Definition of sift in English:

sift

verb sɪftsɪft

[with object]

1Put (a fine or loose substance) through a sieve so as to remove lumps or large particles.
筛（微小颗粒、疏松或粉末状物质），筛分；过滤
sift the flour into a large bowl
将面粉筛进一个大碗中。
Example sentencesExamples
- Sift wholemeal flour, flour, soda and baking powder into a bowl.
- Some individuals and small teams sifted through the loose black schist, taking advantage of a small stream.
- I then sifted together powdered sugar and a cautious amount of cocoa.
- Realizing her mistake, she began to sift through the ashes once more
- Shirtless workers sifted through mounds of dry, reddish dirt with sieves as others added to the pile.
- Beat whites with caster sugar till stiff, sift icing sugar and cornflour together and fold into egg white mixture.
- Into a small bowl sift together flour, unsweetened cocoa powder, and salt.
- He also advised sifting the seedling soil mixture because they will tend to attach to large bits of bark for the moisture and it is very easy to damage tem when transplanting.
- Whip the cream until it just holds its shape and then stir in the sugar and sift in the cocoa.
- Add all the other ingredients - I sift everything to avoid lumps - and stir until smooth.
- To make the pastry, sift the flour and salt into a bowl and rub in the butter until the mixture resembles fine breadcrumbs.
- Many spend the day knee-deep in water sifting for diamonds.
- Sift flour into a large bowl and add the teaspoon of cinnamon.
- The gap created by the jagged edge which is now further into the lawn should be filled with garden soil, sifted to a fine tilth.
- To make the icing, sift the icing sugar into a bowl and add enough lemon juice to make a smooth paste that will coat the back of a spoon.
- It sifts the water, filtering out nutrients to help it grow.
- I don't sift dry ingredients (cocoa powder, flour and baking powder), although it is of course up to you.
- Then sift the mixture through a fine mesh strainer to make sure the oils mix thoroughly with the powder.
- Prepare the pasta by sifting the flour and a pinch of salt into a mound on a board. make a well in the centre and add the eggs.
- At the end of each session, we removed the seed trays and sifted the sand to recover the remaining millet seeds.
Synonyms
sieve, strain, screen, filter, riddle, purify, refine, winnow
archaic bolt, griddle
1. 1.1 Cause to flow or pass as through a sieve.
  （使）通过筛具般撒下，落下，通过
  Miranda sifted the warm sand through her fingers
  米兰达将暖和的沙子从指缝中落下。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Caleb sat down beside her and began sifting the sand through his fingers.
  He chuckled and sifted sand between his fingers.
  Ben knelt a bit unsteadily, letting the loose dirt sift through his fingers.
  As much as you can, let the tension sift from your muscles like grains of sand.
  Adam dismounted from Sport, stooped to the ground, and lifted a handful of ashes, which he let sift through his fingers.
  The question tickled something long hidden, perhaps a meadow where sifting, warm light still shone, a memory of gossamer rays wrapped round his body in all splendorous tranquility.
  Gemini awoke the next morning, not to her father prodding her in the side, but to a warm breeze sifting in through her window and the hot summer sun falling across her face.
  She'd listen to the soft sounds of the desert, and out there, it was so quiet at that time that she could hear the sand sifting across the desert.
  Zior shook off the memory as his attention shifted to a single figure that sifted through the crowd.
  Despite his awkward arrival, Howard smiled down at the sand a few centimeters beneath his nose, sifting a hand-full of the white granules through his fingers.
  Everywhere, the righteous folk of Cambridge are strolling the polleny avenues, letting the breeze sift their hair.
  But not all rotifers swim freely; some like the Flosculariacean rotifer above at center, will cement themselves by their foot to a handy alga or bit of dirt and sift the water for food.
  I grinned as I twisted my toes, letting the pale gold sand sift through them as I held the horse's head, letting his soft, horsy breath whisper into my ear, as if sharing a secret.
  The little spirit began to sift through my memories of Phoebe again.
  Three rivers flowed into the city, their waters sifting through the canal system before reaching the lake.
  David stood up, letting the soft sand sift through his open fingers.
  In the morning, he sat on the edge of the bed, the weight of another day upon him, light sifting dully in from under the window shade.
2. 1.2no object, with adverbial of direction (of snow, ash, etc.) descend lightly or sparsely as if sprinkled from a sieve.
  （雪、灰或光线等）轻轻撒落，轻轻飘落
  ash began to sift down round them
  灰尘开始在他们周围撒落下来。
  Example sentencesExamples
  She sprayed a gentle mist of elegant perfume, one dash on her neck, another sifting onto her cascading hair, and another for her wrists.
  Allow to cool slightly, then sift or spread brown sugar evenly over the top.
  When ready to serve, sift confectioners' sugar on top and slice like a pie.
  Nastasha's head rose and fell with the large intakes of air with each of his burly breaths, the fumes of the lime-laced vodka sifting through his nostrils.
  Join together and sift icing sugar over the top.
  More silence followed, more sand sifted through my fingers.
  Crex rugs were lighter than conventional, woven rugs, easy to clean (dirt simply sifted through), and cheaper.
  Coal dust sifts through her hair, invading eyes, nose, and mouth.
  Diamonds sparkle in the radiance of my headlamp as snow sifts from an ebony sky.
  Watch any good fell runner descending from a summit and it's like sand sifting through an egg timer.
  Sprinkle or sift 1/2 tsp. powdered sugar on top of each, then drizzle with lemon juice.
  In the dusk a fine snow of mosquitoes sifted through the candlelight.
  At that instant, sand began to sift out of the cracks between the stones in the wall behind Regis and accumulate on the floor.
  Snow was sifting down at Tiffindell ski resort near Rhodes yesterday morning, adding to over 25 cm which had fallen since Friday.
  Its massive back pushed up against the ceiling; the wooden timbers groaned and dust sifted down, making Rafe cough.
  The room was dark, and for a moment he did not know where he lay; then the memories began to sift back into his mind, like sand falling through an hourglass.
  So press your seed into the soil and then sift over them lightly some sandy soil or even just fine sand.
2Examine (something) thoroughly so as to isolate that which is most important.
〈喻〉筛选；遴选
until we sift the evidence ourselves, we can't comment objectively
只有等我们筛选出证据后，我们才能客观加以评论。
no object the fourth stage involves sifting through the data and evaluating it
第四阶段涉及筛选数据，并作出评价。
Example sentencesExamples
- The more I delved into sifting the reliable from the unreliable, the deeper I dropped into the well of discovery.
- For this reason, post-publication review is very important to sifting good theory from bad.
- It is the combined mass of efforts of journalists, and their analyses that sift the truth from the many layers of untruths, that provide the world information that it can act upon.
- I'm having the most enormous fun sifting through the mound of accumulated poems and haiku, bringing order and accord where there was none.
- There is a process of sifting and screening among MPs and frontbenchers which provides an informal shortlist of possible leaders.
- The conventional wisdom can change as new evidence is sifted through.
- Having retired from the school last summer, he is now beginning the laborious process of sifting through his enormous archive and is writing a history of the period.
- I poured myself some orange juice as Aurora began to sift through the cupboards for pancake mix.
- He was in Europe preparing for the Commonwealth Games and I was at home sifting and sorting through his personal belongings and boxing them up.
- Planning time for teachers was established, and we began to sift through the resource materials and supply closet.
- Lord Hutton was asked to do a specific job: to take evidence, sift it, and reach conclusions.
- Rummaging through a small compartment next to her, she began to sift through old cards and small papers that she might need later on.
- As he sifts through the works of scientists, naturalists, composers and poets, Rothenberg performs intellectual contortions in an attempt to assemble or establish a unified theory of why birds sing.
- She turned to her paper work and began to sift through the information, taking notes and reminding herself to talk to Nathan about certain things.
- They sifted through more than 4,000 poems before drawing up a shortlist of the 12 finalists.
- Greg steps forwards and begins to sift through the clothes.
- Three quarters of that was spent sifting choices down to twelve of my favourite songs and favourite songwriters.
- I crouched on the floor and dumped the contents of the waste basket out in front of me and began to sift through it.
- Tristyn picked up the pile and began to sift through the letters one by one, setting the bills in one pile for her next call with her mother, her mother's personal mail and her own.
- You will find information on the specific techniques that different search engines use to sift their data into the most effective lists.
Synonyms
search through, look through, rummage through, root about/around in, ferret (about/around) in, poke around in, go through, turn over, explore, examine, inspect, scrutinize, pore over, investigate, conduct investigations into, enquire into, conduct an enquiry into, delve into, go into, analyse, screen, sieve, probe, dissect, review, assess
British informal rootle around in
Australian/New Zealand informal fossick through
rare roust around in
1. 2.1sift something out Separate something, especially something to be discarded, from something else.
  使分开，剔除
  he asked for streamlined procedures to sift out frivolous applications
  他要求简化程序，剔除无意义的申请。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Sea squirts spend most of their lives attached to underwater rocks, sifting tiny particles of food from the water around them.
  FitzGerald had done what he does best - sifted gems out of public statistics.
  In these stories he sets himself the objective of sifting out the strongest elements that can be utilized within prose, leaving strong ideas and reflections.
  At any rate, it took quite some time to dig out the weeds and sift out the roots and begin grading.
  Loedolff is busy sifting out undesirable works in the collection, and has been selling prints and oils that don't fit the profile of the collection.
  One of the positive aspects of the dotcom slump was that many pseudo-web designers were sifted out.
  Faced with ideas that negated their newly claimed identities, they neither argued nor capitulated, but simply left - thereby definitively sifting such ideas out of their religious beliefs.
  And when Elizabeti tries to sift the rocks out of the rice, Obedi slaps at the basket and spills some of the rice on the ground.
  Synonyms
  separate out, filter out, sort out, isolate, divide, part, segregate, put to one side, weed out, get rid of, remove

