Verb:

छान-बीन करना, कपड़छान करना, छानना, झारना,

sift's Usage Examples:

In a large bowl, sift together the cocoa, sugar, and salt.

The real work of criticism became possible only when great collections of manuscripts began to be made by the princes of the generation after Alexander, and when men of learning were employed to sift and arrange these treasures.

His method was to sift out the long dark waves which are associated with the short visible waves constituting the light of the sun or of the electric arc and to concentrate the former to a focus.

Organized tours provided sag wagons—vehi­cles to haul luggage from one overnight stop to another—but Dean preferred carrying his own gear rather than taking time to sift through a thousand sets of belongings nightly.

From this great mass of details, soon represented in Paris by the collection of some ioo,000 cards, it was possible, proceeding by exhaustion, to sift and sort down the cards till a small bundle of half a dozen produced the combined facts of the measurements of the individual last sought.

(1881-1882), which is the first account of the period written by one able to sift the statements of De Retz and the memoir writers, and rest upon such documents as Mazarin's letters and carnets.

Three forms with glowing tattoos were moving slowly toward the road, stopping to sift through the dead bodies.

However, if we carefully sift their characters, the flamingos obviously reveal themselves as much nearer related to the Ciconiae, especially to Platalea and Ibis, than to the Anseres.

She tried to sift through her emotions before she returned to his door.

He remained throughout the night, crawling on his hands and knees to sift through the debris.

Synonyms:

strain, riddle, screen, fan, winnow, rice, sieve, resift, separate,

Antonyms:

joint, dependent, same, common, unite,