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sieve
1. s. Colador, tamiz
2. vt. Colar, tamizar
inglés > inglés
sieve
1. s. 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. s. 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. s. (obsolete) A kind of coarse basket.
4. s. (colloquial) A person, or their mind, that cannot remember things or is unable to keep secrets.
5. s. (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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colador
1. n-m. sieve (only the strainer kind of sifter, not the cup-shaped sifter)
2. n-m. colander

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Our memory is like a sieve, as we forget almost half of what we have learned within the first twenty minutes.      Nuestra memoria es como un colador, ya que olvidamos casi la mitad de lo que aprendemos dentro de los primeros veinte minutos. Water runs through a paper towel as if it were a sieve.      El agua pasa a través de una toalla de papel como si fuera un colador.

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