SIFT


Meaning of SIFT in English

sift /sɪft/ BrE AmE verb [transitive]

[ Language: Old English ; Origin: siftan ]

1 . to put flour, sugar etc through a sieve or similar container in order to remove large pieces

2 . ( also sift through ) to examine information, documents etc carefully in order to find something out or decide what is important and what is not:

Police are sifting through the evidence.

sift something ↔ out phrasal verb

to separate something from other things

sift something ↔ out from

It’s hard to sift out the truth from the lies in this case.

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English.      Longman - Словарь современного английского языка.