sift
/sɪft/ verbo C1En español: tamizar, cerner, cernir, ahechar
- To sieve or strain (something).
- To separate or scatter (things) as if by sieving.
- [with through] To carefully go through a set of objects, or a collection of information, in order to find something.
- To move data records up in memory to make space to insert further records.
He/she/it sifts · Pasado sifted · Participio pasado sifted · Forma en -ing sifting
Formas del verbo
- Forma base
- sift
- He/she/it
- sifts
- Pasado
- sifted
- Participio pasado
- sifted
- Forma en -ing
- sifting
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Bell’s woods, where the light came down sifted through so many emerald screens that it was as flawless as the heart of a diamond.
These, then, had to be sifted and balanced against each other.
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