sieve
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Danh từ
noun- 1.
A device with a mesh, grate, or otherwise perforated bottom to separate, in a granular material, larger particles from smaller ones, or to separate solid objects from a liquid.
Near-synonyms: sifter, strainer, temse
Use the sieve to get the pasta from the water.
Đồng nghĩa: sifter, strainer, temse
- 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.
(obsolete)A kind of coarse basket.
- 4.
(colloquial)A person, or their mind, that cannot remember things or is unable to keep secrets.
- 5.
(derogatory, slang)(medicine, slang, derogatory) An intern who lets too many non-serious cases into the emergency room.
- 6.
(category theory) A collection of morphisms in a category whose codomain is a certain fixed object of that category, which collection is closed under precomposition by any morphism in the category.
Động từ
verb- 1.
(transitive)To strain, sift or sort using a sieve.
Đồng nghĩa: screen
- 2.
(transitive)(sports, transitive) To concede; to let in.
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From Middle English sive, syfe, from Old English sife, from *sibi (sieve), from Proto-Indo-European *seyp-, *seyb- (to pour, sieve, strain, run, drip). Akin to German Sieb, Dutch zeef, (Russian си́то, сев, се́ять).