Sieve

Definition

A utensil for straining solids from liquids or separating particles.

Etymology

From Middle English sive, syfe, from Old English sife, from Proto-West Germanic *sibi (“sieve”), from Proto-Indo-European *seyp-, *seyb- (“to pour, sieve, strain, run, drip”). Akin to German Sieb, Dutch zeef, Proto-Slavic *sito (Russian си́то (síto), сев (sev), се́ять (séjatʹ)).

Synonyms

screen

In a sentence

The validation layer acted as a sieve filtering out malformed requests.