Associations to the word «Sifting»

Wiktionary

SIFTING, verb. Present participle of sift
SIFTING, noun. The act by which something is sifted.

Dictionary definition

SIFTING, noun. The act of separating grain from chaff; "the winnowing was done by women".

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne