Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary - sift
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Sift
sift
verb Etymology: Middle English, from Old English ~an; akin to Old English sife sieve Date: before 12th century transitive verb 1. a. to put through a sieve ~ flour b. to separate or separate out by or as if by putting through a sieve 2. to go through especially to sort out what is useful or valuable ~ed the evidence — often used with through ~ through a pile of old letters 3. to scatter by or as if by ~ing ~ sugar on a cake intransitive verb 1. to use a sieve 2. to pass or fall as if through a sieve • ~er noun
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1.
v. 1 tr. sieve (material) into finer and coarser parts. 2 tr. (usu. foll. by from, out) separate (finer or coarser parts) from material. 3 tr. sprinkle (esp. sugar) from a perforated container. 4 tr. examine (evidence, facts, etc.) in order to assess authenticity etc. 5 intr. (of snow, light, etc.) fall as if from a sieve. Phrases and idioms sift through examine by sifting. Derivatives sifter n. (also in comb.). Etymology: OE siftan f. WG ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
Большой Англо-русский Русско-английский политехнический словарь
Англо-русский Русско-английский научно-технический словарь
Англо-русский Русско-английский биологический словарь
5.
1. редк. просеивание 2. спец. просеянный материал 3. просеивать to sift flour from bran —- отсеивать отруби из муки 4. тех. грохотить; фильтровать 5. сеяться, просеиваться, проходить (о пыли, снеге) the snow sifted softly down —- тихо сыпался снег sand sifted into my shoe —- мне в туфлю насыпался песок the sunshine sifted through the cloud —- солнце просвечивало сквозь облако 6. посыпать через сито to sift sugar on to a cake —- посыпать пирог сахарной пудрой через сито 7. тщательно исследовать, скрупулезно анализировать to sift evidence —- тщательно изучать показания to sift a question to the bottom —- разобраться в каком-либо вопросе до конца 8. внимательно подбирать (работников); изучать кандидатуры (отсеивая неподходящие) ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
6.
out отделять, выделять (кого-л., что-л.) Sift out the most important names from this list of possible speakers. She sifted out the stones from the soil. SIFT v. 1) просеивать, отсеивать 2) сыпать, посыпать (сахаром и т.п.) 3) тщательно рассматривать, анализировать (факты и т.п.) 4) подробно допрашивать (кого-л.) - sift out ...Англо-русский словарь
7.
(sifts, sifting, sifted) 1. If you sift a powder such as flour or sand, you put it through a sieve in order to remove large pieces or lumps. Sift the flour and baking powder into a medium-sized mixing bowl. = sieve VERB: V n 2. If you sift through something such as evidence, you examine it thoroughly. Police officers have continued to sift through the wreckage following yesterday’s bomb attack... Brook has sifted the evidence and summarises it clearly. VERB: V through n, V n ...Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
8.
~ v 1 to put flour, sugar etc through a sieve or similar container in order to remove large pieces 2 also sift through to examine information, documents etc carefully in order to find something out or decide what is important and what is not (Police are sifting through the evidence in the hope of finding more clues.) sift sth out phr v to separate something from other things + from (It's hard to sift out the truth from the lies in this case.) ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
9.
ocean sc. abbr. Short-term Inundation Forecasting of Tsunamis project univ. abbr. Summer Institute For Future Teachers softw. abbr. Stanford Information Filtering Tool educ. abbr. Summer Institute For Future Teachers educ. abbr. Service Increment For Teaching educ. abbr. Scheduled Intentional Focused Time ...English abbreviation dictionary
10.
- O.E. siftan "pass something through a sieve," related to sife (see sieve). Metaphoric sense of "look carefully through" first recorded 1535. ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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