sieve

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

Use the sieve to get the pasta from the water.

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.

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.

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.

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

To strain, sift or sort using a sieve.

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

To concede; to let in.

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.