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Sifting   /sˈɪftɪŋ/   Listen
Sifting

noun
1.
The act of separating grain from chaff.  Synonyms: winnow, winnowing.



Sift

verb
(past & past part. sifted; pres. part. sifting)
1.
Move as if through a sieve.
2.
Separate by passing through a sieve or other straining device to separate out coarser elements.  Synonyms: sieve, strain.
3.
Check and sort carefully.  Synonym: sieve.
4.
Distinguish and separate out.  Synonym: sieve.



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"Sifting" Quotes from Famous Books



... to know who. After all, it may not be the man arrested and arraigned, though most think it is. But, to be fully convinced, further evidence is wanted; as also a more careful sifting of that already obtained. ...
— The Death Shot - A Story Retold • Mayne Reid

... forth the trumpet that shall never call retreat; He is sifting out the hearts of men before His judgment seat; O, be swift, my soul, to answer Him; be jubilant, my feet,— Our ...
— This Country Of Ours • H. E. Marshall Author: Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall

... about the transition of the first century to the second, a series of teachers, who, under the impression of the Gospel, sought to make the Old Testament capable of furthering the tendency to a universal religion, not by allegorical interpretation, but by a sifting criticism. These attempts were of very different kinds. Teachers such as Cerinthus, clung to the notion that the universal religion revealed by Christ was identical with undefined Mosaism, and ...
— History of Dogma, Volume 1 (of 7) • Adolph Harnack

... overseas uniforms that they had worn in their ride over the Old Apache Trail. In addition, a red bandana handkerchief was twisted about the neck of each Overland Rider, in true western style, to keep the alkali dust from sifting down ...
— Grace Harlowe's Overland Riders on the Great American Desert • Jessie Graham Flower

... gallon bottles with long necks, pots or pitchers for their bear oil, which will hold forty pints; lastly, large and small plates in the French fashion: I had some made out of curiosity upon the model of my delf-ware, which were a very pretty red. For sifting the flour of their maiz, and for other uses, the natives make sieves of various finenesses of the splits of cane. To supply themselves with fish they make nets of the bark of the limetree; but the large fish they shoot ...
— History of Louisisana • Le Page Du Pratz


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