Definitionen
1.NounA 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."Use the sieve to get the pasta from the water."
2.NounA 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.NounA kind of coarse basket.
4.NounA person, or their mind, that cannot remember things or is unable to keep secrets.
5.NounAn intern who lets too many non-serious cases into the emergency room.
6.NounA 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.
7.VerbTo strain, sift or sort using a sieve.
8.VerbTo concede; to let in.