sift

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/sɪft/

verb 5name 2noun 1

Collocations

(verb.) pass sth through a sieve

ADV

finely

After baking the cake, I finely sifted powdered sugar over the top for decoration.

in, together

She carefully sifted together the flour and baking powder before adding them to the bowl.

(verb.) examine sth very carefully

ADV

carefully, methodically

PREP

through

The teacher had to sift through hundreds of applications to find the best candidates.

Definitions

verb

To sieve or strain (something).

To separate or scatter (things) as if by sieving.

To examine (something) carefully.

As neere as I could ſift him on that argument, On ſome apparant danger ſeene in him, Aym‘d at your Highneſſe, no inueterate malice.

But if we still carry on our sifting humour, and ask, What is the foundation of all conclusions from experience ? this implies a new question.

To examine (something) carefully.

Sifting through the work of great orators like Philostratus and Quintilian they identify numerous examples of classical irony, metaphor, comparison, etc. which are missing in Paul.

Britain’s police are especially zealous. Officers spend thousands of hours sifting through potentially offensive posts and arrest 30 people a day. Among those collared were a man who ranted about immigration on Facebook and a couple who criticised their daughter’s primary school.

To move data records up in memory to make space to insert further records.

noun

An act of sifting.

name

Initialism of scale-invariant feature transform.

Initialism of Selection Instrument Flight Training.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

verb — distinguish and separate out

sieve

verb — separate by passing through a sieve or other straining devic

verb — check and sort carefully

sieve

Antonyms

Idioms & Phrases

sift out

To isolate or identify one particular thing from a collection that includes less relevant things.

So in the waning days of the 20th Century, concert programmers and ticket-buyers alike have become informed and careful about what to sell and what to buy; to sift out the good new

sift through

To carefully go through a set of objects, or a collection of information, in order to find something.

Example Bank

As neere as I could ſift him on that argument, On ſome apparant danger ſeene in him, Aym‘d at your Highneſſe, no inueterate malice.

Wiktionary

But if we still carry on our sifting humour, and ask, What is the foundation of all conclusions from experience ? this implies a new question.

Wiktionary

It immediately occurred to him to sift her on the subject of Isabella and Theodore.

Wiktionary

If you sift through barrels of dirt, you may eventually find a flake of gold.

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Did you sift the flour before you made the cookie batter?

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Tom wanted to sift the flour, salt, and baking soda together, but he didn't have a sieve.

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Usage Notes

i Register

In some senses, sift is marked as archaic, dated, US. Watch for register when choosing this word.

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