sift

IPA: sˈɪft

noun

  • (computer graphics) Initialism of scale-invariant feature transform.
  • (US, military) Initialism of Selection Instrument Flight Training.

verb

  • To sieve or strain (something).
  • To separate or scatter (things) as if by sieving.
  • To examine (something) carefully.
  • [+object] (archaic or old-fashioned) To scrutinise (someone or something) carefully so as to find the truth.
  • [+ through (object)] To carefully go through a set of objects, or a collection of information, in order to find something.
  • (computing, dated) To move data records up in memory to make space to insert further records.
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Examples of "sift" in Sentences

  • Sift the flour and the baking powder.
  • He and Danny sift through all the salt.
  • Sift the remaining malt and flour together.
  • Republicans sift through the ashes of defeat.
  • We sift the sources and we only use the best.
  • Investigators sift through facts, false information.
  • The Maidstone 'sift' hasn't actually taken place yet.
  • I have no time to sift through the rest at the moment.
  • And we have to, you know, kind of sift through the information.
  • Meera Maasi crouching on the floor to sift the stones from rice.
  • But the people were learned enough to sift through the vibrant knowledge.
  • Some cute things that you used to have to actually go in person to kind of sift through and figure out.
  • We talked about how it let me "sift" through tons of news and noise and pick things out for my friends to read.
  • Sift in the flour, baking powder, ground ginger, cinnamon, cloves and nutmeg, then slowly whisk in the beer/molasses mixture.
  • Does not recall that it was Alger's duty to "sift" cables and digest them and make oral report on contents to Sayre [as Hiss claimed].
  • In a later interview, Sayre repeated that he did "not recall that it was Alger's duty to 'sift' cables and digest them and make oral reports on contents."
  • As the syllables of Apatow's name sift through her mellifluous vocal chords, my pinball brain starts to tilt: You, Catherine Deneuve, are a Judd Apatow fan?
  • · The need to 'sift' the materials coming from China to screen out the bad while encouraging the high end manufacturers that produce superior quality ingredients.
  • On Monday, as you no doubt already know, Tina Brown and Barry Diller launched The Daily Beast, a Web site that promises to "sift" and "curate" the unruly Internet.
  • HANSEN: And people knowing about your accident will tend to kind of sift through your next project to find out ` Where do we find these nuggets of his own experience in here? '

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