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Definition of Sifting

Sifting
Sift Sift, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Sifted; p. pr. & vb. n. Sifting.] [AS. siftan, from sife sieve. [root]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.

Meaning of Sifting from wikipedia

- for separating particles of different sizes. A sieve such as used for sifting flour has very small holes. Co**** particles are separated or broken up...
- Siftables are small computers that display graphics on their top surface and sense one another and how they are being moved. Siftables were developed as...
- Look up sift in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Sift refers to the straining action of a sifter or sieve. Sift or SIFT may also refer to: Scale-invariant...
- SIFT algorithm is the revised SIFT (Scale-invariant feature transform) algorithm which uses ranking techniques to improve the performance of the SIFT...
- Sifted, formerly VeriShip, is a logistics company based in East London, Eastern Cape founded by Richard Bill in 2005. It was previously headquartered in...
- The scale-invariant feature transform (SIFT) is a computer vision algorithm to detect, describe, and match local features in images, invented by David...
- 70% of the debris was had been sifted at this time. "Is this the End of the Sifting Project?". The Temple Mount Sifting Project. 2 April 2017. Retrieved...
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- videos, the name of the site being a direct allusion to the metaphor of sifting wheat from chaff. It was founded by Brian Houston in February 2006, who...
- and fearless sifting and winnowing by which alone the truth can be found. — 1894 Ely trial committee final report, via Herfurth's Sifting and Winnowing...