- winnow, winnowing, sifting - the act of separating grain from chaff; "the winnowing was done by women"
--1 is a kind of separation
Derived form: verb sift2
- sift - move as if through a sieve; "The soldiers sifted through the woods"
--1 is one way to travel, go, move, locomote
Sample sentences:
Something is ----ing PP
Somebody ----s PP
- sift, sieve, strain - separate by passing through a sieve or other straining device to separate out coarser elements; "sift the flour"
--2 is one way to separate
Sample sentences:Derived forms: noun sifter1, noun sifting1, noun sieve1
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
- sieve, sift - check and sort carefully; "sift the information"
--3 is one way to analyze, analyse, study, examine, canvass, canvas
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
- sieve, sift - distinguish and separate out; "sift through the job candidates"
--4 is one way to choose, take, select, pick out
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s somebody
- sift, sieve, strain - separate by passing through a sieve or other straining device to separate out coarser elements; "sift the flour"