English-Latvian translations for sieve

sietsEiropas robeža ir caura kā siets. The European border appears to be as leaky as a sieve. Taisnība, ka Eiropa nedrīkst kļūt par cietoksni, bet tā nedrīkst būt kā siets. True, Europe must not be a fortress, but nor must it be a sieve. Gaubert kungam būtu jāzina: nevienā emigrācijas valstī nav noslēpums, ka Eiropa ir kā siets. Let Mr Gaubert be assured: it is a well-known fact in every emigration country that Europe is like a sieve.

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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