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Sift

🔄 Synonyms of "Sift"

2 synonyms found via WordNet and Google Books.

Word	Definition
strainnoun	(biology) A particular variety of a microbe, virus, or other organism, usually a taxonomically infraspecific one.
sievenoun	A device with a mesh, grate, or otherwise perforated bottom to separate, in a granular material, larger particles from smaller ones, or to separate solid objects from a liquid.

💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Sift"

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Word	Definition
sieveverb	To strain, sift or sort using a sieve.
strainverb	(biology) A particular variety of a microbe, virus, or other organism, usually a taxonomically infraspecific one.
winnowverb	(transitive, agriculture, literal) To subject (granular material, especially food grain) to a current of air separating heavier and lighter components, as grain from chaff.
changeverb	(intransitive) To become something different.
amountverb	(intransitive, followed by to) To total or evaluate.
intermediateverb	(intransitive) To mediate, to be an intermediate.
intermediarynoun	An agent acting as a mediator between sides to facilitate agreement or cooperation.
factnoun	Something actual as opposed to invented.
selectverb	To choose one or more elements of a set, especially a set of options.
intermediariesnoun	An agent acting as a mediator between sides to facilitate agreement or cooperation.
intermediatesnoun	Anything in an intermediate position.
sift throughverb	(idiomatic, transitive) To carefully go through a set of objects, or a collection of information, in order to find something.
filternoun	A device which separates a suspended, dissolved, or particulate matter from a fluid, solution, or other substance; any device that separates one substance from another.
sift outverb	(idiomatic) To isolate or identify one particular thing from a collection that includes less relevant things.
outsiftverb	(transitive, poetic, archaic) To sift out.
screen outverb	(transitive, figuratively) To exclude selectively.
filtrenoun	Obsolete form of filter. [A device which separates a suspended, dissolved, or particulate matter from a fluid, solution, or other substance; any device that separates one substance from another.]
resiftnoun	(transitive) To sift again.
falternoun	An unsteadiness.
shrednoun	A fragment of something; a particle; a piece; also, a very small amount.