# sieve
## English
### Etymology

From Middle English sive, syfe, from Old English sife, from Proto-West Germanic *sibi (“sieve”), from Proto-Indo-European *seyp-, *seyb- (“to pour, sieve, strain, run, drip”). Akin to German Sieb, Dutch zeef, Proto-Slavic *sito (Russian си́то (síto), сев (sev), се́ять (séjatʹ)).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /sɪv/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɪv

### Noun

sieve (plural sieves)
* 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.
    Hyponyms: colander, riddle; grizzly (mining, dialectal)
    Coordinate terms: filter, sile
    Near-synonyms: sifter, strainer, temse
    Use the sieve to get the pasta from the water.
* 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.
** 2010, Luke Mastin, “20TH CENTURY MATHEMATICS - ROBINSON AND MATIYASEVICH”, in www.storyofmathematics.com‎, retrieved 2013-09-08:Among, his other achievements, Matiyasevich and his colleague Boris Stechkin also developed an interesting “visual sieve” for prime numbers, which effectively “crosses out” all the composite numbers, leaving only the primes.
* (obsolete) A kind of coarse basket.
* (colloquial) A person, or their mind, that cannot remember things or is unable to keep secrets.
* (medicine, slang, derogatory) An intern who lets too many non-serious cases into the emergency room.
** 1997, Leo Galland, The Four Pillars of Healing, page 25:To be a sieve was to lack clinical judgment, courage, and group loyalty all at once.
* (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.

#### Derived terms

* brain like a sieve
* Brun sieve
* head like a sieve
* larger sieve
* large sieve
* leak like a sieve
* memory like a sieve
* mind like a sieve
* molecular sieve, mole sieve, mol sieve
* Selberg sieve
* sieve cell
* sieveless
* sievelike
* sieve number
* sieve of Eratosthenes
* sieve plate
* sieve set
* sieve theory
* sieve-tube element
* sievish
* Turán sieve

#### See also

* baleen

### Verb

sieve (third-person singular simple present sieves, present participle sieving, simple past and past participle sieved)
* To strain, sift or sort using a sieve.
* (sports) To concede; let in
** 2017 June 3, Daniel Taylor, “Real Madrid win Champions League as Cristiano Ronaldo double defeats Juv”, in The Guardian (London)‎:This was their seventh defeat out of nine finals, including five in a row, and the second half was a chastening experience for the Serie A champions, culminating in them sieving more goals in one match than in the rest of the competition put together.

#### Translations

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### References

* ↑ 1858, Peter Lund Simmonds, The Dictionary of Trade Products

### Further reading

* sieve on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

## Hunsrik
### Etymology

Inherited from Central Franconian sivve, from Middle High German siben, from Old High German sibun, from Proto-West Germanic *sebun, from Proto-Germanic *sebun.
Cognate with German sieben and Luxembourgish siwen.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈsiːvə/
* Rhymes: -iːvə
* Hyphenation: sie‧ve

### Numeral

sieve
* seven
    Das sin schun sieve Uher.That's already seven o'clock.

### References

* ↑ Piter Kehoma Boll (2021) “sieve”, in Dicionário Hunsriqueano Riograndense–Português (in Portuguese), 3rd edition, Ivoti: Riograndenser Hunsrickisch, page 151