English-Italian translations for sieve

setaccioVorrei rassicurare l'onorevole Gaubert: è noto in ogni paese di emigrazione che l'Europa è come un setaccio. Let Mr Gaubert be assured: it is a well-known fact in every emigration country that Europe is like a sieve. Quando sento citare la fortezza Europa, mi rattrista notare che lascia a desiderare, al punto che potremmo sostituirlo con il termine "Setaccio Europa”. When I hear Fortress Europe mentioned, I am sad to observe that it leaves so much to be desired that we should perhaps coin the phrase Sieve Europe instead. Nessuno si interroga sulla saggezza di riversare polvere in un setaccio e sul fatto che il modo di impedirne la dispersione sarebbe semplicemente quello di smettere di versarla. 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.
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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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