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sieve

/sɪv/

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noun

Passoire, tamis

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."

Utilisez la passoire pour sortir les pâtes de l'eau.

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noun

Crible, filtrage

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."

Étant donné une liste de nombres consécutifs commençant à 1, l'algorithme du crible d'Ératosthène trouvera tous les nombres premiers.

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noun

Passoire, tamis

A kind of coarse basket.

Examples :

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

L'agriculteur a utilisé une passoire pour séparer le bon blé de la balle.

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noun

Passoire, personne oublieuse

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. "

Ma sœur est une passoire ; elle ne semble pas se souvenir des devoirs qu'elle doit faire ce soir.

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noun

Un crible

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. "

L'ensemble de tous les chemins possibles de différents élèves vers la bibliothèque de l'école forme un crible, où la bibliothèque est le codomaine fixe.

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verb

Tamiser, filtrer

To strain, sift or sort using a sieve.

Examples :

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

Le boulanger va tamiser la farine pour enlever les grumeaux avant de faire le gâteau.

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verb

Tamiser, filtrer

To concede; let in

Examples :

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

Le professeur a dû intégrer certaines des préoccupations des élèves dans le plan de cours.

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