What is the meaning of Sieve?

(n.) A kind of coarse basket.
(n.) A utensil for separating the finer and coarser parts of a pulverized or granulated substance from each other. It consist of a vessel, usually shallow, with the bottom perforated or made of hair, wire or the like, woven in meshes.

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