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Sifting vs Filtering - What's the difference?

sifting | filtering |

As verbs the difference between sifting and filtering

is that sifting is present participle of lang=en while filtering is present participle of lang=en.

As nouns the difference between sifting and filtering

is that sifting is the act by which something is sifted while filtering is something that passes through a filter.

sifting

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act by which something is sifted.

    • Anagrams

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    filtering

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • Something that passes through a filter.
  • * 1819 , Abraham Rees, The Cyclopædia
    • the filterings from the subsoils
  • * 2006 , Christopher Rush, To Travel Hopefully (page 146)
    • Waking up in Langogne in a dim dawn, I felt in a strange sort of way more at home than I'd been for a long time in my own sadly altered version of home, even a year on from her death – especially in the first filterings of daylight

    Synonyms

    * filtrate