English Dictionary

sieve

IPA（発音記号）

/sɪv/

名詞

廃用 口語 軽蔑的 俗語

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.

日本語の意味

細かい粒子と大きな粒子、または固体と液体を分離するための、網状の底を持つ装置

She sifted the flour through a sieve to remove lumps.

彼女は粉をふるいにかけて塊を取り除いた。

意味（1）

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.

意味（2）

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, his other achievements, Matiyasevich and his colleague Boris Stechkin also developed an interesting “visual sieve” for prime numbers, which effectively “crosses out” all the composite numbers, leaving only the primes.

意味（3）

(obsolete) A kind of coarse basket.

意味（4）

(colloquial) A person, or their mind, that cannot remember things or is unable to keep secrets.

意味（5）

(medicine, slang, derogatory) 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.

意味（6）

(category theory) 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.

sieves （ plural ）