sieve

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim 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.

   “Use the sieve to get the pasta from the water.”

2. isim 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. isim A kind of coarse basket.
4. isim A person, or their mind, that cannot remember things or is unable to keep secrets.
5. isim An intern who lets too many non-serious cases into the emergency room.

   “To be a sieve was to lack clinical judgment, courage, and group loyalty all at once.”

6. isim A 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. fiil To strain, sift or sort using a sieve.

   “Serpulorbis grandis feeds on plankton that it seives ^([sic]) from the water like a clam does.”

8. fiil To concede; to let in.

   “This was their seventh defeat out of nine finals, including five in a row, and the second half was a chastening experience for the Serie A champions, culminating in them sieving more goals in one match than in the rest of the competition put together.”