sift
see also: SIFT
Etymology
SIFT
Proper noun
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see also: SIFT
Etymology
From Middle English syften, from Old English siftan, from Proto-West Germanic *siftijan.
Pronunciation- IPA: /sɪft/
sift (sifts, present participle sifting; simple past and past participle sifted)
- To sieve or strain (something).
- To separate or scatter (things) as if by sieving.
- To examine (something) carefully.
- (archaic or old-fashioned) To scrutinise (someone or something) carefully so as to find the truth.
- 1595 December 9 (first known performance), William Shakespeare, “The life and death of King Richard the Second”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC ↗, [Act I, scene i], page 23 ↗, column 1:
- 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.
- (archaic or old-fashioned) To scrutinise (someone or something) carefully so as to find the truth.
- (computing, dated) To move data records up in memory to make space to insert further records.
- French: passer, tamiser
- German: sieben
- Italian: setacciare, vagliare
- Portuguese: discernir, cindir
- Russian: просе́ивать
- Spanish: tamizar, cernir
- French: éparpiller, disséminer
- German: sieben
- Italian: discernere
- Portuguese: peneirar
- Russian: отсе́ивать
- Spanish: separar
- German: sichten, durchgehen
- Italian: setacciare, esaminare minuziosamente
- Portuguese: examinar minuciosamente, discernir
- Spanish: examinar minuciosamente, juzgar
sift (plural sifts)
- An act of sifting.
SIFT
Proper noun
- (computer graphics) Init of w:scale-invariant feature transform
- (US, military) Init of Selection Instrument Flight Training
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