HyperDic is a hyper-dictionary based on WordNet 2.1. This version links 147,249 word forms.
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| Shopping | The largest selection of SIFT products: USA, UK, Canada, Deutschland, France. |
| TV Shop | As seen on TV: beauty, diets, exercise, household, kitchen, personal, vitamins, and other popular TV-products. |
| VERB | 1 | sift | Move as if through a sieve |
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| 2 | sift, sieve, strain | Separate by passing through a sieve or other straining device to separate out coarser elements | |
| 3 | sift, sieve | Check and sort carefully | |
| 4 | sift, sieve | Distinguish and separate out |
| Sounds | sih'ft |
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| Rhymes | adrift, airlift, drift, and 15 more rhymes in ihft... |
| Meaning | Move as if through a sieve. |
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| Pattern | Something is ----ing PP; Somebody ----s PP |
| Examples | "The soldiers sifted through the woods" |
| Broader | travel, go, move, locomote |
| Meaning | Separate by passing through a sieve or other straining device to separate out coarser elements. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something |
| Examples | "sift the flour" |
| Synonyms | sieve, strain |
| Broader | separate |
| Narrower | rice; resift; riddle, screen; winnow, fan |
| Nouns | sifting; sieve; sifter |
| Meaning | Check and sort carefully. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something |
| Examples | "sift the information" |
| Synonyms | sieve |
| Broader | analyze, analyse, study, examine, canvass, canvas |
| Meaning | Distinguish and separate out. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s somebody |
| Examples | "sift through the job candidates" |
| Synonyms | sieve |
| Broader | choose, take, select, pick out |
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