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Meanings of sifting in English

Catalan
porgada
Spanish
sifting

The act of separating grain from chaff.

        porgada
        Portuguese
        peneiração
        Spanish
        tamizado

        Sorting materials, especially flour, by passing them through mesh screens.

              peneiração
              Usage of sifting in English
              1
              We need more data from the body before we can start sifting.'
              Something in the water
              2
              There were too many people in Madras interested in sifting the facts.
              Phantom Fortune, a Novel
              3
              The following is the result of the sifting test of this sand:
              Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, vol. LX...
              4
              The wagon lumbered away with the sifting dust gushing from the wheels.
              The Emigrant Trail
              5
              The panel could start sifting through the paperwork as early as September.
              The Guardian
              6
              Another was Mercer's, with years of data I'd spend ages sifting through.
              Sea of Rust
              7
              But sand started sifting through between it and the urn beside it.
              The bone chamber
              8
              Micah was busy sifting through the texts they'd received from the Duskoff.
              Witch blood
              9
              May went through the motions of sifting what passes for her memory.
              The Guardian
              10
              Once the automated data-sifting is complete, human analysis takes over, Khan says.
              Wired
              11
              Make shortcake by sifting dry ingredients, cut in fat, and add liquid.
              Foods That Will Win the War and How to Cook Them (1918)
              12
              We haven't finished sifting through the mess that was left behind yet.
              Stolen heat
              13
              Make a batter by mixing and sifting the flour, sugar, and salt.
              Woman's Institute Library of Cookery. Volume 5: Fruit and Fruit ...
              14
              His secretary, Maria, was already at her desk, sifting through the mail.
              The Information Officer
              15
              They should be turned every few hours, sifting over them more sugar.
              The Whitehouse Cookbook (1887) / Cooking, Toilet and Household R...
              16
              I know you, I said, sifting through the faces in my memory.
              The Book of Life
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              Translations for sifting
              Portuguese
              peneiração
              Sifting through the time
              Sifting across language varieties
              United States of America
              Common
              United Kingdom
              Common