To pass dry ingredients through a mesh sifter Sifting breaks coarser particles down or keeps them out of the food It also incorporates air, which makes ingredients lighter
separate by passing through a sieve or other straining device to separate out coarser elements; "sift the flour"
If you sift a powder such as flour or sand, you put it through a sieve in order to remove large pieces or lumps. Sift the flour and baking powder into a medium-sized mixing bowl. = sieve
To pass dry ingredients, usually flour, through a fine-meshed strainer or sifter to remove large pieces and lighten the texture
{f} break up the larger parts by passing through a sieve; sprinkle, scatter, disperse; examine with great care, investigate; be filtered, be sieved
To lighten or remove lumps from dry ingredients, such as flour or powdered sugar, by passing them through a fine strainer or sifter
separate by passing through a sieve or other straining device to separate out coarser elements; "sift the flour" move as if through a sieve; "The soldiers sifted through the woods
If you sift through something such as evidence, you examine it thoroughly. Police officers have continued to sift through the wreckage following yesterday's bomb attack Brook has sifted the evidence and summarises it clearly
To put dry ingredients through a sieve or other straining device in order to separate the fine from the coarse particles, add air or mix ingredients together
To put (flour, for example) through a sieve or other straining device in order to separate the fine from the coarse particles
Any lamellirostral bird, as a duck or goose; so called because it sifts or strains its food from the water and mud by means of the lamell&?; of the beak
any lamellirostral bird, as a duck or goose, so called because it sifts or strains its food from the water and mud by means of the lamellae of the beak