Look up: sift

1. sift
   [v] - move as if through a sieve 2. [v] - separate by passing through a sieve or other straining device to separate out coarser elements
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2. SIFT
   Stanford Information Filtering Tool
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3. sift
   machine for separating flour from groats and meal Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries
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4. Sift
   Sift transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Sifted ; present participle & verbal noun Sifting .] [ Anglo-Saxon siftan , from sife sieve. √151 a . See ...
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5. Sift
   • (v. t.) To examine critically or minutely; to scrutinize. • (v. t.) To separate or part as if with a sieve. • (v. t.) 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.
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6. Sift
   To pass dry ingredients through a sifter or sieve to aerate and remove lumps.
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7. Sift
   Removing lumps from dry ingredients such as flour or confectioners' sugar by passing it through a strainer. It also aerates the item making them lighter.
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8. SIFT
   SHARE Internal Fortran Translator. Translation utility designed for converting Fortran II to Fortran IV. The word 'sift' was often used as a verb to describe converting code from one language to another. Sammet 1969, p.153.
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9. SIFT
   To put one or more dry ingredients through a sieve or sifter.
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