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Sifting

🔄 Synonyms of "Sifting"

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Word	Definition
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.
winnowingnoun	The act of separating chaff from grain.

💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Sifting"

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Word	Definition
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.
winnowingnoun	The act of separating chaff from grain.
sievingnoun	The act of passing something through a sieve.
cribrationnoun	sifting, especially of the finer parts of drugs from the coarser parts.
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.
screeningnoun	The showing of a film, typically by projecting it on a screen.
screennoun	A physical divider intended to block an area from view, or provide shelter from something dangerous.
examinationnoun	(education) A formal test involving answering written or oral questions under a time constraint and usually without access to textbooks; typically, a large, written test administered to high school and college students covering course material studied in a semester.
siftagenoun	The process of sifting.
silenoun	A sieve.
riddlingnoun	The posing or solving of a riddle.
boltingnoun	An act of bolting or running away.
threshingnoun	The process by which something is threshed.
garbelnoun	(obsolete) Anything sifted, or from which the coarse parts have been taken.
skimmernoun	(crime) A device used to read and record the magnetic code from a credit card for later fraudulent use.
grittingverb	The act by which something is gritted.
siuenoun	Obsolete spelling of sieve. [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.]
scoopingverb	The process or result of something being scooped.
scrubbingnoun	An act of cleaning in which something is scrubbed.
scutchingnoun	The separation of the woody shives from flax, hemp, and jute fibres by beating with a scutch.