| VERB | motion | sift | move as if through a sieve |
|---|---|---|---|
| contact | sift, sieve, strain | separate by passing through a sieve or other straining device to separate out coarser elements | |
| contact | sift, sieve | check and sort carefully | |
| cognition | sift, sieve | distinguish and separate out |
| Sounds | sih'ft | |
|---|---|---|
| Rhymes | adrift ... uplift: 18 rhymes with ihft... | |
| Meaning | Move as if through a sieve. | |
|---|---|---|
| Pattern | Something is ----ing PP; Somebody ----s PP | |
| Example | "The soldiers sifted through the woods" | |
| Broader | travel, go, move, locomote | change location |
| Meaning | separate by passing through a sieve or other straining device to separate out coarser elements. | |
|---|---|---|
| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something | |
| Example | "sift the flour" | |
| Synonyms | sieve, strain | |
| Narrower | resift | sift anew |
| rice | sieve so that it becomes the consistency of rice | |
| riddle, screen | separate with a riddle, as grain from chaff | |
| winnow | separate the chaff from by using air currents | |
| Broader | separate | divide into components or constituents |
| Spanish | cerner, cernir, colar, separar, tamizar | |
| Catalan | barutellar, colar, tamisar | |
| Nouns | sieve | a strainer for separating lumps from powdered material or grading particles |
| sifter | a household sieve (as for flour) | |
| sifting | the act of separating grain from chaff | |
| Meaning | check and sort carefully. | |
|---|---|---|
| Pattern | Somebody ----s something | |
| Example | "sift the information" | |
| Synonym | sieve | |
| Broader | analyze, analyse, study, examine, canvass | Consider in detail and subject to an analysis in order to discover essential features or meaning / meaning |
| Meaning | distinguish and separate out. | |
|---|---|---|
| Pattern | Somebody ----s somebody | |
| Example | "sift through the job candidates" | |
| Synonym | sieve | |
| Broader | choose, take, select, pick out | pick out, select, or choose from a number of alternatives |
| Spanish | colar, cribar | |
| Catalan | colar | |
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