Sift is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for SIFT in dictionary:

VERB:
• to pass through a strainer, also SIEVE
• put (a fine or loose substance) through a sieve so as to remove lumps or large particles
• cause to flow or pass as through a sieve
• (of snow, ash, etc.) descend lightly or sparsely as if sprinkled from a sieve
• examine (something) thoroughly so as to isolate that which is most important
• separate something, especially something to be discarded, from something else
• remove the coarser particles from a substance with a sieve
• 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.
• move as if through a sieve
• separate by passing through a sieve or other straining device to separate out coarser elements
• check and sort carefully
• distinguish and separate out
NOUN:
• an act of sifting something, especially so as to isolate that which is most important
• an amount of sifted material
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to sieve

Words related to SIFT

searce8 sifted10 sifter9 sifters10 sifting11 siftingly16 sifts8

Words that contain SIFT

sifts8 resift9 sifted10 sifter9 presift12 resifts10 sifters10 sifting11 presifts13 resifted12 siftings12 unsifted12 presifted15 resifting13 siftingly16 presifting16

How to use SIFT in a sentence

• But you can sift what they tell you and preserve the grain of truth.
• Judge Bramber would no doubt begin to sift the case with a strong bias in favour of the jury.
• I immediately took measures to sift the evil, and gradually reaction has taken place, in the belief that I will wait for the reinforcements.
• He determined, however, not to rest here, but to sift the matter to the bottom.
• Should you think it worth while, Colonel Outram will be able to sift the matter to which it refers.
• The educational system in Germany is deliberately planned to sift out and to retain in the service of industry, all such promising young people.
• Put the salt and baking-powder in the flour and sift well, and then rub the butter in with a spoon.
• In your character as day laborer, sift carefully each morning what belongs to to-day from that which may come to-morrow.
• I ask you now, friend Paul, to sift the precise meaning and the moral of this tale.
• The scattered and stricken mob had begun to sift back, only a subdued and curious crowd now.
• It comes mainly from later report, but partly from documents which I have been too busy, of late, to sift.
• Let us sift the grounds of the opinion that women ire relatively incapable of friendship, analyze the appearances on which it rests, and separate the truth in it from the error.
• It was a marked quality of Pestalozzi to sift out these simple fundamentals and to master them.
• Then he showed me how to grind the dry and brittle leaves in the coffee mill, put them into the sieve, and sift them on the paper.
• A crack in the gable end let in a sift of snow that had been heaping up a lonely little drift on the bare floor.
• Are we to think of these stories as containing any grain of truth? If they do, it is now impossible to sift it from the chaff.
• Sift powdered sugar on top and serve with a slice of lemon.
• Sift two cups of flour into a bowl, make a depression in the centre of the flour, pour in the yeast and one cup of lukewarm milk.
• KINDLECH Into a large bowl sift one pound of fine flour.
• Out of this simple running account several things sift themselves, and stand out to our eyes.
• To combine this mass of evidence, to sift and establish it, and to weave it into a symmetrical narrative, is the aim of the work before us.
• Sift the flour into a deep bowl, and, when the milk is merely blood-warm, stir together with enough of the flour to form a batter or sponge.
• Drain on brown paper, and sift sugar over them, before they go to table.

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