Sifting synonyms
Category:
Part of speech:
The act of winnowing
The act of separating chaff from grain.
To injure or impair by overuse or overexertion; wrench:
To make a search or examination of a collection of things:
To remove from a mixture or combination; isolate.
1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.4:
To scrutinize is to look at something very closely or very carefully.
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Screen is defined as to show, examine or separate.
To use precise distinctions and subtlety in thought or speech.
To search; investigate
To search into so as to learn the facts; inquire into systematically
To examine critically or carefully; especially, to search out problems or determine condition; to scrutinize.
(Computers) To use a filter to block or restrict access to:
To test by carefully questioning in order to find out the knowledge, skill, qualifications, etc. of (a student, witness, job applicant, etc.)
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To search thoroughly as if raking over an area with a comb.
Canvass is defined as to carefully examine or discuss something or to go through an area to get votes, orders or survey answers.
To separate, assort, refine, or purify by other means.
To separate into the constituent parts, for the purpose of an examination of each separately.
purifying (related)
To rid of impurities:
cleaning (related)
In a clean manner
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including (related)
Include is defined as to contain, enclose or consider as part of a whole.
Find another word for sifting. In this page you can discover 22 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for sifting, like: winnow, winnowing, straining, sorting, separating, searching, scrutinizing, screening, refining, probing and investigating.