Word.ws English Dictionary

sifts out

sifts out is the third-person singular simple present indicative of sift out.

Meaning of sift out

Verb

sift out (third-person singular simple present sifts out, present participle sifting out, simple past and past participle sifted out)

  1. (idiomatic) To isolate or identify one particular thing from a collection that includes less relevant things.
    • So in the waning days of the 20th Century, concert programmers and ticket-buyers alike have become informed and careful about what to sell and what to buy; to sift out the good new music from the not-so-good.1997, Valerie Cruice, When Do I Clap?: A Slightly Irreverent Guide to Classical Music and Concert Hall Conduct, →ISBN, page 129
    Synonyms:
    sieve out, winnow

Questions about sifts out

What is sifts out the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Sifts out is the third-person singular simple present indicative of sift out.

Words near sifts out in the dictionary

  1. siftingly
  2. siftings
  3. Sifton
  4. siftproof
  5. sifts
  6. sifts out
  7. sifts through
  8. sifu
  9. Sifuentez
  10. Sifuentezes
  11. sifus

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: sifts out (page history and authors); sift out (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “sifts out.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/sifts_out. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.