| 单词 | sift |
| 释义 | sift (once / 936 pages) v To bake a cake, you sift the flour to get out the lumps. When you sift, you separate out one thing from another. When you sort through the mail looking for the bills or go through your photos to find that shot of your dog, that’s sifting, too. Detectives sift through piles of evidence when investigating crimes, and you might sift through the hundred applications you get from drummers eager to join your band, to find Ms. Right. When you're at the beach, you can sift sand through your fingers, and you might see big machines that sift the sand to clean it. WORD FAMILYsift: sifted, sifter, sifting, sifts+/sifter: sifters/sifting: siftings USAGE EXAMPLESTrump, 70, rarely uses a computer and sifts through stacks of newspapers, magazines and printed articles to read the news. Seattle Times(Jan 01, 2017) The team once spent three weeks sifting through prepaid-phone records, fake email accounts and inconclusive social media searches to track down a 13-year-old girl. Washington Times(Dec 31, 2016) In his campaign against this food additive, Taubes sifts through centuries’ worth of data pertinent to the subject. Seattle Times(Dec 29, 2016) 1v move as if through a sieve The soldiers sifted through the woods Hyper go, locomote, move, travel change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically 2v separate by passing through a sieve or other straining device to separate out coarser elements sift the flour Syn|Hypo|Hyper sieve, strain rice sieve so that it becomes the consistency of rice resiftsift anew riddle, screenseparate with a riddle, as grain from chaff fan, winnowseparate the chaff from by using air currents separate divide into components or constituents 3v distinguish and separate out sift through the job candidates Syn|Hyper sieve choose, pick out, select, take pick out, select, or choose from a number of alternatives 4v check and sort carefully sift the information Syn|Hyper sieve analyse, analyze, canvas, canvass, examine, study consider in detail and subject to an analysis in order to discover essential features or meaning |
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