sieve

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. 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
  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.
    — Given a list of consecutive numbers starting at 1, the Sieve of Eratosthenes algorithm will find all of the prime numbers.
  3. A kind of coarse basket. obsolete
  4. A person, or their mind, that cannot remember things or is unable to keep secrets. colloquial
  5. An intern who lets too many non-serious cases into the emergency room. derogatory,slang
    — To be a sieve was to lack clinical judgment, courage, and group loyalty all at once.
  6. 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.
动词 v.
  1. To strain, sift or sort using a sieve. transitive
    — Serpulorbis grandis feeds on plankton that it seives ^([sic]) from the water like a clam does.
  2. To concede; to let in. transitive
    — 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.

词形变化

sieves plural sieves present,singular,third-person sieving participle,present sieved participle,past sieved past

词汇关系

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词源

词源 1
From Middle English sive, syfe, from Old English sife, from Proto-West Germanic *sibi (“sieve”), from Proto-Indo-European *seyp-, *seyb- (“to pour, sieve, strain, run, drip”). Akin to German Sieb, Dutch zeef, Proto-Slavic *sito (Russian си́то (síto), сев (sev), се́ять (séjatʹ)).
词源 2
From Middle English sive, syfe, from Old English sife, from Proto-West Germanic *sibi (“sieve”), from Proto-Indo-European *seyp-, *seyb- (“to pour, sieve, strain, run, drip”). Akin to German Sieb, Dutch zeef, Proto-Slavic *sito (Russian си́то (síto), сев (sev), се́ять (séjatʹ)).
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