Definition of Sift

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Definition of Sift

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.

To separate or part as if with a sieve.

To examine critically or minutely; to scrutinize.

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Sift Quotations

You cannot sift out the poor from the community. The poor are indispensable to the rich.
Henry Ward Beecher

The use of criticism, in periodical writing, is to sift, not to stamp a work.
Margaret Fuller

While it's wonderful that investors have access to all the data now available to them, it has become a full-time job to sift through it and separate out the valuable news from the useless noise.
Maria Bartiromo

We would sift through every inch of what it was that worked, or if it didn't, and wonder what was effective in it, in terms of paint, the subject matter, the size, the drawing.
Helen Frankenthaler

And when is there time to remember, to sift, to weigh, to estimate, to total?
Tillie Olsen

Trouble is a sieve through which we sift our acquaintances. Those too big to pass through are our friends.
Arlene Francis

Sift Translations

sift in Dutch is zeven, ziften
sift in French is tamiser, tamisons, tamisez, tamisent
sift in German is sieben, sichten
sift in Latin is cerno
sift in Spanish is cernir

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