English-German translations for sieve

SiebdasEs hat sich herausgestellt, dass die europäische Grenze so durchlässig wie ein Sieb ist. The European border appears to be as leaky as a sieve. Es stimmt, Europa darf nicht zur Festung werden, aber ein Sieb darf es genauso wenig sein. True, Europe must not be a fortress, but nor must it be a sieve. Das große europäische Sieb nimmt mehr und mehr Gestalt an. The great European 'sieve' is becoming more and more of a reality.
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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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