Sift
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.
To separate or part as if with a sieve.
To examine critically or minutely; to scrutinize.
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Sift Quotations
You cannot sift out the poor from the community. The poor are indispensable to the rich.
Henry Ward Beecher
The use of criticism, in periodical writing, is to sift, not to stamp a work.
Margaret Fuller
While it's wonderful that investors have access to all the data now available to them, it has become a full-time job to sift through it and separate out the valuable news from the useless noise.
Maria Bartiromo
We would sift through every inch of what it was that worked, or if it didn't, and wonder what was effective in it, in terms of paint, the subject matter, the size, the drawing.
Helen Frankenthaler
And when is there time to remember, to sift, to weigh, to estimate, to total?
Tillie Olsen
Trouble is a sieve through which we sift our acquaintances. Those too big to pass through are our friends.
Arlene Francis
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Sift Translations
sift in Dutch is zeven, ziften
sift in French is tamiser, tamisons, tamisez, tamisent
sift in German is sieben, sichten
sift in Latin is cerno
sift in Spanish is cernir
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