SIFT
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sift¹
- /sɪft/
Rhymes with -ɪft
Where it comes from
From Middle English syften, from Old English siftan, from Proto-West Germanic *siftijan.
verb sifts · sifting · sifted
- To sieve or strain (something).
- To separate or scatter (things) as if by sieving.
- To scrutinize (someone or something) carefully so as to find the truth. As neere as I could ſift him on that argument, On ſome apparant danger ſeene in him, Aym‘d at your Highneſſe, no inueterate malice.
- [with through] To carefully go through a set of objects, or a collection of information, in order to find something. Sifting through the work of great orators like Philostratus and Quintilian they identify numerous examples of classical irony, metaphor, comparison, etc. which are missing in Paul.
- To move data records up in memory to make space to insert further records.
noun sifts
- An act of sifting.
SIFT²
proper noun
- Initialism of scale-invariant feature transform.scale-invariant feature transform
- Initialism of Selection Instrument Flight Training.Selection Instrument Flight Training
