sifts
/S IH1 F T S/verb
- 1
(transitive) To examine (something) carefully.
- 2
(transitive) To sieve or strain (something).
- 3
(transitive) To separate or scatter (things) as if by sieving.
- 4
(transitive) [with through] To carefully go through a set of objects, or a collection of information, in order to find something.
- 5
(archaic or dated, transitive) To scrutinize (someone or something) carefully so as to find the truth.
- 6
(computing, dated, transitive) To move data records up in memory to make space to insert further records.
noun
- 1
An act of sifting.
- 2
(computer graphics) Initialism of scale-invariant feature transform.
- 3
(US, military) Initialism of Selection Instrument Flight Training.
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