Sieve

Quick meaning: Sieve is a noun meaning (colloquial) A person, or their mind, that cannot remember things or is unable to keep secrets.

Meaning

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

More Meanings

1. (medicine, slang, derogatory) An intern who lets too many non-serious cases into the emergency room.
2. (transitive) To strain, sift or sort using a sieve.
3. (sports, transitive) To concede; to let in.
4. 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.
5. 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.
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.
7. (obsolete) A kind of coarse basket.

Example Sentences

Near-synonyms: sifter, strainer, temse

Use the sieve to get the pasta from the water.

To be a sieve was to lack clinical judgment, courage, and group loyalty all at once.

Serpulorbis grandis feeds on plankton that it seives ^([sic]) from the water like a clam does.

Word Forms

• sieves
• sieving
• sieved

Synonyms for sieve

Depending on context, synonyms include sifter, strainer, temse, screen, strain, sort.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include sift, screen, sort, strain, sifting, strainer.

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