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Definição e significado de sift
Definição
sift (v. trans.)
1.distinguish and separate out"sift through the job candidates"
2.separate by passing through a sieve or other straining device to separate out coarser elements"sift the flour"
3.check and sort carefully"sift the information"
4.move as if through a sieve"The soldiers sifted through the woods"
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Merriam Webster
SiftSift (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Sifted; p. pr. & vb. n. Sifting.] [AS. siftan, from sife sieve. √151a. See Sieve.]
1. 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.
2. To separate or part as if with a sieve.
When yellow sands are sifted from below,
The glittering billows give a golden show. Dryden.
3. To examine critically or minutely; to scrutinize.
Sifting the very utmost sentence and syllable. Hooker.
Opportunity I here have had
To try thee, sift thee. Milton.
Let him but narrowly sift his ideas. I. Taylor.
To sift out, to search out with care, as if by sifting.
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Sinónimos
sift (v. trans.)
assort, classify, enquire, enquire into, examine, explore, ferret about in, filter, inquire, inquire into, investigate, riddle, scrutinise, search through, sieve, sift through, sort, sort out, strain, trace, unravel, winnow
sift (v. trans.) (colloquial)
ferret about in, husk, pare, search, search for, search through, skin, unravel
Ver também
sift (v. trans.)
↘ arrangement, assortment, categorisation, categorization, classification, compartmentalisation, compartmentalization, ranking, riddling, sieving, sifting, sort, sorting, sort-out ↗ screen, sieve
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Dicionario analógico
sift (v. tr.)
classer (fr)[Classe]
sift (v. tr.)
[colloquial]
sift (v. tr.)
sift (v. tr.)
récolter les céréales (fr)[Classe]
filter[Classe]
(sand), (desert wind), (sandy)[termes liés]
(farina; wheat flour; meal; wheatmeal)[termes liés]
separate[Hyper.]
screen, sieve[GenV+comp]
sifting, sluice gates, winnow, winnowing - sifter, sifter cap - sieve, strainer[Dérivé]
sift (v. tr.)
sift (v. tr.)
Wikipedia - ver também
Wikipedia
SIFT
SIFT may refer to:
- Shanghai Institute of Foreign Trade, a public university in Shanghai, China
- Scale-invariant feature transform, an algorithm in computer vision to detect and describe local features in images
- Selected ion flow tube, used for mass spectrometry
- Summer Institute for Future Teachers, a residential summer program at Eastern Connecticut State University
- Summary of Information on Film and Television (SIFT) database of British Film Institute National Library
See also
- Sieve (disambiguation), for the word "sift"
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