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[SIFT]
** English
*** Etymology
From [en], from [en], from [en].
*** Pronunciation
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
*** Verb
[en-verb]
1. [en] To sieve or strain (something).
2. [en] To separate or scatter (things) as if by sieving.
3. [en] To examine (something) carefully .
1. [en] To scrutinize (someone or something) carefully so as to find the truth.
2. * [I]
3. * [en]
4. * {{ quote-book
|en |year=1764 |author=w:Horace Walpole |title=w:The Castle of Otranto
|pageurl=http://www.gutenberg.org/files/696/696-h/696-h.htm |page=
|publisher=w:Strawberry Hill Press |passage=It immediately occurred to him to
SIFT her on the subject of Isabella and Theodore.}}
1. * [en]
2. * [1=en]
3. [en] [en] To carefully go through a set of objects, or a collection of information, in order to find something.
4. * [en]
5. * [1=en]
1. [en] To move data records up in memory to make space to insert further records. < !--from 1960s or earlier-->
**** Derived terms
[en]
**** Translations
[to sieve or strain (something)]
- Armenian: [hy]
- Aromanian: [rup]
- Assamese:
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Cherokee: [chr]
- Chinese:
- Dutch: [nl]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
- French: [fr] , [fr]
- Friulian: [fur] , [fur]
- German: [de]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Ingrian: [izh] , [izh] , [izh]
- Irish: [ga]
- Italian: [it] , [it]
- Latin: [la]
- Middle English: [enm] , [enm]
- Norman: [nrf]
- Occitan: [oc] , [oc] , [oc]
- Ottoman Turkish: [ota]
- Persian: [fa]
- Piedmontese: [pms]
- Polish: [pl] , [pl] , [pl] , [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt] , [pt]
- Romanian: [ro]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru]
- Spanish: [es] , [es]
- Tagalog: [tl]
- Telugu: [te]
- Thai: [th] , [th]
- Turkish: [tr]
- Ukrainian: [uk] , [uk]
- Walloon: [wa] , [wa] , [wa]
- Welsh: [cy] , [cy]
- West Frisian: [fy]
[trans-bottom]
[to separate or scatter (things) as if by sieving]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi] ; [fi] , [fi]
- French: [fr] , [fr]
- German: [de]
- Italian: [it]
- Polish: [pl] , [pl] , [pl] , [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru]
- Spanish: [es]
- Swedish: [sv]
- Telugu: [te]
- Thai: [th]
- West Frisian: [fy]
[trans-bottom]
[to examine (something) carefully]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Dutch: [nl] , [nl]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
- German: [de] , [de]
- Italian: [it] , [it]
- Latin: [la]
- Norwegian:
- Portuguese: [pt] [pt] , [pt]
- Romanian: [ro]
- Spanish: examinar minuciosamente, [es]
- Swedish: [sv]
- Telugu: [te]
- Thai: [th] , [th] , [th]
- West Frisian: [fy]
[trans-bottom]
*** Noun
[en-noun]
1. An act of sifting.
**** Usage notes
- The utensil used for sifting is a _[en]_ , and not a _sift_ .
*** Anagrams
- [en]