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sieve

/sɪv/

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noun

Criba, tamiz

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."

Usa la criba para sacar la pasta del agua.

utensil technology device material

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noun

Criba, tamizado

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."

Dada una lista de números consecutivos que comienzan en 1, el algoritmo de la criba de Eratóstenes encontrará todos los números primos.

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noun

Criba, tamiz

A kind of coarse basket.

Examples :

"The farmer used a sieve to separate the good wheat from the chaff. "

El granjero usó una criba para separar el buen trigo de la paja.

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noun

Criba, persona que no puede guardar secretos

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. "

Mi hermana es una criba; parece que no puede recordar qué tarea tiene que hacer esta noche.

person mind character

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noun

Criba

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. "

El conjunto de todas las trayectorias posibles desde diferentes estudiantes hasta la biblioteca de la escuela forma una criba, donde la biblioteca es el codominio fijo.

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verb

Cernir, tamizar

To strain, sift or sort using a sieve.

Examples :

"The baker will sieve the flour to remove any lumps before making the cake. "

El panadero tamizará la harina para quitar los grumos antes de hacer el pastel.

utensil food process

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verb

Cernir, tamizar

To concede; let in

Examples :

"The teacher had to sieve some of the students' concerns into the lesson plan. "

El profesor tuvo que tamizar algunas de las preocupaciones de los estudiantes en el plan de estudios.

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