Definition for Sift:

• Separate into finer& coarser parts with sieve, separate( finer parts) from material or its coarser parts or out, sprinkle( sugar &c.) from perforated spoon &c.; closely examine details of( evidence, facts, &c.) with regard to credibility or authenticity or relevance, analyse character of; ( of snow, light, &c.) fall as from sieve. Hence(-) sifter( 1, 2) n. [ old English]

Synonyms for Sift:

• n.

  •
  • beat,
  • blanch,
  • butchery,
  • butcher,
  • chill,
  • butter,
  • blend,
  • carve,
  • bake,
  • bone.
  •
  • check up on,
  • clean,
  • research,
  • look up,
  • follow up,
  • scout,
  • gather,
  • size,
  • bolt,
  • look into.
  •
  • hunt down,
  • scavenge,
  • look out for,
  • search out,
  • include,
  • go through,
  • pick through,
  • seek out.

• v.

  •analyze (verb)
  • anatomize,
  • assay,
  • dissect.
  •canvass (verb)
  • de bated,
  • checks over,
  • electioneered,
  • de-bating,
  • re-viewing,
  • in spect,
  • in spects,
  • re viewing,
  • re viewed,
  • de-bated,
  • re-viewed,
  • in-spects,
  • re-view,
  • de bates,
  • re views,
  • de-bates,
  • de bating,
  • re-views,
  • checking over,
  • re view,
  • in-spect,
  • de bate,
  • de-bate.
  •comb (verb)
  • go through with finetooth comb,
  • turns inside out,
  • go through with fine tooth comb,
  • searched high heaven,
  • leaving no stone unturned,
  • leaved no stone unturned,
  • looked high and low,
  • left no stone unturned,
  • going through with fine-tooth comb,
  • searching high heaven,
  • went through with fine-tooth comb,
  • looks high and low,
  • turning upside down,
  • beat bushes,
  • goes through with fine tooth comb,
  • went through with fine tooth comb,
  • leaves no stone unturned,
  • look high low,
  • went through with finetooth comb,
  • searches high heaven,
  • looking high low,
  • goes through with fine-tooth comb,
  • goes through with finetooth comb,
  • finecombs,
  • looked high low,
  • going through with fine tooth comb,
  • finecombing,
  • looking high and low,
  • looks high low,
  • going through with finetooth comb,
  • finecombed,
  • turns upside down.
  •contact (verb)
  • sift,
  • sieve.
  •cull (verb)
  • optates,
  • thins out,
  • ex tracts,
  • opted for,
  • singles out,
  • ex tract,
  • thinned out,
  • optated,
  • ex-tracts,
  • optating,
  • ex-tract.
  •delve (verb)
  • jumping in to,
  • really get in to,
  • jumped in to,
  • jumped into,
  • jumping into,
  • re-searches,
  • un earthed,
  • jumps in to,
  • un earth,
  • reallied get into,
  • re search,
  • un earthing,
  • re-searching,
  • re-searched,
  • re searched,
  • reallying get in to,
  • un earths,
  • un-earth,
  • jumps into,
  • re searches,
  • jump in to,
  • reallied get in to,
  • ex-cavate,
  • reallies get in to,
  • reallying get into,
  • un-earths,
  • reallies get into,
  • scoops out,
  • scooped out,
  • gouging out,
  • un-earthed,
  • ex cavate,
  • un-earthing,
  • scooping out,
  • re searching.
  •dig (verb)
  • de-pressing,
  • pro-duces,
  • bring light,
  • searching high and low,
  • un-cover,
  • searched high and low,
  • dis cover,
  • digs down,
  • de pressing,
  • dis covered,
  • searching high low,
  • de pressed,
  • shook down,
  • dis covering,
  • forking out,
  • under-mined,
  • de-press,
  • dis-covered,
  • under mining,
  • ex posed,
  • pro duces,
  • ex hume,
  • un covered,
  • searched high low,
  • roots out,
  • de presses,
  • shakes down,
  • un cover,
  • ex-posing,
  • dug down,
  • digged down,
  • ex pose,
  • de-pressed,
  • dis-covers,
  • searches high and low,
  • ex-pose,
  • forks out,
  • shaking down,
  • under mined,
  • dis covers,
  • ex-hume,
  • de-presses,
  • un covering,
  • un-covering,
  • un covers,
  • rooted out,
  • de press,
  • digging down,
  • under-mining,
  • ex-posed,
  • un-covers,
  • pro duce,
  • dis-covering,
