(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.
Strainer
Definition:
(n.) One who strains.
(n.) That through which any liquid is passed for purification or to separate it from solid matter; anything, as a screen or a cloth, used to strain a liquid; a device of the character of a sieve or of a filter; specifically, an openwork or perforated screen, as for the end of the suction pipe of a pump, to prevent large solid bodies from entering with a liquid.
Example Sentences:
(1) The tissue was sieved through a large strainer (2 mm2) to produce a homogeneous suspension.
(2) The Brooklyn Bridge Park, High Line and Low Line parks are healthy gauges of this, along with project +POOL , a “plus” shaped pool which will act like a giant strainer dropped into the Hudson river.
(3) In chaps, a battered Stetson and with a soup-strainer moustache, Tex immediately provided – to fans of old western movies like us – a far more thrilling encounter than anything Sin City could offer.
(4) The authors describe a method of plasty of proximal parts of the femoral diaphysis with a nonfree vascularized autotransplant from the iliac crest on the muscular-vascular connections including the strainer of the wide fascia, portion of the musculus gluteus medius and the feeding ascending branch of the lateral artery surrounding the femoral bone with the accompanying veins.
(5) The wash procedure consisted of a jet of tap water over the specimen contained in a tea strainer.
(6) Alternatively, you can chop all the ingredients and pop them into a powerful blender with 120ml of water, then pass the mixture through a fine-mesh strainer into a glass.
(7) Application of temephos in unsafe water sources for destroying cyclops, the intermediate hosts of guineaworm, and distribution of fine mesh nylon strainers for promoting prophylaxis against guineaworm are accepted methods of guineaworm control in different endemic countries.
(8) 4 Pour the liquor through a strainer, retaining both liquid and solids.
(9) Occasionally, he’d stray into being a bee, sporting a couple of tea strainers over his eyes.
(10) This procedure utilized a tea strainer, plastic cup and conical centrifuge tube, all of which could be made available at a minimally equipped laboratory.
(11) No worries if you don't have a juicer: a blender and a strainer do the trick.
(12) Alternatively, you can chop all the ingredients and pop them into a powerful blender with 120ml of water, then pass the mixture through a fine-mesh strainer and drink immediately.
(13) Also, a single isolate of L. ivanovii was obtained from a mesh screen strainer of the waste water treatment plant located near the works.
(14) Hyperchlorination of shower heads and angle valve strainers had only a short-lived effect on legionellae.
(15) 4 Strain with a tea strainer and serve (preferably in two old-fashioned teacups).