noun sɪftsɪft

1usually in singular An act of sifting something, especially so as to isolate that which is most important.
〈喻〉筛选；遴选
a careful archaeological sift must be made through the debris
必须对瓦砾进行细致的考古筛选工作。
Example sentencesExamples
- I only installed the ones that looked common or interesting figuring I can also have a proper sift through later if I'm looking for something special.
- Can the constable who is executing the warrant do a preliminary sift at the premises where the documents are stored, and then take all, or a large part of the material away to sort it out properly elsewhere?
- Have a sift through and leave a comment to tell me what you think, particularly if you come across any bugs of any sort.
- And the way these used to work was that they would have each applicant come onto the stage and play a short piece of music and they'd do a very quick sift.
- The first stage was a sift of application forms based on their degree and previous academic achievements, and an analysis of some simple competency based responses.
- These figures suggest that the sift did not discriminate against people on the basis of which university they had attended.
- A sift of the questionnaires should be undertaken prior to inputting information.
- I decided to have a sift around the net and see what I could find.
1. 1.1 An amount of sifted material.
  筛过的原料
  the floor was dusted with a fine sift of flour
  地板上撒满了筛过的精细面粉。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Add a few drops of water or a sift of flour as needed to get the desired texture.
  Bundt cakes are so pretty, they don't need more than a sift of powdered sugar or a drizzle of simple syrup.

