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sieve noun

  /sɪv/
  • 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.
 tamis, crible, passoire
  • 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.
 crible, tamis

sieve verb

  /sɪv/
  • To strain, sift or sort using a sieve.
 sasser, tamiser
mind like a sieve
mémoire de poisson rouge
sieve of Eratosthenes
crible d'Ératosthène
cheese-sieve
faisselle
to have a memory like a sieve
mémoire de poisson rouge
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