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What is the noun for sieve?

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sieve
  1. A device to separate, in a granular material, larger particles from smaller ones, or to separate solid objects from a liquid.
  2. 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.
  3. (obsolete) A kind of coarse basket.
  4. (category theory) A collection of morphisms in a category whose codomain is a certain fixed object of that category, which collection is closed under pre-composition by any morphism in the category.
  5. Synonyms:
  6. Examples:
    1. “Wash the lentils in a sieve under running water.”
sieving
  1. The act of passing something through a sieve.
  2. Material that has passed through a sieve.
  3. Synonyms:
sieveyer
  1. (archaic) A maker of sieves.
sieveful
  1. As much as a sieve can hold.
siever
  1. One who sieves.
sievesful
  1. plural of sieveful
sieveyers
  1. plural of sieveyer
sievefuls
  1. plural of sieveful
sievings
sievers
  1. plural of siever
  2. Examples:
    1. “Data for 1882-85 were secured by von Boeck and they have been quoted by Sievers and Hann.”
      “Type B, according to Sievers, occurs 1014 times in Beowulf, of which 293 are in the first hemistich and 721 in the second.”
      “But, pray, my dear Prince, tell me what has happened to Sievers.”
sieves
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