Derivatives

sifter

noun ˈsɪftəˈsɪftər

Men would enter the spray chamber, lift a floor hatch and manually sweep accumulated powder through the opened floor hatch to a powder sifter below.
Example sentencesExamples
- We had flour on a tarp in the yard with sifters and measuring cups, bubble juice, face paints, and my son's favorite messy item: shaving cream.
- Sugar sifters were used to sprinkle granulated or powdered sugar liberally not only on fresh fruit but also on sweet pastries, and the cream ladle was used to add fresh or clotted cream.
- The upper compartments of the mill contain, in the center, the main millstones and, to the right, a reciprocator working a flour sifter, each of them powered by a horizontal waterwheel.
- The powder is filtered through a coarse sifter and put away in canvas bags.

Origin

Old English siftan, of West Germanic origin; related to Dutch ziften, also to sieve.

Rhymes

adrift, drift, gift, grift, lift, rift, shift, shrift, squiffed, swift, thrift, uplift

Definition of sift in US English:

sift

verbsɪftsift

[with object]

1Put (a fine, loose, or powdery substance) through a sieve so as to remove lumps or large particles.
筛（微小颗粒、疏松或粉末状物质），筛分；过滤
sift the flour into a large bowl
将面粉筛进一个大碗中。
Example sentencesExamples
- Shirtless workers sifted through mounds of dry, reddish dirt with sieves as others added to the pile.
- At the end of each session, we removed the seed trays and sifted the sand to recover the remaining millet seeds.
- Some individuals and small teams sifted through the loose black schist, taking advantage of a small stream.
- Prepare the pasta by sifting the flour and a pinch of salt into a mound on a board. make a well in the centre and add the eggs.
- I don't sift dry ingredients (cocoa powder, flour and baking powder), although it is of course up to you.
- Add all the other ingredients - I sift everything to avoid lumps - and stir until smooth.
- Realizing her mistake, she began to sift through the ashes once more
- I then sifted together powdered sugar and a cautious amount of cocoa.
- Many spend the day knee-deep in water sifting for diamonds.
- To make the icing, sift the icing sugar into a bowl and add enough lemon juice to make a smooth paste that will coat the back of a spoon.
- Into a small bowl sift together flour, unsweetened cocoa powder, and salt.
- Sift flour into a large bowl and add the teaspoon of cinnamon.
- Sift wholemeal flour, flour, soda and baking powder into a bowl.
- Then sift the mixture through a fine mesh strainer to make sure the oils mix thoroughly with the powder.
- To make the pastry, sift the flour and salt into a bowl and rub in the butter until the mixture resembles fine breadcrumbs.
- He also advised sifting the seedling soil mixture because they will tend to attach to large bits of bark for the moisture and it is very easy to damage tem when transplanting.
- It sifts the water, filtering out nutrients to help it grow.
- Whip the cream until it just holds its shape and then stir in the sugar and sift in the cocoa.
- The gap created by the jagged edge which is now further into the lawn should be filled with garden soil, sifted to a fine tilth.
- Beat whites with caster sugar till stiff, sift icing sugar and cornflour together and fold into egg white mixture.
Synonyms
sieve, strain, screen, filter, riddle, purify, refine, winnow
1. 1.1 Cause to flow or pass as through a sieve.
  （使）通过筛具般撒下，落下，通过
  Melanie sifted the warm sand through her fingers
  米兰达将暖和的沙子从指缝中落下。
  Example sentencesExamples
  As much as you can, let the tension sift from your muscles like grains of sand.
  The little spirit began to sift through my memories of Phoebe again.
  Caleb sat down beside her and began sifting the sand through his fingers.
  Ben knelt a bit unsteadily, letting the loose dirt sift through his fingers.
  Gemini awoke the next morning, not to her father prodding her in the side, but to a warm breeze sifting in through her window and the hot summer sun falling across her face.
  But not all rotifers swim freely; some like the Flosculariacean rotifer above at center, will cement themselves by their foot to a handy alga or bit of dirt and sift the water for food.
  Everywhere, the righteous folk of Cambridge are strolling the polleny avenues, letting the breeze sift their hair.
  In the morning, he sat on the edge of the bed, the weight of another day upon him, light sifting dully in from under the window shade.
  Zior shook off the memory as his attention shifted to a single figure that sifted through the crowd.
  I grinned as I twisted my toes, letting the pale gold sand sift through them as I held the horse's head, letting his soft, horsy breath whisper into my ear, as if sharing a secret.
  Three rivers flowed into the city, their waters sifting through the canal system before reaching the lake.
  Adam dismounted from Sport, stooped to the ground, and lifted a handful of ashes, which he let sift through his fingers.
  Despite his awkward arrival, Howard smiled down at the sand a few centimeters beneath his nose, sifting a hand-full of the white granules through his fingers.
  He chuckled and sifted sand between his fingers.
  David stood up, letting the soft sand sift through his open fingers.
  The question tickled something long hidden, perhaps a meadow where sifting, warm light still shone, a memory of gossamer rays wrapped round his body in all splendorous tranquility.
  She'd listen to the soft sounds of the desert, and out there, it was so quiet at that time that she could hear the sand sifting across the desert.
2. 1.2no object, with adverbial of direction (of snow, ash, etc.) descend or float down lightly or sparsely as if sprinkled from a sieve.
  （雪、灰或光线等）轻轻撒落，轻轻飘落
  ash began to sift down around them
  灰尘开始在他们周围撒落下来。
  Example sentencesExamples
  The room was dark, and for a moment he did not know where he lay; then the memories began to sift back into his mind, like sand falling through an hourglass.
  Sprinkle or sift 1/2 tsp. powdered sugar on top of each, then drizzle with lemon juice.
  So press your seed into the soil and then sift over them lightly some sandy soil or even just fine sand.
  Join together and sift icing sugar over the top.
  Diamonds sparkle in the radiance of my headlamp as snow sifts from an ebony sky.
  Watch any good fell runner descending from a summit and it's like sand sifting through an egg timer.
  At that instant, sand began to sift out of the cracks between the stones in the wall behind Regis and accumulate on the floor.
  When ready to serve, sift confectioners' sugar on top and slice like a pie.
  Its massive back pushed up against the ceiling; the wooden timbers groaned and dust sifted down, making Rafe cough.
  Coal dust sifts through her hair, invading eyes, nose, and mouth.
  She sprayed a gentle mist of elegant perfume, one dash on her neck, another sifting onto her cascading hair, and another for her wrists.
  Snow was sifting down at Tiffindell ski resort near Rhodes yesterday morning, adding to over 25 cm which had fallen since Friday.
  More silence followed, more sand sifted through my fingers.
  Nastasha's head rose and fell with the large intakes of air with each of his burly breaths, the fumes of the lime-laced vodka sifting through his nostrils.
  Crex rugs were lighter than conventional, woven rugs, easy to clean (dirt simply sifted through), and cheaper.
  Allow to cool slightly, then sift or spread brown sugar evenly over the top.
  In the dusk a fine snow of mosquitoes sifted through the candlelight.
2Examine (something) thoroughly so as to isolate that which is most important or useful.
〈喻〉筛选；遴选
until we sift the evidence ourselves, we can't comment objectively
只有等我们筛选出证据后，我们才能客观加以评论。
no object the fourth stage involves sifting through the data and evaluating it
第四阶段涉及筛选数据，并作出评价。
Example sentencesExamples
- Greg steps forwards and begins to sift through the clothes.
- For this reason, post-publication review is very important to sifting good theory from bad.
- I crouched on the floor and dumped the contents of the waste basket out in front of me and began to sift through it.
- Rummaging through a small compartment next to her, she began to sift through old cards and small papers that she might need later on.
- Tristyn picked up the pile and began to sift through the letters one by one, setting the bills in one pile for her next call with her mother, her mother's personal mail and her own.
- The more I delved into sifting the reliable from the unreliable, the deeper I dropped into the well of discovery.
- Having retired from the school last summer, he is now beginning the laborious process of sifting through his enormous archive and is writing a history of the period.
- As he sifts through the works of scientists, naturalists, composers and poets, Rothenberg performs intellectual contortions in an attempt to assemble or establish a unified theory of why birds sing.
- He was in Europe preparing for the Commonwealth Games and I was at home sifting and sorting through his personal belongings and boxing them up.
- I'm having the most enormous fun sifting through the mound of accumulated poems and haiku, bringing order and accord where there was none.
- I poured myself some orange juice as Aurora began to sift through the cupboards for pancake mix.
- It is the combined mass of efforts of journalists, and their analyses that sift the truth from the many layers of untruths, that provide the world information that it can act upon.
- She turned to her paper work and began to sift through the information, taking notes and reminding herself to talk to Nathan about certain things.
- They sifted through more than 4,000 poems before drawing up a shortlist of the 12 finalists.
- The conventional wisdom can change as new evidence is sifted through.
- You will find information on the specific techniques that different search engines use to sift their data into the most effective lists.
- Planning time for teachers was established, and we began to sift through the resource materials and supply closet.
- There is a process of sifting and screening among MPs and frontbenchers which provides an informal shortlist of possible leaders.
- Three quarters of that was spent sifting choices down to twelve of my favourite songs and favourite songwriters.
- Lord Hutton was asked to do a specific job: to take evidence, sift it, and reach conclusions.
Synonyms
search through, look through, rummage through, root about in, root around in, ferret in, ferret about in, ferret around in, poke around in, go through, turn over, explore, examine, inspect, scrutinize, pore over, investigate, conduct investigations into, enquire into, conduct an enquiry into, delve into, go into, analyse, screen, sieve, probe, dissect, review, assess
1. 2.1sift something out Separate something, especially something to be discarded, from something else.
  使分开，剔除
  he asked for streamlined procedures to sift out frivolous applications
  他要求简化程序，剔除无意义的申请。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Loedolff is busy sifting out undesirable works in the collection, and has been selling prints and oils that don't fit the profile of the collection.
  Sea squirts spend most of their lives attached to underwater rocks, sifting tiny particles of food from the water around them.
  At any rate, it took quite some time to dig out the weeds and sift out the roots and begin grading.
  Faced with ideas that negated their newly claimed identities, they neither argued nor capitulated, but simply left - thereby definitively sifting such ideas out of their religious beliefs.
  One of the positive aspects of the dotcom slump was that many pseudo-web designers were sifted out.
  And when Elizabeti tries to sift the rocks out of the rice, Obedi slaps at the basket and spills some of the rice on the ground.
  In these stories he sets himself the objective of sifting out the strongest elements that can be utilized within prose, leaving strong ideas and reflections.
  FitzGerald had done what he does best - sifted gems out of public statistics.
  Synonyms
  separate out, filter out, sort out, isolate, divide, part, segregate, put to one side, weed out, get rid of, remove

