0 to put flour, sugar, etc. through a sieve (= wire net shaped like a bowl) to break up large pieces:
1 to make a close examination of all the parts of something in order to find something or to separate what is useful from what is not:
2 to shake a powdered substance through a sieve in order to break lumps into very small grains:
3 to make a close examination of something:
Nevertheless, it may be claimed that the facts collected have been carefully sifted, the references conscientiously verified, and the opposing theories honestly presented.
He offers as a metaphor for the encounter of cultures that of a ' sifting ' : what happened to classical culture in passing through a biblical filter ?
The entire mixture was shaken thoroughly for 5 min and sifted through a coarse sieve of 250 mm pore size mesh.
By carefully sifting through a wide range of archival accounts (including mission accounts), the author has performed a very valuable service.
The pupae were then sifted and transferred to normal rearing cages and treated in the standard manner as above.
Observations were performed every 6 h by sifting the sand to record developmental duration.
Arguments are carefully explained and weighed and the findings of a wide range of research studies are sifted and summarised.
Note that even though the instantaneous signals contain large-amplitude random velocity fluctuations, the phase-averaging technique sifts out the coherent structure signatures.
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