sieve

  1. Noun.  A device to separate larger objects from smaller objects, or to separate solid objects from a liquid.
  2. Noun.  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. Verb.  To strain, sift or sort using a sieve.

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