  • searches high low,
  • search high low,
  • dis-cover.
  •discriminate (verb)
  • dis-cern,
  • telling difference,
  • knew whats what,
  • tell difference,
  • contradistinguishes,
  • discrepates,
  • re marking,
  • dis criminate,
  • dis criminated,
  • re marks,
  • dis-criminated,
  • tells the difference,
  • knowing whats what,
  • discrepated,
  • knew what's what,
  • severalized,
  • knew what what,
  • re-marked,
  • severalizing,
  • tells apart,
  • knows whats what,
  • dis cern,
  • told difference,
  • dis criminating,
  • dis-criminates,
  • re mark,
  • telling the difference,
  • re-marking,
  • telling apart,
  • re-marks,
  • re marked,
  • know what what,
  • severalizes,
  • discrepating,
  • tells difference,
  • dis-criminating,
  • knows what what,
  • dis-criminate,
  • know whats what,
  • dis criminates,
  • knowing what what.
  •discuss (verb)
  • de liberating,
  • discourses about,
  • disserting,
  • de scanting,
  • ex plained,
  • de-liberate,
  • dis-cusses,
  • hashed over,
  • compares notes,
  • dis cuss,
  • ex-plains,
  • de-scanting,
  • groupthinks,
  • ex plain,
  • de-liberates,
  • thrashed out,
  • disserted,
  • de-liberated,
  • putting heads together,
  • de-scanted,
  • comparing notes,
  • consulting with,
  • discepted,
  • thrashes out,
  • kicks about,
  • ex-plain,
  • tossing around,
  • de-scants,
  • ex-plaining,
  • bounced off,
  • consulted with,
  • compared notes,
  • dis-cuss,
  • exchanges views on,
  • dis sert,
  • dis-cussed,
  • dissertating,
  • groupthinked,
  • discepts,
  • dis cussing,
  • de scant,
  • bouncing off,
  • consults with,
  • dis cept,
  • hashing over,
  • bounces off,
  • ex plaining,
  • kicking about,
  • de scanted,
  • dis cusses,
  • tost around,
  • reasons about,
  • dissertates,
  • hashes over,
  • de-scant,
  • groupthinking,
  • disserts,
  • de liberated,
  • kicked about,
  • holds forth,
  • de liberates,
  • ex-plained,
  • dis-sert,
  • dissertated,
  • de liberate,
  • exchanging views on,
  • discoursed about,
  • dis cussed,
  • de-liberating,
  • de scants,
  • discoursing about,
  • dis-cept,
  • tosses around,
  • thrashing out,
  • puts heads together,
  • discepting,
  • exchanged views on,
  • dis-cussing,
  • ex plains,
  • reasoning about,
  • reasoned about.
  •distinguish (verb)
  • de terminating,
  • re-cognizing,
  • diagnosticated,
  • de-terminated,
  • told from,
  • re cognize,
  • re-cognized,
  • marks off,
  • de terminate,
  • de terminates,
  • sorts out,
  • sets off,
  • de-terminates,
  • re cognized,
  • telling from,
  • determinating,
  • de terminated,
  • told between,
  • telling between,
  • figures out,
  • re cognizing,
  • de-terminating,
  • re cognizes,
  • tells between,
  • determinated,
  • de-terminate,
  • tells from.
  •dust (verb)
  • be sprinkled,
  • be sprinkling,
  • be-sprinkled,
  • be-sprinkling,
  • be sprinkles,
  • be sprinkle,
  • be-sprinkles,
  • be-sprinkle.
  •examine (verb)
  • search in to,
  • scrutinates,
  • sizes up,
  • searches into,
  • dug in to,
  • looked see,
  • delving into,
  • delves into,
  • pores over,
  • searching in to,
  • delving in to,
  • takes stock of,
  • delved in to,
  • searches in to,
  • pored over,
  • searched in to,
  • chews over,
  • digs into,
  • dug into,
  • digged into,
  • searched into,
  • digged in to,
  • searching into,
  • chewing over,
  • scrutinated,
  • looks over,
  • chewed over,
  • delve in to,
  • looking see,
  • taking stock of,
  • dig in to,
  • looks see,
  • delved into,
  • pats down,
  • took stock of,
  • digging into,
  • digging in to,
  • delves in to,
  • patting down,
  • scrutinating,
  • digs in to,
  • patted down,
  • sized up.
  •explore (verb)
  • hadst look,
  • have look,
  • has look,
  • had look,
  • having look,
  • haddest look,
  • haddest a look,
  • hast look,
  • inquire in to,
