English-Spanish translations for sieve

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coladorLa frontera europea es tan permeable como un colador. The European border appears to be as leaky as a sieve. Mientras tanto, las fronteras exteriores son como coladores agujereados, que dejan pasar todo. In the meantime, the external borders are like leaky sieves, letting everything through. Esta posición común es como un queso lleno de agujeros o, para expresarlo con un símil más acuoso, tiene más agujeros que un colador. That position is like holey cheese, or to keep it the sphere of water, as leaky as a sieve.
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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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