieve. Examples : "The baker will sieve the flour to remove any lumps before making the cake. " utensil food process Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb Download 🔗Share To concede; let in Examples : "The teacher had to sieve some of the students' concerns into the lesson plan. " organization business Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