  • inquires in to,
  • hadst a look,
  • had a look,
  • hath a look,
  • inquired in to,
  • hast a look,
  • having a look,
  • inquiring in to,
  • inquires into,
  • inquiring into,
  • hath look,
  • has a look.
  •filter (verb)
  • re fines,
  • dis tilling,
  • re-fine,
  • dis-tills,
  • re fined,
  • dis-tilled,
  • re-fines,
  • dis tills,
  • re fine,
  • metastasizing,
  • soaked through,
  • metastasizes,
  • dis-tilling,
  • dis tilled,
  • osmosed,
  • soaking through,
  • re-fining,
  • osmosing,
  • dis till,
  • Osmoses,
  • dis-till,
  • soaks through.
  •glean (verb)
  • de duces,
  • de-duces,
  • re aped,
  • re-aped,
  • re-aping,
  • de duce,
  • de-duce.
  •go into (verb)
  • go in to.
  •hunt (verb)
  • be lookout,
  • tries to find,
  • am on the lookout,
  • were lookout,
  • is on the lookout,
  • looks over hell,
  • nosed around,
  • tried find,
  • am the lookout,
  • am lookout,
  • try find,
  • art the lookout,
  • looked over hell,
  • being lookout,
  • trying find,
  • trying to find,
  • look over hell,
  • being the lookout,
  • nosing around,
  • wast the lookout,
  • art lookout,
  • is on lookout,
  • are on lookout,
  • scratches around,
  • wert on the lookout,
  • looking over hell,
  • looking all over hell,
  • casting about,
  • wast lookout,
  • be on lookout,
  • casts about,
  • wert on lookout,
  • looks all over hell,
  • were on lookout,
  • be the lookout,
  • was lookout,
  • was on the lookout,
  • is lookout,
  • were the lookout,
  • being on lookout,
  • scratched around,
  • tries find,
  • was on lookout,
  • being on the lookout,
  • am on lookout,
  • are on the lookout,
  • wert lookout,
  • scratching around,
  • went after,
  • noses around,
  • is the lookout,
  • wast on lookout,
  • wast on the lookout,
  • were on the lookout,
  • are the lookout,
  • looked all over hell,
  • wert the lookout,
  • was the lookout.
  •probe (verb)
  • put out feeler,
  • feeling around,
  • felt around,
  • puts out feeler,
  • putting out a feeler,
  • feels around,
  • sounds out,
  • putting out feeler,
  • pro-bed,
  • puts out a feeler,
  • pro bed.
  •prospect (verb)
  • pro spect,
  • pro spects,
  • pro-spects,
  • pro-spect.
  •screen (verb)
  • pro cess,
  • pro cessed,
  • pro-cesses,
  • pro-cessed,
  • pro-cess,
  • pro cessing.
  •scrutinize (verb)
  • go over with a finetooth comb,
  • puts under microscope,
  • taking measure of,
  • going over with a fine tooth comb,
  • got a load of,
  • go over with fine tooth comb,
  • perlustrated,
  • getting a load of,
  • burns up,
  • went over with fine-tooth comb,
  • over-look,
  • over looked,
  • go over with finetooth comb,
  • going over with a fine-tooth comb,
  • going over with fine tooth comb,
  • puts under a microscope,
  • perlustrating,
  • gets a load of,
  • get load of,
  • gotten a load of,
  • taking the measure of,
  • went over with finetooth comb,
  • takes measure of,
  • putting under microscope,
  • over looks,
  • goes over with fine-tooth comb,
  • go over with fine-tooth comb,
  • over-looking,
  • gat load of,
  • go over with a fine tooth comb,
  • goes over with fine tooth comb,
  • putting under a microscope,
  • goes over with a fine tooth comb,
  • going over with finetooth comb,
  • going over with a finetooth comb,
  • perlustrates,
  • goes over with a finetooth comb,
  • goes over with finetooth comb,
  • took measure of,
  • went over with fine tooth comb,
  • burnt up,
  • over look,
  • over-looks,
  • going over with fine-tooth comb,
  • took the measure of,
  • went over with a fine-tooth comb,
  • goes over with a fine-tooth comb,
  • got load of,
  • gets load of,
  • gotten load of,
  • put under microscope,
  • went over with a finetooth comb,
  • went over with a fine tooth comb,
  • takes the measure of.
  •search (verb)
  • look for,
  • peek,
  • peer,
  • pry,
  • rifle,
  • seek,
