sieve
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Is sieve a Scrabble word?
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What is the meaning of sieve?
Definition
noun (English)
1. (obsolete) A kind of coarse basket.obsolete
2. (colloquial) A person, or their mind, that cannot remember things or is unable to keep secrets.colloquial
3. (medicine, slang, derogatory) An intern who lets too many non-serious cases into the emergency room.Examples: "To be a sieve was to lack clinical judgment, courage, and group loyalty all at once."derogatoryslang
4. (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.
verb (English)
1. (sports) To concede; let inExamples: "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."
Definition source: Wiktionary