sift

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verb

1. move as if through a sieve (Freq. 1)
- The soldiers sifted through the woods
• Hypernyms:
travel, go, move, locomote
• Verb Frames:
- Something is ----ing PP
- Somebody ----s PP
2. separate by passing through a sieve or other straining device to separate out coarser elements (Freq. 1)
- sift the flour
• Syn:
sieve, strain
• See Also:
sieve out (for: sieve)
• Derivationally related forms:
strainer (for: strain), sieve (for: sieve), sifter, sifting, sieve
• Hypernyms:
separate
• Hyponyms:
rice, resift, riddle, screen, winnow, fan
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Something ----s something
3. check and sort carefully
- sift the information
• Syn:
sieve
• Hypernyms:
analyze, analyse, study, examine, canvass, canvas
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
4. distinguish and separate out
- sift through the job candidates
• Syn:
sieve
• Hypernyms:
choose, take, select, pick out
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s somebody

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  sieve, strain