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- verbsift (verb) · sifts (third person present) · sifted (past tense) · sifted (past participle) · sifting (present participle)
- put (a fine, loose, or powdery substance) through a sieve so as to remove lumps or large particles:"sift the flour into a large bowl"
- cause to flow or pass as through a sieve:"Melanie sifted the warm sand through her fingers"
- (of snow, ash, etc.) descend or float down lightly or sparsely as if sprinkled from a sieve:"ash began to sift down around them"
- examine (something) thoroughly so as to isolate that which is most important or useful:"until we sift the evidence ourselves, we can't comment objectively" · "the fourth stage involves sifting through the data and evaluating it"
- (sift something out)separate something, especially something to be discarded, from something else:"he asked for streamlined procedures to sift out frivolous applications"
nounsift (noun) · sifts (plural noun)- an act of sifting something, especially so as to isolate that which is most important or useful:"a careful archaeological sift must be made through the debris"
- an amount of sifted material:"the floor was dusted with a fine sift of flour"
OriginOld English siftan, of West Germanic origin; related to Dutch ziften, also to sieve.Similar and Opposite Wordsverb- put (a fine, loose, or powdery substance) through a sieve so as to remove lumps or large particles:
- examine (something) thoroughly so as to isolate that which is most important or useful:
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- Learn more:✕This summary was generated using AI based on multiple online sources. To view the original source information, use the "Learn more" links.a : to put through a sieve sift flour b : to separate or separate out by or as if by putting through a sieve 2 : to go through especially to sort out what is useful or valuable sifted the evidencewww.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/siftsift / sɪft / verb tr to sieve (sand, flour, etc) in order to remove the coarser particles to scatter (something) over a surface through a sieve tr to separate with or as if with a sieve; distinguish between tr to examine minutelywww.dictionary.com/browse/siftsift verb [T] (EXAMINE) to make a close examination of all the parts of something in order to find something or to separate what is useful from what is not: The police are sifting the evidence very carefully to try and find the guilty person. After my father's death, I had to sift through all his papers.dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/sift[transitive, intransitive] to examine something very carefully in order to decide what is important or useful or to find something important sift something We will sift every scrap of evidence. Computers are being used to sift the information.www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/us/definition/e…
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