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Meanings of sift in inglês

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To separate by passing through a sieve or other straining device to separate out coarser elements.

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Usage of sift in inglês
1
Mix and sift dry ingredients; add milk and melted shortening; beat well.
The New Dr. Price Cookbook
2
Mix and sift the dry ingredients; add the milk and melted fat.
Everyday Foods in War Time
3
Pour in the milk and sift the dry ingredients into this mixture.
Woman's Institute Library of Cookery. Volume 4: Salads and Sandw...
4
Here, sir, these are my scribblings; sift the faults and the defaults.
The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete
5
Both will help iPhone users better organize and sift through their photos.
Reuters
6
Mix the baking-powder and salt with the flour and sift all together.
A Little Cook Book for a Little Girl
7
It must sift through a tremendous amount of data to do this.
Wired
8
I mean to start in at once to sift this thing down.
Dave Darrin's First Year at Annapolis / Two Plebe Midshipmen at ...
9
You can't sift a digital scan of a human mind for information.
Red Planet Blues
10
Ai can sift and correlate across all of human knowledge, in seconds.
Existence
11
Boil two eggs hard, chop the whites fine and sift the yolks.
How to Cook Fish
12
As I sift back further, the evening comes in bursts of images.
Crewel
13
Some of the evidence the prosecution had to sift through was brutal.
The South African
14
Prosecutors have a lot of material to sift through as they investigate.
Reuters
15
Now comes the dry ingredients, add the flour, which you can sift.
The South African
16
One day I sent him to beat out and sift some grain.
The Elson Readers, Book 5
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South Africa
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United States of America
Common
United Kingdom
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