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What does sieve mean?

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Noun
  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.
Verb
  1. To strain, sift or sort using a sieve.
  2. (sports) To concede; let in
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