nounsɪftsift

1usually in singular An act of sifting something, especially so as to isolate that which is most important or useful.
〈喻〉筛选；遴选
a careful archaeological sift must be made through the debris
必须对瓦砾进行细致的考古筛选工作。
Example sentencesExamples
- I only installed the ones that looked common or interesting figuring I can also have a proper sift through later if I'm looking for something special.
- And the way these used to work was that they would have each applicant come onto the stage and play a short piece of music and they'd do a very quick sift.
- The first stage was a sift of application forms based on their degree and previous academic achievements, and an analysis of some simple competency based responses.
- Can the constable who is executing the warrant do a preliminary sift at the premises where the documents are stored, and then take all, or a large part of the material away to sort it out properly elsewhere?
- These figures suggest that the sift did not discriminate against people on the basis of which university they had attended.
- Have a sift through and leave a comment to tell me what you think, particularly if you come across any bugs of any sort.
- I decided to have a sift around the net and see what I could find.
- A sift of the questionnaires should be undertaken prior to inputting information.
1. 1.1 An amount of sifted material.
  筛过的原料
  the floor was dusted with a fine sift of flour
  地板上撒满了筛过的精细面粉。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Bundt cakes are so pretty, they don't need more than a sift of powdered sugar or a drizzle of simple syrup.
  Add a few drops of water or a sift of flour as needed to get the desired texture.

