English-French translations for sieve

passoireL'embargo sur les armes est une véritable passoire. The arms embargo turns out to be a complete sieve. La frontière européenne ressemble à une vraie passoire. The European border appears to be as leaky as a sieve. Certes, l'Europe ne doit pas être une forteresse, mais elle ne doit pas être non plus une passoire. True, Europe must not be a fortress, but nor must it be a sieve.
sasser
tamisPersonne ne s’interroge sur le bien-fondé qu’il y a à passer la poussière au tamis, et la seule manière d’arrêter de perdre cette poussière est tout simplement d’arrêter de la verser. No one thinks about the wisdom of pouring the dust through the sieve in the first place and quite simply the way to stop the dust being lost is to stop pouring.
tamiser
tamiseuse

A device with a mesh bottom to separate#Verb|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
To strain, sift or sort using a sieve

Use the sieve to get the pasta from the water
Given a list of consecutive numbers starting at 1, the Sieve of Eratosthenes algorithm will find all of the prime numbers.

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