To bake a cake, you sift the flour to get out the lumps. When you sift, you separate out one thing from another.
To separate with a sieve, as the fine part of a substance from the coarse;
Verb
distinguish and separate out; "sift through the job candidates"
Verb
separate by passing through a sieve or other straining device to separate out coarser elements; "sift the flour"
Verb
check and sort carefully; "sift the information"
Verb
move as if through a sieve; "The soldiers sifted through the woods"
v. t.
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.
v. t.
To separate or part as if with a sieve.
v. t.
To examine critically or minutely; to scrutinize.
Sift
When yellow sands are sifted from below, The glittering billows give a golden show.3.
Sifting the very utmost sentence and syllable.
Opportunity I here have had To try thee, sift thee.
Let him but narrowly sift his ideas.
To separate with a sieve, as the fine part of a substance from the coarse;
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