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Meaning sift meaning

What does sift mean?

sift

— verb (= sieve, strain) separate by passing through a sieve or other straining device to separate out coarser elements sift the flour — verb move as if through a sieve The soldiers sifted through the woods — verb check and sort carefully sift the information — verb distinguish and separate out sift through the job candidates

Synonyms sift synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as sift?

sift English » English

sieve strain winnow screen filter riddle separate shake investigate search examine vet try select scrutinize scan refine process probe percolate look into inquire examine closely distill clear cleanse canvass bolt wash test survey study strainer sound sort out siftage sieving sieve out she’s sifting it segregate scrutinise screening screen out scatter research redeem quiz pull tight pour peruse

Topics sift topics

What do people use sift to talk about?
Daily life Food Food preparation

Cooking methods
Physical actions Arrange Gather

Separate, scatter

Conjugation sift conjugation

How do you conjugate sift?

sift · verb

Examples sift examples

How do I use sift in a sentence?

Movie subtitles

Committees are small groups of senators who sift a bill down and report back.
If we could sift this dirt!
By the way, Pete, you'll have to go back and look for some more bones and sift the sand to a depth of at least a foot.
It was the king himself who requested us To sift the facts and present our recommendations.
So much evidence to sift.
I'll sift the sand.
Sift in a cup of powdered whale heart.
All you have to do is to sift the information, decide what's worth sending, what isn't.
And if I do listen I sift it so I don't really hear, which is the only way.
What I hear, I sift.
By the time they sift through that wreckage, we'll be gone.
He created an error-correcting mechanism, a systematic and relentless way to sift out misconceptions in our thinking.
Let Sift and intruding.
And then we sift it for impurities.
I'll take it outside and sift it.
Yeah, we'll sift it.
Now, the mesic atom is extremely small, small enough to sift through the electron defenses of the ordinary atom - and fuse with its nuclei.
Sift through them and select the ones you set your mind on.
Yes. Let us for one moment sift all the facts.
Yes, let's have a sift.
I'm all for a good sift.
All that's left to do now, sir. is sift through the rubble.
But you could take that mountain and pulverise it. and sift through it like breadcrumbs for the rest of your natural life. and you would never ever find.
If I do listen, I sift everything so I don't really hear you, which is about the only way to manage it.
You sift through the detritus. You read the terrain.
Mr. Fosdyke, if people start to run. Sift them for Truman.
Sift them fine.
No matter how many debris fields we sift through, a node from a dead drone isn't going to work.
It'll take us six months to sift through all the hair and fibre we lifted.
I just wanted your opinion on how to sift through these.
Sift?.
I find it hard to resist a good sift.
They have a lot of evidence to sift through. a lot of testimony to consider.
Fire Marshall thought I was kidding when I told him I wanted to sift all this.

News and current affairs

This is more democratic, no doubt, but it has made it harder for people to sift nonsense from truth, or demagoguery from rational political debate.
Caught in the middle, Chinese increasingly sift for the truth on their own.
The energetic collisions produce all manner of debris, which physicists carefully track with huge detectors and sift with sophisticated computer algorithms.

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