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Meaning
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.
⚠️
In Medicine:
An
intern
who
lets
too many
non-serious
cases
into
the emergency
room.
●
In Category theory:
A
collection
of
morphisms
in a
category
whose
codomain
is a certain
fixed
object
of that
category
, which
collection
is
closed
under
precomposition
by any
morphism
in the
category
.
Verb
●
To
strain
,
sift
or
sort
using a sieve.
●
In Sports:
To
concede
; let in
Sourced from
Wiktionary
Origin
sieve
English
sife
Old English (ca. 450-1100)
Sourced from
Etym
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Centrifuge
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Slurry
Sand
Saucepan
Grind
Beaker
Plate
Vacuum
Specimen
Sort
Flask
Filtrate
Micron
Pipette
Comb
Bucket
Tube
Pan
Cylinder
Whatman
Cheesecloth
Container
Filtration
Gravel
Sample
Stirrer
Funnel
Pipe
Column
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Filter Paper
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Rhymes
Div
Liv
Wiv
Shiv
Give
Live
Spiv
Sieve
Unlive
Forgive
Isogriv
Outlive
Sedative
Privative
Invective
Expansive
Iterative
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