'SIFT' definitions:
Definition of 'sift'
(from WordNet)
verb
Move as if through a sieve; "The soldiers sifted through the woods"
verb
Separate by passing through a sieve or other straining device to separate out coarser elements; "sift the flour" [syn: sift, sieve, strain]
verb
Check and sort carefully; "sift the information" [syn: sieve, sift]
verb
Distinguish and separate out; "sift through the job candidates" [syn: sieve, sift]
Definition of 'Sift'
From: GCIDE
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To separate or part as if with a sieve. [1913 Webster]
- When yellow sands are sifted from below, The glittering billows give a golden show. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To examine critically or minutely; to scrutinize. [1913 Webster]
- Sifting the very utmost sentence and syllable. --Hooker. [1913 Webster]
- Opportunity I here have had To try thee, sift thee. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- Let him but narrowly sift his ideas. --I. Taylor. [1913 Webster]
- To sift out, to search out with care, as if by sifting. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'sift'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- air,
- analyze,
- appraise,
- assess,
- assort,
- bolt,
- canvass,
- catalog,
- categorize,
- choose,
- choose out,
- clarify,
- class,
- classify,
- clear,
- collate,
- comb,
- comment upon,
- consider,
- contradistinguish,
- controvert,
- cordon,
- cordon off,
- cull,
- cull out,
- deal with,
- debate,
- decide between,
- decrassify,
- deliberate,
- deliberate upon,
- delve into,
- demarcate,
- demark,
- depurate,
- differentiate,
- dig into,
- discourse about,
- discriminate,
- discuss,
- distill,
- distinguish,
- divide,
- draw the line,
- edulcorate,
- elute,
- essentialize,
- evaluate,
- examine,
- excerpt,
- exchange views,
- explore,
- extract,
- factor,
- fathom,
- filter,
- filtrate,
- gauge,
- ghettoize,
- gin,
- glean,
- go into,
- gradate,
- grade,
- group,
- handle,
- handpick,
- identify,
- indagate,
- inquire into,
- insulate,
- investigate,
- isolate,
- keep apart,
- keep aside,
- knock around,
- lay aside,
- leach,
- lixiviate,
- look into,
- make a selection,
- mark the interface,
- pass under review,
- peer into,
- percolate,
- pick,
- pick out,
- plumb,
- poke into,
- probe,
- prospect,
- pry into,
- purify,
- put aside,
- quarantine,
- rank,
- rap,
- reason,
- reason about,
- reason the point,
- rectify,
- refine,
- review,
- riddle,
- screen,
- screen out,
- scrutinize,
- search into,
- seclude,
- segregate,
- select,
- separate,
- set a limit,
- set apart,
- set aside,
- set off,
- sever,
- severalize,
- sieve,
- sieve out,
- sift out,
- single out,
- size,
- sort,
- sort out,
- sound,
- spiritualize,
- split hairs,
- strain,
- study,
- subdivide,
- sublimate,
- sublime,
- subordinate,
- subtilize,
- take up,
- talk,
- talk about,
- talk of,
- talk over,
- thrash,
- thrash out,
- thresh,
- thresh out,
- treat,
- try,
- ventilate,
- weed out,
- weigh,
- winnow
Acronyms for 'sift'
From: V.E.R.A.
- Software Implemented Fault Tolerance (HIFT)