siftとは

発音

• IPA^(key): /sɪft/
• 韻: -ɪft

動詞

sift (三人称単数 現在形 sifts, 現在分詞 sifting, 過去形および過去分詞形 sifted)

1. To sieve or strain (something).
2. To separate or scatter (things) as if by sieving.
3. To examine (something) carefully.
   1. [+object] (古風な用法 または old-fashioned) To scrutinise (someone または something) carefully so as to find the truth.
      • 1748, David Hume, Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral, London: Oxford University Press, published 1973, § 28:

        But if we still carry on our sifting humour, and ask, What is the foundation of all conclusions from experience ? this implies a new question.

      • 1764, Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto, Strawberry Hill Press:

        It immediately occurred to him to sift her on the subject of Isabella and Theodore.

   2. [+ through (object)] To carefully go through a set of objects, or a collection of information, in order to find something.
      • 1996, Timothy B. Savage, Power Through Weakness: Paul's Understanding of the Christian Ministry in 2 Corinthians, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, page 70:

        Sifting through the work of great orators like Philostratus and Quintilian they identify numerous examples of classical irony, metaphor, comparison, etc. which are missing in Paul.

派生語

• sifter

アナグラム

• FIST, FITs, FiTs, ITFs, fist, fits