Origin

Old English siftan, of West Germanic origin; related to Dutch ziften, also to sieve.

单词	sift
释义	Definition of sift in English: sift verb sɪftsɪft [with object] 1Put (a fine or loose substance) through a sieve so as to remove lumps or large particles. 筛（微小颗粒、疏松或粉末状物质），筛分；过滤 sift the flour into a large bowl 将面粉筛进一个大碗中。 Example sentencesExamples Sift wholemeal flour, flour, soda and baking powder into a bowl. Some individuals and small teams sifted through the loose black schist, taking advantage of a small stream. I then sifted together powdered sugar and a cautious amount of cocoa. Realizing her mistake, she began to sift through the ashes once more Shirtless workers sifted through mounds of dry, reddish dirt with sieves as others added to the pile. Beat whites with caster sugar till stiff, sift icing sugar and cornflour together and fold into egg white mixture. Into a small bowl sift together flour, unsweetened cocoa powder, and salt. He also advised sifting the seedling soil mixture because they will tend to attach to large bits of bark for the moisture and it is very easy to damage tem when transplanting. Whip the cream until it just holds its shape and then stir in the sugar and sift in the cocoa. Add all the other ingredients - I sift everything to avoid lumps - and stir until smooth. To make the pastry, sift the flour and salt into a bowl and rub in the butter until the mixture resembles fine breadcrumbs. Many spend the day knee-deep in water sifting for diamonds. Sift flour into a large bowl and add the teaspoon of cinnamon. The gap created by the jagged edge which is now further into the lawn should be filled with garden soil, sifted to a fine tilth. To make the icing, sift the icing sugar into a bowl and add enough lemon juice to make a smooth paste that will coat the back of a spoon. It sifts the water, filtering out nutrients to help it grow. I don't sift dry ingredients (cocoa powder, flour and baking powder), although it is of course up to you. Then sift the mixture through a fine mesh strainer to make sure the oils mix thoroughly with the powder. Prepare the pasta by sifting the flour and a pinch of salt into a mound on a board. make a well in the centre and add the eggs. At the end of each session, we removed the seed trays and sifted the sand to recover the remaining millet seeds. Synonyms sieve, strain, screen, filter, riddle, purify, refine, winnow archaic bolt, griddle 1.1 Cause to flow or pass as through a sieve. （使）通过筛具般撒下，落下，通过 Miranda sifted the warm sand through her fingers 米兰达将暖和的沙子从指缝中落下。 Example sentencesExamples Caleb sat down beside her and began sifting the sand through his fingers. He chuckled and sifted sand between his fingers. Ben knelt a bit unsteadily, letting the loose dirt sift through his fingers. As much as you can, let the tension sift from your muscles like grains of sand. Adam dismounted from Sport, stooped to the ground, and lifted a handful of ashes, which he let sift through his fingers. The question tickled something long hidden, perhaps a meadow where sifting, warm light still shone, a memory of gossamer rays wrapped round his body in all splendorous tranquility. Gemini awoke the next morning, not to her father prodding her in the side, but to a warm breeze sifting in through her window and the hot summer sun falling across her face. She'd listen to the soft sounds of the desert, and out there, it was so quiet at that time that she could hear the sand sifting across the desert. Zior shook off the memory as his attention shifted to a single figure that sifted through the crowd. Despite his awkward arrival, Howard smiled down at the sand a few centimeters beneath his nose, sifting a hand-full of the white granules through his fingers. Everywhere, the righteous folk of Cambridge are strolling the polleny avenues, letting the breeze sift their hair. But not all rotifers swim freely; some like the Flosculariacean rotifer above at center, will cement themselves by their foot to a handy alga or bit of dirt and sift the water for food. I grinned as I twisted my toes, letting the pale gold sand sift through them as I held the horse's head, letting his soft, horsy breath whisper into my ear, as if sharing a secret. The little spirit began to sift through my memories of Phoebe again. Three rivers flowed into the city, their waters sifting through the canal system before reaching the lake. David stood up, letting the soft sand sift through his open fingers. In the morning, he sat on the edge of the bed, the weight of another day upon him, light sifting dully in from under the window shade. 1.2no object, with adverbial of direction (of snow, ash, etc.) descend lightly or sparsely as if sprinkled from a sieve. （雪、灰或光线等）轻轻撒落，轻轻飘落 ash began to sift down round them 灰尘开始在他们周围撒落下来。 Example sentencesExamples She sprayed a gentle mist of elegant perfume, one dash on her neck, another sifting onto her cascading hair, and another for her wrists. Allow to cool slightly, then sift or spread brown sugar evenly over the top. When ready to serve, sift confectioners' sugar on top and slice like a pie. Nastasha's head rose and fell with the large intakes of air with each of his burly breaths, the fumes of the lime-laced vodka sifting through his nostrils. Join together and sift icing sugar over the top. More silence followed, more sand sifted through my fingers. Crex rugs were lighter than conventional, woven rugs, easy to clean (dirt simply sifted through), and cheaper. Coal dust sifts through her hair, invading eyes, nose, and mouth. Diamonds sparkle in the radiance of my headlamp as snow sifts from an ebony sky. Watch any good fell runner descending from a summit and it's like sand sifting through an egg timer. Sprinkle or sift 1/2 tsp. powdered sugar on top of each, then drizzle with lemon juice. In the dusk a fine snow of mosquitoes sifted through the candlelight. At that instant, sand began to sift out of the cracks between the stones in the wall behind Regis and accumulate on the floor. Snow was sifting down at Tiffindell ski resort near Rhodes yesterday morning, adding to over 25 cm which had fallen since Friday. Its massive back pushed up against the ceiling; the wooden timbers groaned and dust sifted down, making Rafe cough. The room was dark, and for a moment he did not know where he lay; then the memories began to sift back into his mind, like sand falling through an hourglass. So press your seed into the soil and then sift over them lightly some sandy soil or even just fine sand. 2Examine (something) thoroughly so as to isolate that which is most important. 