SIFT meaning: Separate fine particles through mesh

We found 41 dictionaries that define the word SIFT:

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General (30 matching dictionaries)

sift: Merriam-Webster.com
sift, sift: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
sift: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
sift: Collins English Dictionary
sift: Vocabulary.com
Sift, sift: Wordnik
sift: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
sift: Wiktionary
sift: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
sift: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
sift: Infoplease Dictionary
sift: Dictionary.com
sift: Online Etymology Dictionary
sift: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
SIFT, Sift (disambiguation), Sift: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Sift: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
sift: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
sift: Rhymezone
Sift: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
sift: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
sift: Free Dictionary
sift: Mnemonic Dictionary
sift: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
sift: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (1 matching dictionary)

sift: Legal dictionary

Computing (3 matching dictionaries)

SIFT: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
BABEL: Computer Oriented Abbreviations and Acronyms (No longer online)
sift: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)

online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)

SIFT: Acronym Finder
AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
sift: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)

sift: PlanetMath Encyclopedia

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)

sift, sift: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
Sift: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (SIFT)

▸ verb:  To sieve or strain (something).
▸ verb:  To separate or scatter (things) as if by sieving.
▸ verb:  To examine (something) carefully.
▸ verb:  [+object] (archaic or old-fashioned) To scrutinise (someone or something) carefully so as to find the truth.
▸ verb:  [+ through (object)] To carefully go through a set of objects, or a collection of information, in order to find something.
▸ verb:  (computing, dated) To move data records up in memory to make space to insert further records.
▸ noun:  An act of sifting.
▸ noun:  (computer graphics) Initialism of scale-invariant feature transform.
▸ noun:  (US, military) Initialism of Selection Instrument Flight Training.

Similar:

sieve, strain, sift through, filter, sift out, outsift, screen out, filtre, resift, falter, more...

Opposite:

sort, screen, separate

Types:

bolting cloth, brduster, brsieve, bulk sifter, candy sifter, cocosifter, flour sifter, meal sifter, more...

Phrases:

sift through, sift out, to sift out, SIFT Workstation - Digital Forensics and Incident Response Distribution, to sift, more...

Adjectives:

soft, initial, first, fine, pca, slow, harvard, postal, fat, unregarded, total

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