English Explanatory Dictionary

sift

English dictionary entry

Meanings

verb
  1. To sieve or strain (something).
  2. To separate or scatter (things) as if by sieving.
  3. To examine (something) carefully.
  4. To scrutinize (someone or something) carefully so as to find the truth.
  5. [with through] To carefully go through a set of objects, or a collection of information, in order to find something.
  6. To move data records up in memory to make space to insert further records.
noun
  1. An act of sifting.
name
  1. Initialism of scale-invariant feature transform.
  2. Initialism of Selection Instrument Flight Training.

Pronunciation

/sɪft/ En-us-sift.ogg

Word forms

sift sifts sifting sifted

Etymology

From Middle English syften, from Old English siftan, from Proto-West Germanic *siftijan.

Derived words

outsift presift resift siftability siftable siftage sifter siftingly sift out siftproof sift through

Translations

Bulgarian: разглеждам щателно Dutch: ziften Dutch: zeven Finnish: seuloa Finnish: tutkia West-Frisian: souje German: sichten German: durchgehen Italian: setacciare Italian: esaminare minuziosamente Latin: cernō Norwegian Bokmål: gjennomgå Portuguese: examinar minuciosamente Portuguese: discernir Romanian: cerne Spanish: examinar minuciosamente Spanish: juzgar Swedish: granska Telugu: గాలించు Thai: กลั่นกรอง Thai: ไตร่ตรอง Thai: วินิจฉัย
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