〈喻〉筛选；遴选 until we sift the evidence ourselves, we can't comment objectively 只有等我们筛选出证据后，我们才能客观加以评论。 no object the fourth stage involves sifting through the data and evaluating it 第四阶段涉及筛选数据，并作出评价。 Example sentencesExamples The more I delved into sifting the reliable from the unreliable, the deeper I dropped into the well of discovery. For this reason, post-publication review is very important to sifting good theory from bad. It is the combined mass of efforts of journalists, and their analyses that sift the truth from the many layers of untruths, that provide the world information that it can act upon. I'm having the most enormous fun sifting through the mound of accumulated poems and haiku, bringing order and accord where there was none. There is a process of sifting and screening among MPs and frontbenchers which provides an informal shortlist of possible leaders. The conventional wisdom can change as new evidence is sifted through. Having retired from the school last summer, he is now beginning the laborious process of sifting through his enormous archive and is writing a history of the period. I poured myself some orange juice as Aurora began to sift through the cupboards for pancake mix. He was in Europe preparing for the Commonwealth Games and I was at home sifting and sorting through his personal belongings and boxing them up. Planning time for teachers was established, and we began to sift through the resource materials and supply closet. Lord Hutton was asked to do a specific job: to take evidence, sift it, and reach conclusions. Rummaging through a small compartment next to her, she began to sift through old cards and small papers that she might need later on. As he sifts through the works of scientists, naturalists, composers and poets, Rothenberg performs intellectual contortions in an attempt to assemble or establish a unified theory of why birds sing. She turned to her paper work and began to sift through the information, taking notes and reminding herself to talk to Nathan about certain things. They sifted through more than 4,000 poems before drawing up a shortlist of the 12 finalists. Greg steps forwards and begins to sift through the clothes. Three quarters of that was spent sifting choices down to twelve of my favourite songs and favourite songwriters. I crouched on the floor and dumped the contents of the waste basket out in front of me and began to sift through it. Tristyn picked up the pile and began to sift through the letters one by one, setting the bills in one pile for her next call with her mother, her mother's personal mail and her own. You will find information on the specific techniques that different search engines use to sift their data into the most effective lists. Synonyms search through, look through, rummage through, root about/around in, ferret (about/around) in, poke around in, go through, turn over, explore, examine, inspect, scrutinize, pore over, investigate, conduct investigations into, enquire into, conduct an enquiry into, delve into, go into, analyse, screen, sieve, probe, dissect, review, assess British informal rootle around in Australian/New Zealand informal fossick through rare roust around in 2.1sift something out Separate something, especially something to be discarded, from something else. 使分开，剔除 he asked for streamlined procedures to sift out frivolous applications 他要求简化程序，剔除无意义的申请。 Example sentencesExamples Sea squirts spend most of their lives attached to underwater rocks, sifting tiny particles of food from the water around them. FitzGerald had done what he does best - sifted gems out of public statistics. In these stories he sets himself the objective of sifting out the strongest elements that can be utilized within prose, leaving strong ideas and reflections. At any rate, it took quite some time to dig out the weeds and sift out the roots and begin grading. Loedolff is busy sifting out undesirable works in the collection, and has been selling prints and oils that don't fit the profile of the collection. One of the positive aspects of the dotcom slump was that many pseudo-web designers were sifted out. Faced with ideas that negated their newly claimed identities, they neither argued nor capitulated, but simply left - thereby definitively sifting such ideas out of their religious beliefs. And when Elizabeti tries to sift the rocks out of the rice, Obedi slaps at the basket and spills some of the rice on the ground. Synonyms separate out, filter out, sort out, isolate, divide, part, segregate, put to one side, weed out, get rid of, remove noun sɪftsɪft 1usually in singular An act of sifting something, especially so as to isolate that which is most important. 〈喻〉筛选；遴选 a careful archaeological sift must be made through the debris 必须对瓦砾进行细致的考古筛选工作。 Example sentencesExamples I only installed the ones that looked common or interesting figuring I can also have a proper sift through later if I'm looking for something special. Can the constable who is executing the warrant do a preliminary sift at the premises where the documents are stored, and then take all, or a large part of the material away to sort it out properly elsewhere? Have a sift through and leave a comment to tell me what you think, particularly if you come across any bugs of any sort. And the way these used to work was that they would have each applicant come onto the stage and play a short piece of music and they'd do a very quick sift. The first stage was a sift of application forms based on their degree and previous academic achievements, and an analysis of some simple competency based responses. These figures suggest that the sift did not discriminate against people on the basis of which university they had attended. A sift of the questionnaires should be undertaken prior to inputting information. I decided to have a sift around the net and see what I could find. 1.1 An amount of sifted material. 筛过的原料 the floor was dusted with a fine sift of flour 地板上撒满了筛过的精细面粉。 Example sentencesExamples Add a few drops of water or a sift of flour as needed to get the desired texture. Bundt cakes are so pretty, they don't need more than a sift of powdered sugar or a drizzle of simple syrup. Derivatives sifter noun ˈsɪftəˈsɪftər Men would enter the spray chamber, lift a floor hatch and manually sweep accumulated powder through the opened floor hatch to a powder sifter below. Example sentencesExamples We had flour on a tarp in the yard with sifters and measuring cups, bubble juice, face paints, and my son's favorite messy item: shaving cream. Sugar sifters were used to sprinkle granulated or powdered sugar liberally not only on fresh fruit but also on sweet pastries, and the cream ladle was used to add fresh or clotted cream. The upper compartments of the mill contain, in the center, the main millstones and, to the right, a reciprocator working a flour sifter, each of them powered by a horizontal waterwheel. The powder is filtered through a coarse sifter and put away in canvas bags. Origin Old English siftan, of West Germanic origin; related to Dutch ziften, also to sieve. Rhymes adrift, drift, gift, grift, lift, rift, shift, shrift, squiffed, swift, thrift, uplift Definition of sift in US English: sift verbsɪftsift [with object] 1Put (a fine, loose, or powdery substance) through a sieve so as to remove lumps or large particles. 