Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In milling and baking, a machine for sifting flour preparatory to blending it or using it in baking. It consists of a sieve inclosed in a casing and fitted with a cylindrical brush which, revolving above the sieve, breaks up all the lumps and presses the flour through the sieve.
- noun One who sifts, in any sense; especially, one employed in the operation of sifting loose matter.
- noun A sieve, particularly one differing in form and use from the common sieve, as for sorting matter of differing sizes, sifting ashes from partly burned coal, or the like.
- noun plural Specifically, in ornithology, the lamellirostral birds, as ducks and geese; sievebeaks.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who, or that which, sifts.
- noun (Zoöl.) Any lamellirostral bird, as a duck or goose; -- so called because it sifts or strains its food from the water and mud by means of the lamell� of the beak.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A tool for
sifting , especially one for powdered cooking ingredients. - noun rare One who sifts.
- noun Any
lamellirostral bird, as a duck or goose, so called because it sifts or strains its food from the water and mud by means of thelamellae of thebeak .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a household sieve (as for flour)
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Examples
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A large sifter is good for the first few strainings but when you're down to the teensy knitty grit, a smaller sifter is better.
Archive 2007-11-01 Anne-Marie 2007
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A large sifter is good for the first few strainings but when you're down to the teensy knitty grit, a smaller sifter is better.
Anti-Talc - Day Two - Fragrance and Color Anne-Marie 2007
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But even if your goal is to have a lot of followers, following people makes you a better 'sifter'; someone who pick through what people are talking about and find interesting topics and threads. "
Lee Stranahan: Pssst! Ashton! Demi! You're Sorta Missing The Point Of Twitter! 2009
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I could appreciate a gmail-sifter to find patterns in my mail: suggesting new labels, perhaps identifying things I consistently leave in the inbox instead of filing (and for what reasons?)
Midnight posty 4brad 2010
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In the end, I don't think the sifter, itself, would come up with the best patterns on its own: this would need to generalize the patterns as rules, which you could share with others, and collectively figure out which rules are useful.
Midnight posty 4brad 2010
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A combination of a snow blower and farming sifter called the 'Sand Shark' is on hand to help clean the tar, but the machine only goes to a depth of six inches, and CNN shows that a layer of oil remains deep below that.
Gulf Oil Spill Crude Remains Beneath The Sand 6 Months Later (VIDEO) The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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A combination of a snow blower and farming sifter called the 'Sand Shark' is on hand to help clean the tar, but the machine only goes to a depth of six inches, and CNN shows that a layer of oil remains deep below that.
Gulf Oil Spill Crude Remains Beneath The Sand 6 Months Later (VIDEO) Travis Walter Donovan 2010
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I could appreciate a gmail-sifter to find patterns in my mail: suggesting new labels, perhaps identifying things I consistently leave in the inbox instead of filing (and for what reasons?)
Midnight posty da_lj 2010
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A combination of a snow blower and farming sifter called the 'Sand Shark' is on hand to help clean the tar, but the machine only goes to a depth of six inches, and CNN shows that a layer of oil remains deep below that.
Gulf Oil Spill Crude Remains Beneath The Sand 6 Months Later (VIDEO) Travis Walter Donovan 2010
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In the end, I don't think the sifter, itself, would come up with the best patterns on its own: this would need to generalize the patterns as rules, which you could share with others, and collectively figure out which rules are useful.
Midnight posty da_lj 2010
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