(n.) An opening made by riving or splitting; a cleft; a fissure.
(n.) A shallow place in a stream; a ford.
(v. t.) To cleave; to rive; to split; as, to rift an oak or a rock; to rift the clouds.
(v. i.) To burst open; to split.
(v. i.) To belch.
Example Sentences:
(1) If he is not bluffing, this may cause a total rift with the European family from which Turkey already feels excluded.
(2) In March, the independent manufacturer of a forthcoming VR gaming headset, the Oculus Rift, was bought by Facebook for $2bn.
(3) However, a spokesperson for the Department for Communities and Local Government denied any reports of a rift with the Treasury.
(4) Compounds 3a and 3c exhibited significant activity against vaccinia virus in vitro, whereas 4a was effective against Rift Valley fever virus in mice.
(5) West African Dwarf sheep were challenged with a low mouse brain-passaged Rift Valley fever virus (Ib-AR 55172) isolated from Nigeria.
(6) A rift between the US and Pakistan appears to be widening at the Nato summit in Chicago – a dangerous development that could undermine Barack Obama's hopes for an orderly withdrawal from Afghanistan.
(7) The therapeutic efficacy of polyriboinosinic-polyribocytidylic acid stabilized with poly-L-lysine and carboxymethyl cellulose [poly(ICLC)] given alone or in combination with ribavirin was evaluated in Swiss Webster mice infected with Rift Valley fever virus.
(8) 1 Forge the Malaqi Trail: Wadi Mujib, Jordan From its northern reaches in Syria, the Great Rift Valley cuts a swathe through Jordan, pushing up the mountains that define many of the country's beautiful and well-managed nature reserves.
(9) The gerbil, Meriones unguiculatus, was investigated as a model for the encephalitic form of Rift Valley fever.
(10) The results mean that ARGeo can now expand geothermal projects up and down the Rift, which runs from Mozambique in the south to Djibouti in the north.
(11) • Facebook gets in a row with games firm Zenimax over who actually owns key parts of technology behind Oculus Rift, with Doom-creator John Carmack at its heart
(12) It’s almost like an 80s movie or something – the kind that studios don’t make anymore.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest There is a definite Big Chill vibe to Don’t Think Twice, a comedy that explores the thorny rifts between friends when one person’s newfound success threatens to alienate the group.
(13) Sisi doesn't seem to realise the deep rifts and political polarisation his policies have created.
(14) Underlining the regional rifts, a senior Iranian military official meanwhile signalled that Iran could yet send military advisers to Yemen to help the Houthis.
(15) Complicating matters further are rifts within the biggest party in congress, the Brazilian Democratic Movement party (PMDB), a party which concentrates more on power than any defined ideology and which has dominated Brazilian politics for the past 30 years.
(16) The answer, for the billionaire entrepreneur, is contained in the purchase of Oculus, the maker of the distinctive $350 Rift headset – which looks like a massive pair of opaque diving goggles.
(17) In the News Corp report , Rafter said the rift with Tomic remained deep and possibly irreconcilable after his dumping from Australia’s Davis Cup team over his Wimbledon post-match outburst.
(18) In a highly unorthodox move illustrating a rift between the party’s leader and its HQ bureaucracy, it was announced on Friday that Fisher would be suspended while the complaints were investigated and a report was submitted to the party’s national executive committee.
(19) In a sign of the depth of the rift at senior levels of the Conservative party, the prime minister told a gathering of business leaders in Downing Street last Wednesday that he was astonished that the mayor would risk the future of the City of London.
(20) Jeremy Corbyn's shadow cabinet agrees to Labour peace talks Read more Smith said: “Yesterday, I spoke directly with Len McCluskey of Unite and met with our leader, Jeremy Corbyn, to explore what I can do to try and heal the rifts that have opened up in our movement.” He said Corbyn had reassured him he was “engaging in talks with an open mind”.
Sift
Definition:
(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.
Example Sentences:
(1) Sift the cocoa powder over the top and lightly but thoroughly fold it in with the metal spoon.
(2) Strangers were deliberately picking through this, sifting for things they could get away with publishing,” Sherborne said.
(3) The % by weight content of leaf-like, stem, boll, seed, and weed materials sifted (3360 mum greater than particle size greater than or equal to 595 mum) from visible wastes of the Shirley Analyzer was determined for a lint sample taken after ginning but before cleaning and for a second lint sample taken after one stage of saw-type cleaning.
(4) Thanks to sifting by the Defamer blog , the emails reveal the arguments began back in February, after Angelina Jolie wanted Fincher to direct her in Cleopatra, rather than take on the Jobs film.
(5) Sift the remaining flour and fold in gently to retain as much air as possible, but make sure all the flour is incorporated.
(6) Fat sizzles, flour sifts, and delicious smells waft around.
(7) Election 2015: taxpayers worse off under every party, experts say Read more They see the world from a particular standpoint, where clarity, consistency and economic logic trump political point-scoring and what politicians call the “retail offer” to the voter – hence their tone of weary despair when sifting through the parties’ plans.
(8) Rescuers, meanwhile, sifted through the rubble in search of more casualties but a fire hindered their efforts.
(9) Gently fold until nearly combined, then sift in the remaining flour and fold until just homogenous.
(10) How do we sift through this deluge of data to find the right insights?
(11) Behind Boleat sit parliamentary lawyers, public affairs staff, 43 media staff, a 50-strong economic development unit sifting through international regulations, researchers and legions of hospitality workers.
(12) Sift over some icing sugar to lightly dust the top, then lay the walnut pieces down the centre, securing with the reserved butter icing.
(13) 4.16pm BST In the BBC studio, where pundits are still sifting through the rubble of England's collapse last night, Gary Lineker is sporting an Italy jersey.
(14) The Guardian and Manchester International Festival assembled an expert panel to sift through ideas for tackling climate change from all over the world.
(15) The refugee crisis compounds security dilemmas for European security agencies which must sift thousands of clues to find any hint of threats, and operate with tiny resources when compared to the US’s security agencies – the Department of Homeland Security alone has a $40bn budget .
(16) I have spent countless hours sifting through the daily barrage of letters from NHS 111 detailing their encounters with patients.
(17) As her parents lay dying, Chast dragged herself back to their apartment and started the grim task of sifting through a lifetime of worthless possessions.
(18) Kavanagh said that no one is opposed to co-operation with the police and that the company should hand over information when appropriate, but it was up to the police to sift through the 300m emails and hordes of other documents, not the MSC.
(19) Scotland might not be on the brink of a golden generation, but they’re not quite sifting through the scrap metal.
(20) History” does not objectively sift through speeches, pick out the best on their merits, and then dedicate them faithfully to public memory.