筛（微小颗粒、疏松或粉末状物质），筛分；过滤 sift the flour into a large bowl 将面粉筛进一个大碗中。 Example sentencesExamples Shirtless workers sifted through mounds of dry, reddish dirt with sieves as others added to the pile. At the end of each session, we removed the seed trays and sifted the sand to recover the remaining millet seeds. Some individuals and small teams sifted through the loose black schist, taking advantage of a small stream. Prepare the pasta by sifting the flour and a pinch of salt into a mound on a board. make a well in the centre and add the eggs. I don't sift dry ingredients (cocoa powder, flour and baking powder), although it is of course up to you. Add all the other ingredients - I sift everything to avoid lumps - and stir until smooth. Realizing her mistake, she began to sift through the ashes once more I then sifted together powdered sugar and a cautious amount of cocoa. Many spend the day knee-deep in water sifting for diamonds. To make the icing, sift the icing sugar into a bowl and add enough lemon juice to make a smooth paste that will coat the back of a spoon. Into a small bowl sift together flour, unsweetened cocoa powder, and salt. Sift flour into a large bowl and add the teaspoon of cinnamon. Sift wholemeal flour, flour, soda and baking powder into a bowl. Then sift the mixture through a fine mesh strainer to make sure the oils mix thoroughly with the powder. To make the pastry, sift the flour and salt into a bowl and rub in the butter until the mixture resembles fine breadcrumbs. He also advised sifting the seedling soil mixture because they will tend to attach to large bits of bark for the moisture and it is very easy to damage tem when transplanting. It sifts the water, filtering out nutrients to help it grow. Whip the cream until it just holds its shape and then stir in the sugar and sift in the cocoa. The gap created by the jagged edge which is now further into the lawn should be filled with garden soil, sifted to a fine tilth. Beat whites with caster sugar till stiff, sift icing sugar and cornflour together and fold into egg white mixture. Synonyms sieve, strain, screen, filter, riddle, purify, refine, winnow 1.1 Cause to flow or pass as through a sieve. （使）通过筛具般撒下，落下，通过 Melanie sifted the warm sand through her fingers 米兰达将暖和的沙子从指缝中落下。 Example sentencesExamples As much as you can, let the tension sift from your muscles like grains of sand. The little spirit began to sift through my memories of Phoebe again. Caleb sat down beside her and began sifting the sand through his fingers. Ben knelt a bit unsteadily, letting the loose dirt sift through his fingers. Gemini awoke the next morning, not to her father prodding her in the side, but to a warm breeze sifting in through her window and the hot summer sun falling across her face. But not all rotifers swim freely; some like the Flosculariacean rotifer above at center, will cement themselves by their foot to a handy alga or bit of dirt and sift the water for food. Everywhere, the righteous folk of Cambridge are strolling the polleny avenues, letting the breeze sift their hair. In the morning, he sat on the edge of the bed, the weight of another day upon him, light sifting dully in from under the window shade. Zior shook off the memory as his attention shifted to a single figure that sifted through the crowd. I grinned as I twisted my toes, letting the pale gold sand sift through them as I held the horse's head, letting his soft, horsy breath whisper into my ear, as if sharing a secret. Three rivers flowed into the city, their waters sifting through the canal system before reaching the lake. Adam dismounted from Sport, stooped to the ground, and lifted a handful of ashes, which he let sift through his fingers. Despite his awkward arrival, Howard smiled down at the sand a few centimeters beneath his nose, sifting a hand-full of the white granules through his fingers. He chuckled and sifted sand between his fingers. David stood up, letting the soft sand sift through his open fingers. The question tickled something long hidden, perhaps a meadow where sifting, warm light still shone, a memory of gossamer rays wrapped round his body in all splendorous tranquility. She'd listen to the soft sounds of the desert, and out there, it was so quiet at that time that she could hear the sand sifting across the desert. 1.2no object, with adverbial of direction (of snow, ash, etc.) descend or float down lightly or sparsely as if sprinkled from a sieve. （雪、灰或光线等）轻轻撒落，轻轻飘落 ash began to sift down around them 灰尘开始在他们周围撒落下来。 Example sentencesExamples The room was dark, and for a moment he did not know where he lay; then the memories began to sift back into his mind, like sand falling through an hourglass. Sprinkle or sift 1/2 tsp. powdered sugar on top of each, then drizzle with lemon juice. So press your seed into the soil and then sift over them lightly some sandy soil or even just fine sand. Join together and sift icing sugar over the top. Diamonds sparkle in the radiance of my headlamp as snow sifts from an ebony sky. Watch any good fell runner descending from a summit and it's like sand sifting through an egg timer. At that instant, sand began to sift out of the cracks between the stones in the wall behind Regis and accumulate on the floor. When ready to serve, sift confectioners' sugar on top and slice like a pie. Its massive back pushed up against the ceiling; the wooden timbers groaned and dust sifted down, making Rafe cough. Coal dust sifts through her hair, invading eyes, nose, and mouth. She sprayed a gentle mist of elegant perfume, one dash on her neck, another sifting onto her cascading hair, and another for her wrists. Snow was sifting down at Tiffindell ski resort near Rhodes yesterday morning, adding to over 25 cm which had fallen since Friday. More silence followed, more sand sifted through my fingers. Nastasha's head rose and fell with the large intakes of air with each of his burly breaths, the fumes of the lime-laced vodka sifting through his nostrils. Crex rugs were lighter than conventional, woven rugs, easy to clean (dirt simply sifted through), and cheaper. Allow to cool slightly, then sift or spread brown sugar evenly over the top. In the dusk a fine snow of mosquitoes sifted through the candlelight. 