Look up sift in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Sift refers to the straining action of a sifter or sieve.
Sift or SIFT may also refer to:
- Scale-invariant feature transform, an algorithm in computer vision to detect and describe local features in images
- Selected-ion flow tube, a technique used for mass spectrometry
- Shanghai Institute of Foreign Trade, a public university in Shanghai, China
- Summary of Information on Film and Television, a database of the British Film Institute National Library
- Summer Institute for Future Teachers, a residential summer program at Eastern Connecticut State University