  • search,
  • scour,
  • forage.
  •separate (verb)
  • dis tribute,
  • put one side,
  • dis-tributes,
  • putting side,
  • dis-tribute,
  • compartmenting,
  • putting on side,
  • puts side,
  • standing between,
  • put side,
  • closes off,
  • dis tributes,
  • draws apart,
  • putting one side,
  • drew apart,
  • ropes off,
  • stands between,
  • drawing apart,
  • puts on side,
  • intervaling,
  • putting on one side,
  • puts one side,
  • puts on one side,
  • stood between.
  •sort (verb)
  • buttons down,
  • puts down for,
  • put rights,
  • buttoned down,
  • puts to rights,
  • putting to rights,
  • buttoning down,
  • puts in shape,
  • putting down as,
  • putting in shape,
  • puts down as,
  • typecasts,
  • puts order,
  • putting down for,
  • put shape,
  • puts shape,
  • putting rights,
  • putting order,
  • putting shape,
  • puts rights,
  • put order.
  •take out residue; remove impurities (verb)
  • colander,
  • drain,
  • riddle,
  • part,
  • grade,
  • fathom.
  •ventilate (verb)
  • bringing into the open,
  • threshed out,
  • bringing in to open,
  • threshes out,
  • bringing into open,
  • ex-press,
  • talks of,
  • dis coursing,
  • dis coursed,
  • dis-coursing,
  • brought into the open,
  • bring in to open,
  • talked over,
  • brought in to open,
  • bringing in to the open,
  • ex-pressing,
  • dis-courses,
  • brings into the open,
  • dis-coursed,
  • bring in to the open,
  • dis-course,
  • intro-duces,
  • brings into open,
  • talking about,
  • brought into open,
  • brings in to the open,
  • dis courses,
  • ex pressing,
  • brought in to the open,
  • intro duce,
  • talks about,
  • intro-duce,
  • talking over,
  • dis course,
  • ex press,
  • ex pressed,
  • threshing out,
  • brings in to open,
  • bring into open,
  • intro duces,
  • talking of,
  • talks over.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • thresh.
  •discriminate
  • know what's what,
  • told apart,
  • knows what's what,
  • Contradistinguishing,
  • evaluate,
  • severalize,
  • Contradistinguished,
  • told the difference,
  • tell the difference,
  • Re-mark,
  • Differencing,
  • tell apart,
  • Differenced,
  • knowing what's what,
  • contradistinguish,
  • discrepate.
  •distinguish
  • labelled,
  • individuate,
  • marked off,
  • individualize,
  • tell between,
  • tell from,
  • mark off,
  • sort out,
  • Individuating,
  • determinates,
  • identify,
  • figure out,
  • setting apart,
  • setting off,
  • sorting out,
  • diagnosticating,
  • Diagnosticate,
  • sets apart,
  • sorted out,
  • Labelling,
  • diagnosticates,
  • set off,
  • marking off,
  • set apart,
  • figured out,
  • individuates,
  • figuring out,
  • individuated.
  •dust
  • besprinkle,
  • Besprinkled,
  • Besprinkling,
  • besprinkles.
  •examine
  • poring over,
  • parse,
  • pore over,
  • gun,
  • scrutinate,
  • take stock of,
  • size up,
  • vet,
  • Parsed,
  • vetting,
  • dig into,
  • chew over,
  • scoped,
  • look see,
  • looking over,
  • scoping,
  • Gunning,
  • parses,
  • looked over,
  • Parsing,
  • vetted,
  • Guns,
  • look over,
  • VETS,
  • pat down,
  • delve into,
  • search into,
  • gunned.
  •screen
  • picked out,
  • picking out,
  • picks out.
  •search
  • ferret,
  • rifle through,
  • go in quest of,
  • looks for,
  • chase after,
  • looking for,
  • searches,
  • smell around,
  • looked for,
  • Ferrets,
  • Ferreting,
  • poke into,
  • Ferreted,
  • hunt for,
  • beat about,
  • gun for.
  •separate
  • compartmentalized,
  • islanding,
  • rope off,
  • closing off,
  • roped off,
  • put on side,
  • compartmentalize,
  • Separating,
  • stand between,
  • closed off,
  • roping off,
  • close off,
  • Islands,
  • Islanded,
  • spacing,
  • compartmentalizing,
  • intervaled,
  • draw apart,
  • put on one side,
  • compartmentalizes,
  • compartmented.

