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.
Phrases
Brun sieveSelberg sieveTurán sievebrain like a sievehead like a sievelarge sievelarger sieveleak like a sievememory like a sievemind like a sievemol sievemole sievemolecular sieveranch-sieverange-sievesieve cellsieve numbersieve of Eratosthenessieve platesieve setsieve theorysieve-tube elementsievelesssievelikesievish
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