▸ verb: (transitive) To sieve or strain (something). ▸ verb: (transitive) To separate or scatter (things) as if by sieving. ▸ verb: (transitive) To examine (something) carefully. ▸ verb: (archaic or dated, transitive) To scrutinize (someone or something) carefully so as to find the truth. ▸ verb: (transitive) [with through] To carefully go through a set of objects, or a collection of information, in order to find something. ▸ verb: (computing, dated, transitive) To move data records up in memory to make space to insert further records. ▸ noun: An act of sifting. ▸ noun: (computer graphics) Initialism of scale-invariant feature transform. ▸ noun: (US, military) Initialism of Selection Instrument Flight Training.
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