sift
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English syften, from Old English siftan, from Proto-West Germanic *siftijan.
Inflected forms:
form: sifts
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: sifting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: sifted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: sifted
pos: verb
tags: past
form: sifts
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To sieve or strain (something).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To separate or scatter (things) as if by sieving.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To examine (something) carefully.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
dated
transitive
examples: As neere as I could ſift him on that argument,
On ſome apparant danger ſeene in him,
Aym‘d at your Highneſſe, no inueterate malice.
But if we still carry on our sifting humour, and ask, What is the foundation of all conclusions from experience ? this implies a new question.
It immediately occurred to him to sift her on the subject of Isabella and Theodore.
“I fear that there is something more serious than accident here, Mr. Brently,” said the captain. “I wish that you would make a personal and very careful examination of Mr. Caldwell’s effects, to ascertain if there is any clew to a motive either for suicide or murder—sift the thing to the bottom.”
Never, he said, in the course of his long experience, had he known a charge of murder rest on slighter evidence. Not only was it entirely circumstantial, but the greater part of it was practically unproved. Let them take the testimony they had heard and sift it impartially.
gloss: To examine (something) carefully.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Sifting through the work of great orators like Philostratus and Quintilian they identify numerous examples of classical irony, metaphor, comparison, etc. which are missing in Paul.
Britain’s police are especially zealous. Officers spend thousands of hours sifting through potentially offensive posts and arrest 30 people a day. Among those collared were a man who ranted about immigration on Facebook and a couple who criticised their daughter’s primary school.
gloss: To move data records up in memory to make space to insert further records.
pos: verb
tags: dated
transitive
gloss: An act of sifting.
pos: noun
Derived words: outsift
presift
resift
siftability
siftable
siftage
sifter
siftingly
sift out
siftproof
sift through
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: разглеждам щателно
roman: razgleždam štatelno
lang: Dutch
word: ziften
lang: Dutch
word: zeven
lang: Finnish
word: seuloa
lang: Finnish
word: tutkia
lang: West-Frisian
word: souje
lang: German
word: sichten
lang: German
word: durchgehen
lang: Italian
word: setacciare
lang: Italian
word: esaminare minuziosamente
lang: Latin
word: cernō
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: gjennomgå
lang: Portuguese
word: examinar minuciosamente
lang: Portuguese
word: discernir
lang: Romanian
word: cerne
lang: Spanish
word: examinar minuciosamente
lang: Spanish
word: juzgar
lang: Swedish
word: granska
lang: Telugu
word: గాలించు
roman: gāliñcu
lang: Thai
word: กลั่นกรอง
roman: glàn-grɔɔng
lang: Thai
word: ไตร่ตรอง
roman: dtrài-dtrɔɔng
lang: Thai
word: วินิจฉัย
roman: wí-nít-chǎi