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Meaning
Verb
●
To
sieve
or
strain
(something).
●
To
separate
or
scatter
(things)
as if
by sieving.
●
To
examine
(something) carefully.
[+object] (archaic or
old-fashioned
) To
scrutinise
(someone
or something
)
carefully
so as to
find the truth.
[+ through (object)] To
carefully
go through
a set of
objects
, or a
collection
of information, in order to find something.
●
In Computing:
To
move
data
records
up in
memory
to make
space
to
insert
further
records
.
Name
●
Initialism of w:scale-invariant
feature
transform.
●
Initialism of Selection Instrument Flight Training.
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