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sift [sift]
(computer science)
To extract certain desired information items from a large quantity of data.

SIFT - SHARE Internal Fortran Translator. Translation utility designed for converting Fortran II to Fortran IV. The word "sift" was often used as a verb to describe converting code from one language to another. Sammet 1969, p.153.


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And, with this eternal lesson written in your soul, do you ask me to sift new wisdom for you out of my petty existence of two or three centuries?
We must sift this clear somehow," and he sighed to himself, for he believed in his "Shikarris," did the Colonel.
And she was sent into the kitchen, and made to fetch wood and water, to blow the fire, pluck the poultry, pick the herbs, sift the ashes, and do all the dirty work.
 
 
 
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