Word Meanings - SIFT - Book Publishers vocabulary database
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. 2. To separate or part as if with a sieve. When yellow sands are sifted from below, The glittering
Additional info about word: SIFT
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. 2. To separate or part as if with a sieve. When yellow sands are sifted from below, The glittering billows give a golden show. Dryden. 3. To examine critically or minutely; to scrutinize. Sifting the very utmost sentence and syllable. Hooker. Opportunity I here have had To try thee, sift thee. Milton. Let him but narrowly sift his ideas. I. Taylor. To sift out, to search out with care, as if by sifting.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of SIFT)
- Argue
- Discuss
- debate
- prove
- question
- evidence
- establish
- imply
- sift
- dispute
- persuade
- controvert
- contend
- demonstrate
- reason
- Canvass Question
- Investigate
- challenge
- test
- solicit
- examine
- discuss
- apply for
- request
- Detail Particularize
- enumerate
- recount
- individualize
- analyze
- specify
- Winnow
- Sift
- simplify
- eliminate
- disencumber
- sort
Possible antonyms: (opposite words of SIFT)
Related words: (words related to SIFT)
- PROVENTRIULUS
The glandular stomach of birds, situated just above the crop. - PROVERBIAL
1. Mentioned or comprised in a proverb; used as a proverb; hence, commonly known; as, a proverbial expression; his meanness was proverbial. In case of excesses, I take the German proverbial cure, by a hair of the same beast, to be the worst. Sir - STATESMANLIKE
Having the manner or wisdom of statesmen; becoming a statesman. - IMPLY
1. To infold or involve; to wrap up. "His head in curls implied." Chapman. 2. To involve in substance or essence, or by fair inference, or by construction of law, when not include virtually; as, war implies fighting. Where a mulicious act is - STATEHOOD
The condition of being a State; as, a territory seeking Statehood. - ENDORSER
See INDORSER - ELIMINATE
To cause to disappear from an equation; as, to eliminate an unknown quantity. 3. To set aside as unimportant in a process of inductive inquiry; to leave out of consideration. Eliminate errors that have been gathering and accumulating. Lowth. 4. - PERSUADER
One who, or that which, persuades or influences. "Powerful persuaders." Milton. - AFFIRMATIVELY
In an affirmative manner; on the affirmative side of a question; in the affirmative; -- opposed to negatively. - WINNOW
comp.), winpi-skauro a fan, L. ventilare to fan, to winnow; cf. L. wannus a fan for winnowing, G. wanne, OHG. wanna. . See Wind moving 1. To separate, and drive off, the chaff from by means of wind; to fan; as, to winnow grain. Ho winnoweth barley - ASSERT
self, claim, maintain; ad + serere to join or bind together. See 1. To affirm; to declare with assurance, or plainly and strongly; to state positively; to aver; to asseverate. Nothing is more shameful . . . than to assert anything to - REASONING
1. The act or process of adducing a reason or reasons; manner of presenting one's reasons. 2. That which is offered in argument; proofs or reasons when arranged and developed; course of argument. His reasoning was sufficiently profound. Macaulay. - PERSUADED
Prevailed upon; influenced by argument or entreaty; convinced. -- Per*suad"ed*ly, adv. -- Per*suad"ed*ness, n. - PROVENCAL
Of or pertaining to Provence or its inhabitants. - ALLOWEDLY
By allowance; admittedly. Shenstone. - ASSERTORY
Affirming; maintaining. Arguments . . . assertory, not probatory. Jer. Taylor. An assertory, not a promissory, declaration. Bentham. A proposition is assertory, when it enounces what is known as actual. Sir W. Hamilton. - ALLOW
allocare to admit as proved, to place, use; confused with OF. aloer, fr. L. allaudare to extol; ad + laudare to praise. See Local, and cf. 1. To praise; to approve of; hence, to sanction. Ye allow the deeds of your fathers. Luke xi. 48. We commend - DISENCUMBER
To free from encumbrance, or from anything which clogs, impedes, or obstructs; to disburden. Owen. I have disencumbered myself from rhyme. Dryden. - INDIVIDUALIZER
One who individualizes. - ALLOWER
1. An approver or abettor. 2. One who allows or permits. - CREBRICOSTATE
Marked with closely set ribs or ridges. - DENUNCIATE
To denounce; to condemn publicly or solemnly. To denunciate this new work. Burke. - HALLOW
To make holy; to set apart for holy or religious use; to consecrate; to treat or keep as sacred; to reverence. "Hallowed be thy name." Matt. vi. 9. Hallow the Sabbath day, to do no work therein. Jer. xvii. 24. His secret altar touched with hallowed - CALLOW
1. Destitute of feathers; naked; unfledged. An in the leafy summit, spied a nest, Which, o'er the callow young, a sparrow pressed. Dryden. 2. Immature; boyish; "green"; as, a callow youth. I perceive by this, thou art but a callow maid. Old Play . - INEVIDENCE
Want of evidence; obscurity. Barrow. - SAGEBRUSH STATE
Nevada; -- a nickname. - THRYFALLOW
To plow for the third time in summer; to trifallow. Tusser. - OLD LINE STATE
Maryland; a nickname, alluding to the fact that its northern boundary in Mason and Dixon's line. - ENSTATE
See INSTATE - CROSS-EXAMINER
One who cross-examines or conducts a crosse-examination. - APPROVEDLY
So as to secure approbation; in an approved manner. - SALLOWISH
Somewhat sallow. Dickens.