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▸ noun:  A device with a mesh, grate, or otherwise perforated bottom to separate, in a granular material, larger particles from smaller ones, or to separate solid objects from a liquid.
▸ 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.
▸ noun:  (obsolete) A kind of coarse basket.
▸ noun:  (colloquial) A person, or their mind, that cannot remember things or is unable to keep secrets.
▸ noun:  (medicine, slang, derogatory) An intern who lets too many non-serious cases into the emergency room.
▸ noun:  (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.
▸ verb:  (sports) To concede; let in

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