sift

[Sift]

To bake a cake, you sift the flour to get out the lumps. When you sift, you separate out one thing from another.

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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.

Verb
distinguish and separate out; "sift through the job candidates"

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separate by passing through a sieve or other straining device to separate out coarser elements; "sift the flour"

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check and sort carefully; "sift the information"

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move as if through a sieve; "The soldiers sifted through the woods"

v. t.
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.

v. t.
To separate or part as if with a sieve.

v. t.
To examine critically or minutely; to scrutinize.

Sift

Sift , v. t. [imp. & p. p. Sifted; p. pr. & vb. n. Sifting.] [AS. siftan, from sife sieve. &root;151a. See Sieve.] 1. 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. To separate or part as if with a sieve.

When yellow sands are sifted from below, The glittering billows give a golden show.

3. To examine critically or minutely; to scrutinize.

Sifting the very utmost sentence and syllable.

Opportunity I here have had To try thee, sift thee.

Let him but narrowly sift his ideas.

To sift out, to search out with care, as if by sifting.

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.

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