/sɪv/
noun
A device with a mesh bottom to 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.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
To strain, sift or sort using a sieve.To concede; let in