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How to pronounce “sieve”

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Pronunciation guide for sieve

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Practice the English pronunciation of sieve with real speech in context.
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Real speech example
How nanoparticles could change the way we treat cancerSo it's like water going through a sieve.
Definition summary
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.

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How to pronounce sieve

How nanoparticles could change the way we treat cancer

So it's like water going through a sieve.

Example Sentences

A Deep Dive Into “sieve”

Meaning

  • [Noun]
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • (obsolete) A kind of coarse basket.[1]
  • (colloquial) A person, or their mind, that cannot remember things or is unable to keep secrets.
  • (medicine, slang, derogatory) An intern who lets too many non-serious cases into the emergency room.
  • (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]
  • To strain, sift or sort using a sieve.
  • (sports) To concede; let in

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