Italian

Proper noun

Sieve ?

1. A river that flows in Tuscany

English

Sieve in cooking

Noun

sieve ‎(plural sieves)

1. A device 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. 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.
   • 2010, Luke Mastin, “20TH CENTURY MATHEMATICS - ROBINSON AND MATIYASEVICH”, in www.storyofmathematics.com, retrieved 2013-09-08:

     Among, [sic] 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.

   Given a list of consecutive numbers starting at 1, the Sieve of Eratosthenes algorithm will find all of the prime numbers.

3. (obsolete) A kind of coarse basket.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Simmonds to this entry?)

4. (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.

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• riddle

Verb

sieve ‎(third-person singular simple present sieves, present participle sieving, simple past and past participle sieved)

1. To strain, sift or sort using a sieve.

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