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Significados de sifting en inglés

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sifting

The act of separating grain from chaff.

sifting
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peneiração
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tamizado

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

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Examples for "winnowing"
Examples for "winnowing"
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His thoughts whirled around in his mind like chaff in a winnowing-machine.
The Adventures of Captain Horn
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This process of winnowing was of course counterbalanced by another of recruitment.
A Footnote to History: Eight Years of Trouble in Samoa
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They scattered, as the chronicles record, like chaff from the winnowing fan.
The Fountains of Paradise
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The left hand holding a scoop for winnowing corn; the other points upwards.
Mornings in Florence
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The winnowing of grain is conducted in the most slovenly manner.
Narrative of a Mission to Central Africa Performed in the Years ...
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Stars can also be used to winnow which reviews you need to read.
Independent.ie
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Only having taken it in, we do winnow and sift it.
The Cloister and the Hearth
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Thus did our superintendent winnow the chaff from the wheat continually.
The Iron Horse
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Selling OneMain would allow Citigroup to winnow Citi Holdings even further.
Reuters
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Meekly, she spoke, Our people, Prometheus, they winnow into the winds.
Book Four: Tales From Ancient Days
Uso de sifting en inglés
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We need more data from the body before we can start sifting.'
Something in the water
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There were too many people in Madras interested in sifting the facts.
Phantom Fortune, a Novel
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The following is the result of the sifting test of this sand:
Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, vol. LX...
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The wagon lumbered away with the sifting dust gushing from the wheels.
The Emigrant Trail
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The panel could start sifting through the paperwork as early as September.
The Guardian
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Another was Mercer's, with years of data I'd spend ages sifting through.
Sea of Rust
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But sand started sifting through between it and the urn beside it.
The bone chamber
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Micah was busy sifting through the texts they'd received from the Duskoff.
Witch blood
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May went through the motions of sifting what passes for her memory.
The Guardian
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Once the automated data-sifting is complete, human analysis takes over, Khan says.
Wired
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Make shortcake by sifting dry ingredients, cut in fat, and add liquid.
Foods That Will Win the War and How to Cook Them (1918)
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We haven't finished sifting through the mess that was left behind yet.
Stolen heat
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Make a batter by mixing and sifting the flour, sugar, and salt.
Woman's Institute Library of Cookery. Volume 5: Fruit and Fruit ...
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His secretary, Maria, was already at her desk, sifting through the mail.
The Information Officer
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They should be turned every few hours, sifting over them more sugar.
The Whitehouse Cookbook (1887) / Cooking, Toilet and Household R...
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I know you, I said, sifting through the faces in my memory.
The Book of Life
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Translations for sifting
portugués
peneiração
Sifting a través del tiempo
Sifting por variante geográfica
Estados Unidos de América
Común
Reino Unido
Común