- 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:âś•This summary was generated using AI based on multiple online sources. To view the original source information, use the "Learn more" links.sift 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:dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/siftsift (sÄft) v. sift·ed, sift·ing, sifts v.tr. 1. To put (flour, for example) through a sieve in order to separate the fine from the coarse particles.www.thefreedictionary.com/sift
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