OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 1502

sieve

/sɪv/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
cedazo • ceranda • cernidera • coladera • coladero • colador • criba • cribo • cándara • harnero • pascón • pazcón • tamiz • zaranda
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.
Near-synonyms: sifter, strainer, temse
Use the sieve to get the pasta from the water.
criba
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.
Among, ^([sic]) his other achievements, Matiyasevich and his colleague Boris Stechkin also developed an interesting “visual sieve” for prime numbers, which effectively “crosses out…
Given a list of consecutive numbers starting at 1, the Sieve of Eratosthenes algorithm will find all of the prime numbers.
Word forms
📚 verb • entry_id 1503

sieve

/sɪv/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
cerner • cernir • colar • cribar • harnear • tamizar
To strain, sift or sort using a sieve.
Phrases