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| sieve | |
| 1. n. 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. |  |
| Use the sieve to get the pasta from the water. | |
| 2. n. 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. n. (obsolete) A kind of coarse basket. | |
| 4. n. (colloquial) A person, or their mind, that cannot remember things or is unable to keep secrets. | |
| 5. n. (category theory) 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. | |
| 6. v. To strain, sift or sort using a sieve. | |
| 7. v. (sports) To concede; let in | |
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