sift
verb
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
- Direction
- arrow points to the broader concept
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Senses
Sense 1 verb
move as if through a sieve
The soldiers sifted through the woods
Types & categories
- move hypernym
Sense 2 verb
separate by passing through a sieve or other straining device to separate out coarser elements
sift the flour
Types & categories
Related & opposite
Sense 3 verb
check and sort carefully
sift the information
Types & categories
- study hypernym
Sense 4 verb
distinguish and separate out
sift through the job candidates
Types & categories
- choose hypernym
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | move |
| 2 | also see | Related & opposite | sieve out |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | winnow |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | sieve |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | sifter |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | strainer |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | separate |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | rice |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | resift |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | riddle |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | winnow |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | study |
| 4 | hypernym | Types & categories | choose |