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Definition of Sift
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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. Related Definitions:
As, Coarse, Critically, Examine, Fine, Flour, From, If, Lime, Meal, Minutely, Of, Or, Part, Powder, Sand, Scrutinize, Separate, Sieve, Sift, Substance, The, To, With |
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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 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 The use of criticism, in periodical writing, is to sift, not to stamp a work. Margaret Fuller And when is there time to remember, to sift, to weigh, to estimate, to total? Tillie Olsen |
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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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