2Examine (something) thoroughly so as to isolate that which is most important or useful. 〈喻〉筛选；遴选 until we sift the evidence ourselves, we can't comment objectively 只有等我们筛选出证据后，我们才能客观加以评论。 no object the fourth stage involves sifting through the data and evaluating it 第四阶段涉及筛选数据，并作出评价。 Example sentencesExamples Greg steps forwards and begins to sift through the clothes. For this reason, post-publication review is very important to sifting good theory from bad. I crouched on the floor and dumped the contents of the waste basket out in front of me and began to sift through it. Rummaging through a small compartment next to her, she began to sift through old cards and small papers that she might need later on. Tristyn picked up the pile and began to sift through the letters one by one, setting the bills in one pile for her next call with her mother, her mother's personal mail and her own. The more I delved into sifting the reliable from the unreliable, the deeper I dropped into the well of discovery. Having retired from the school last summer, he is now beginning the laborious process of sifting through his enormous archive and is writing a history of the period. As he sifts through the works of scientists, naturalists, composers and poets, Rothenberg performs intellectual contortions in an attempt to assemble or establish a unified theory of why birds sing. He was in Europe preparing for the Commonwealth Games and I was at home sifting and sorting through his personal belongings and boxing them up. I'm having the most enormous fun sifting through the mound of accumulated poems and haiku, bringing order and accord where there was none. I poured myself some orange juice as Aurora began to sift through the cupboards for pancake mix. It is the combined mass of efforts of journalists, and their analyses that sift the truth from the many layers of untruths, that provide the world information that it can act upon. She turned to her paper work and began to sift through the information, taking notes and reminding herself to talk to Nathan about certain things. They sifted through more than 4,000 poems before drawing up a shortlist of the 12 finalists. The conventional wisdom can change as new evidence is sifted through. You will find information on the specific techniques that different search engines use to sift their data into the most effective lists. Planning time for teachers was established, and we began to sift through the resource materials and supply closet. There is a process of sifting and screening among MPs and frontbenchers which provides an informal shortlist of possible leaders. Three quarters of that was spent sifting choices down to twelve of my favourite songs and favourite songwriters. Lord Hutton was asked to do a specific job: to take evidence, sift it, and reach conclusions. Synonyms search through, look through, rummage through, root about in, root around in, ferret in, ferret about in, ferret around in, poke around in, go through, turn over, explore, examine, inspect, scrutinize, pore over, investigate, conduct investigations into, enquire into, conduct an enquiry into, delve into, go into, analyse, screen, sieve, probe, dissect, review, assess 2.1sift something out Separate something, especially something to be discarded, from something else. 使分开，剔除 he asked for streamlined procedures to sift out frivolous applications 他要求简化程序，剔除无意义的申请。 Example sentencesExamples Loedolff is busy sifting out undesirable works in the collection, and has been selling prints and oils that don't fit the profile of the collection. Sea squirts spend most of their lives attached to underwater rocks, sifting tiny particles of food from the water around them. At any rate, it took quite some time to dig out the weeds and sift out the roots and begin grading. Faced with ideas that negated their newly claimed identities, they neither argued nor capitulated, but simply left - thereby definitively sifting such ideas out of their religious beliefs. One of the positive aspects of the dotcom slump was that many pseudo-web designers were sifted out. And when Elizabeti tries to sift the rocks out of the rice, Obedi slaps at the basket and spills some of the rice on the ground. In these stories he sets himself the objective of sifting out the strongest elements that can be utilized within prose, leaving strong ideas and reflections. FitzGerald had done what he does best - sifted gems out of public statistics. Synonyms separate out, filter out, sort out, isolate, divide, part, segregate, put to one side, weed out, get rid of, remove nounsɪftsift 1usually in singular An act of sifting something, especially so as to isolate that which is most important or useful. 〈喻〉筛选；遴选 a careful archaeological sift must be made through the debris 必须对瓦砾进行细致的考古筛选工作。 Example sentencesExamples I only installed the ones that looked common or interesting figuring I can also have a proper sift through later if I'm looking for something special. And the way these used to work was that they would have each applicant come onto the stage and play a short piece of music and they'd do a very quick sift. The first stage was a sift of application forms based on their degree and previous academic achievements, and an analysis of some simple competency based responses. Can the constable who is executing the warrant do a preliminary sift at the premises where the documents are stored, and then take all, or a large part of the material away to sort it out properly elsewhere? These figures suggest that the sift did not discriminate against people on the basis of which university they had attended. Have a sift through and leave a comment to tell me what you think, particularly if you come across any bugs of any sort. I decided to have a sift around the net and see what I could find. A sift of the questionnaires should be undertaken prior to inputting information. 1.1 An amount of sifted material. 筛过的原料 the floor was dusted with a fine sift of flour 地板上撒满了筛过的精细面粉。 Example sentencesExamples Bundt cakes are so pretty, they don't need more than a sift of powdered sugar or a drizzle of simple syrup. Add a few drops of water or a sift of flour as needed to get the desired texture. Origin Old English siftan, of West Germanic origin; related to Dutch ziften, also to sieve.
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