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What (who) is Sift - definition
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
SIFT (disambiguation); SIFT
sift
![An ''[[ami shakushi]]'', a Japanese ladle or scoop that may be used to remove small drops of batter during the frying of ''[[tempura]]''](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ami shakushi.Scoop.jpg?width=200 "An ''[[ami shakushi]]'', a Japanese ladle or scoop that may be used to remove small drops of batter during the frying of ''[[tempura]]''")
(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
SIFT
Software Implemeted Fault Tolerance (Reference: HIFT)
sift
v. a.
1.
Bolt.
2.
Separate, part.
3.
Scrutinize, probe, fathom, sound, try, analyze, investigate, canvass, discuss, examine critically, look into, follow up, inquire into.
Wikipedia
Sift (disambiguation)
Sift refers to the straining action of a sifter or sieve.
Sift or SIFT may also refer to:
- Scale-invariant feature transform, an algorithm in computer vision to detect and describe local features in images
- Selected-ion flow tube, a technique used for mass spectrometry
- Shanghai Institute of Foreign Trade, a public university in Shanghai, China
- Summary of Information on Film and Television, a database of the British Film Institute National Library
- Summer Institute for Future Teachers, a residential summer program at Eastern Connecticut State University
- SIFT (software), a digital forensics appliance
Examples of use of Sift
1. They will sift through the wreckage forensically.
2. Rescue workers were continuing to sift through debris.
3. But sift through this year‘s quadrennial US defence review and you get a steer.
4. Businesses say they already patrol job applications to sift out counterfeit documents.
5. Construction workers, helped by the Fire Department, have another, wrenching task as they sift through debris.