sieve

Sieve in cooking

Meanings

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

From Middle English sive, syfe, from Old English sife, sibi, from Proto-West Germanic *sibi ("sieve"), from Proto-Indo-European *seyp-, *seyb-. Akin to German Sieb, Dutch zeef, Proto-Slavic *sito (Russian си́то, сев, се́ять).

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