different between sift vs sirt

English

From Middle English syften, from Old English siftan, from Proto-West Germanic *siftijan.

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

To sieve or strain (something).
To separate or scatter (things) as if by sieving.
To examine (something) carefully.
1. [+object] (archaic or old-fashioned) To scrutinise (someone or something) carefully so as to find the truth.
  - 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.
(computing, dated) To move data records up in memory to make space to insert further records.

See syrt.

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