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The correct spelling is sieve.
How to pronounce sieve
/sɪv/
nounIPA: /sɪv/
Say it like: See-ve
The correct spelling is sieve. 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. For example: "Use the sieve to get the pasta from the water."
Usage Examples
“Use the sieve to get the pasta from the water.”
“Given a list of consecutive numbers starting at 1, the Sieve of Eratosthenes algorithm will find all of the prime numbers.”
Meanings
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.
- 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.
- 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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