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- adjective Capable of being
sifted .
Etymologies
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sift + -able
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We can feel relatively secure about what Julius Caesar was like, or Augustus, or even Buddha, since there is a siftable degree of agreement between sources which might disagree at one point, and agree at another.
vanishedone commented on the word siftable
A kind of 'building block' as the basis for a human-computer interface.
February 14, 2009