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sift 音标拼音: [s'ɪft]
vt. 筛,过滤,撒,详查
vi. 筛,被筛下,精选 筛,过滤,撒,详查筛,被筛下,精选 sift v 1: move as if through a sieve; "The soldiers sifted through the woods" 2: separate by passing through a sieve or other straining device to separate out coarser elements; "sift the flour" [synonym: {sift}, {sieve}, {strain}] 3: check and sort carefully; "sift the information" [synonym: {sieve}, {sift}] 4: distinguish and separate out; "sift through the job candidates" [synonym: {sieve}, {sift}] Sift \Sift\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Sifted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Sifting}.] [AS. siftan, from sife sieve. [root]151a. See {Sieve}.] 1. To separate with a sieve, as the fine part of a substance from the coarse; as, to sift meal or flour; to sift powder; to sift sand or lime. [1913 Webster] 2. To separate or part as if with a sieve. [1913 Webster] When yellow sands are sifted from below, The glittering billows give a golden show. --Dryden. [1913 Webster] 3. To examine critically or minutely; to scrutinize. [1913 Webster] Sifting the very utmost sentence and syllable. --Hooker. [1913 Webster] Opportunity I here have had To try thee, sift thee. --Milton. [1913 Webster] Let him but narrowly sift his ideas. --I. Taylor. [1913 Webster] {To sift out}, to search out with care, as if by sifting. [1913 Webster] 150 Moby Thesaurus words for "sift": air, analyze, appraise, assess, assort, bolt, canvass, catalog, categorize, choose, choose out, clarify, class, classify, clear, collate, comb, comment upon, consider, contradistinguish, controvert, cordon, cordon off, cull, cull out, deal with, debate, decide between, decrassify, deliberate, deliberate upon, delve into, demarcate, demark, depurate, differentiate, dig into, discourse about, discriminate, discuss, distill, distinguish, divide, draw the line, edulcorate, elute, essentialize, evaluate, examine, excerpt, exchange views, explore, extract, factor, fathom, filter, filtrate, gauge, ghettoize, gin, glean, go into, gradate, grade, group, handle, handpick, identify, indagate, inquire into, insulate, investigate, isolate, keep apart, keep aside, knock around, lay aside, leach, lixiviate, look into, make a selection, mark the interface, pass under review, peer into, percolate, pick, pick out, plumb, poke into, probe, prospect, pry into, purify, put aside, quarantine, rank, rap, reason, reason about, reason the point, rectify, refine, review, riddle, screen, screen out, scrutinize, search into, seclude, segregate, select, separate, set a limit, set apart, set aside, set off, sever, severalize, sieve, sieve out, sift out, single out, size, sort, sort out, sound, spiritualize, split hairs, strain, study, subdivide, sublimate, sublime, subordinate, subtilize, take up, talk, talk about, talk of, talk over, thrash, thrash out, thresh, thresh out, treat, try, ventilate, weed out, weigh, winnow SHARE Internal Fortran Translator. Translation utility
designed for converting Fortran II to Fortran IV. The word "sift" was often used as a verb to describe converting code from one language to another. Sammet 1969, p.153.
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