(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.
Winnow
Definition:
(v. i.) To separate chaff from grain.
Example Sentences:
(1) Winnowing by embiotocids is characterized by premaxillary protrusions repeated cyclically with reduced oral gape.
(2) It’s a remorseless process of winnowing down, from which only one worthy champion can emerge* and the Guardian is here the whole way through, with spoiler alerts roughly every minute, having read the book (Klinsi turns out to have been a wolf all along...) One of tonight’s teams is playing roughly a game a minute at the moment — Confederations Cup and Gold Cup scheduling saw Jamaica’s game against Mexico moved to earlier this week — and that 1-0 loss was the first of three games the Jamaicans will play in eight days (Mexico are doing the same thing).
(3) Winnowed down by sector , the figures narrow further.
(4) evangelical votes chart In 2016, religious activists and political operatives insist, the support of Christian voters will be critical in the early-voting states of Iowa and South Carolina, where evangelical leaders believe they can best winnow a deep Republican field to take on Hillary Clinton, the presumptive Democratic frontrunner.
(5) Or, before the study began, early deaths may have winnowed susceptibles from the two older cohorts.
(6) It’s all about how much of a horrible, fascist, racist, misogynist Trump is.” On her own feed, Constantin found herself winnowing down her friends in order to avoid arguments.
(7) Several surfperches (Embiotocidae), including the black surfperch, Embiotoca jacksoni, exhibit a specialized prey handling behavior known as winnowing, in which ingested food and non-nutritive debris are separated within the oropharyngeal cavity.
(8) A process that was intended to winnow out the unusually crowded Republican field before primary voting begins in February looks likely to keep pundits guessing to the last: chewing up and spitting out new winners and losers almost every time they take to the stage.
(9) Scott Walker shocks Republicans with dropout call to gang up on Donald Trump Read more Afterwards, on MSNBC’s All In with Chris Hayes, former Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele kindly speculated that Walker might also have been throwing a bone to his fellow Wisconsinite and current Chairman Reince Priebus, who wants to winnow the primary field.
(10) Under these circumstances low fitness genotypes are winnowed from the population by natural selection.
(11) The neglect of the national game has been deep and persistent and the winnowing of our skills base complete and utter.
(12) The respondent and co-respondent do not appear, and we have to winnow the matter as best we may.
(13) But the straw poll’s winnowing effect also has advantages – especially for those on the social conservative wing of the party.
(14) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Arctic warming hits new record in 2015, says ocean watchdog Noaa – video Not only is the ice winnowing away, it is becoming younger – Noaa’s analysis of satellite data shows that 70% of the ice pack in March was composed of first-year ice, with just 3% of the ice older than four years.
(15) 102 species and 2 species varieties belonging to 36 genera were collected from combine harvester wheat and sorghum dusts and from the atmosphere of hay or winnow sites.
(16) Winnowing is believed to play an important role in the partitioning of food resources among sympatric embiotocids.
(17) We have come to the end of privacy; our private lives, as our grandparents would have recognised them, have been winnowed away to the realm of the shameful and secret.
(18) Hand it over to private companies and they will swoop in with their efficiency, their economies of scale, their incentives and their competitiveness, winnowing it down into a dart of perfectly targeted public spending.
(19) That private sense of: "You're someone I would like to spend time with", with as opposed to I winnowed you out in a group of a lot of other people.
(20) A post-mortem by party officials after Romney lost the 2012 presidential election to Barack Obama blamed a protracted primary campaign among Republicans for weakening their eventual candidate and recommended a shorter winnowing period.