siftverb [ T ]
uk/sɪft/us/sɪft/sift verb [ T ] (SEPARATE)
to put flour, sugar, etc. through a sieve (= wire net shaped like a bowl) to break up large pieces:
When the cake is cooked, sift some icing sugar over the top of it.
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Preparing food
- butter
- can't boil an egg idiom
- caramelize
- carve
- clarified
- cube
- dice
- fold
- knead
- leaven
- liquidize
- malt
- marinade
- salt
- spice
- stuffed
- sweeten
- thicken
- thin
- whip sth up
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sift verb [ T ] (EXAMINE)
to make a close examination of all the parts of something in order to find something or to separate what is useful from what is not:
The police are sifting the evidence very carefully to try and find the guilty person.
After my father's death, I had to sift through all his papers.
The police are trying to sift out the genuine warnings from all the hoax calls they have received.
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Analysing and evaluating
- analyse
- analyser
- analyst
- analytical
- analyze
- critical
- go through sth
- have the measure of sb/sth idiom
- inspect
- inspection
- interpretive
- measure
- proof
- sell sb/yourself/sth short idiom
- set great, little, etc. store by sth idiom
- sit
- sit in judgment on/over sb idiom
- size sth/sb up
- store
- survey
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