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Definition of 'SIFT'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (v.t.) sift
to separate and retain the coarse parts of (flour, ashes, etc.) with a sieve.

2.  sift
to scatter by means of a sieve:
to sift sugar onto a cake.

3.  sift
to separate by or as if by a sieve.

4.  sift
to examine closely:
The detectives are sifting the evidence.

5. (v.i.) sift
to sift something.

6.  sift
to pass or fall through or as if through a sieve.

Etymology: (bef. 900; OE siftan akin to sieve)

Definition of 'SIFT'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (verb) sift
move as if through a sieve
"The soldiers sifted through the woods"

2. (verb) sift, sieve, strain
separate by passing through a sieve or other straining device to separate out coarser elements
"sift the flour"

3. (verb) sieve, sift
check and sort carefully
"sift the information"

4. (verb) sieve, sift
distinguish and separate out
"sift through the job candidates"

Definition of 'SIFT'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. (verb) sift
to pass a dry substance through a sieve
Sift the flour.

Definition of 'SIFT'

Webster Dictionary

1. (verb) SIFT
to separate with a sieve, as the fine part of a substance from the coarse; as, to sift meal or flour; to sift powder; to sift sand or lime

2. (verb) SIFT
to separate or part as if with a sieve

3. (verb) SIFT
to examine critically or minutely; to scrutinize

Translation of 'SIFT'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: to separate by passing through a sieve etc Sift the flour before making the cake.
Afrikaans: sif	Arabic: يُنَخِّل، يُغَرْبِل	Bulgarian: отсявам
Brazilian: peneirar	Czech: prosít	German: sieben
Danish: sigte	Greek: κοσκινίζω	Spanish: tamizar
Estonian: sõeluma	Farsi: غربال كردن	Finnish: siivilöidä
French: tamiser	Hebrew: לְנַפּוֹת	Hindi: छनना
Croatian: prosijavati	Hungarian: (meg)szitál	Indonesian: mengayak
Icelandic: sigta	Italian: setacciare	Japanese: ふるいにかける
Korean: 체로 거르다	Lithuanian: (iš)sijoti	Latvian: []sijāt
Malay: mengayak	Dutch: ziften	Norwegian: sikte, sile
Polish: przesiewać	Persian: غربال كردن	Pashto: غلبيلول، پروېزل: چاڼول: چ
Portuguese: peneirar	Romanian: a cerne	Russian: просеивать
Slovak: preosiať	Slovenian: presejati	Serbian: prosejati
Swedish: sålla, sikta	Thai: ร่อนด้วยตะแกรง	Turkish: elekten geçirmek, elemek
Taiwanese: 過篩	Ukrainian: сіяти, просівати	Urdu: چھنی سے چھاننا
Vietnamese: rây, giần	Chinese: 过筛
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