Paraphrases for Sift:

• Independent

  • Adjective
    shift, gearshift.
  • Proper noun, singular
    handlers, makes.
  • Verb, base form
    reviewing.

Antonyms for Sift:

• v.

  • take out residue; remove impurities
    dirty, put in, adulterate, combine, join.

Sift Sentence Examples:

• On 13th May Pitt sent to him to sift any grains of truth that there might be in this peck of lies.

• I sift the snow on the mountains below, And their great pines groan aghast; And all the night 'tis my pillow white, While I sleep in the arms of the Blast.

Homophones for Sift:

• sapid, shaped, sabot, septate, spode, sabbatia, sapote, soft, speedy, saucepot, subedit, size of it, soft wheat, s-shaped, seafood, sieve out, shavuoth, sofa bed, saphead, spayed, sepiidae, swift, shufti, sept, shift, soffit, spat, speedway, sapota, six-spot, softie, showboat, sick-abed, sea boat, swept, soft diet, spew out, sapidity, shaved, sausage-shaped, speed, softy, sabaoth, scaphopoda, svoboda, softheaded, Sq Ft, shabuoth, subdued, spite, soap-weed, scaphopod, spade, shaft, sabbat, seabed, safety, ski boot, spotty, shop at, sociopath, spout, septette, schizophyta, softwood, subdue, saved, sawpit, soapweed, spit, scoop out, subhead, sauceboat, scaphoid, safety hat, soft-witted, septet, soap pad, sapwood, Sept. 11, suavity, schizopoda, sissified, shebat, spathe, spot, spit out, sabbath, shevat, spate, sackbut, spotted, sexpot, spud, sickbed, shavuot, sexcapade, soviet, shifty.

Hypernym for Sift:

• v.

  • contact
    riddle, winnow, resift, rice, screen.

Hyponym for Sift:

• v.

  • contact
    separate.
  • motion
    go, locomote, move, travel.