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sifting [n]
 
1)the act of separating grain from chaff; "the winnowing was done by women"
    Synonyms :winnow winnowing 
    See Also: separation  sieve  fan 
 

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing: (http://www.foldoc.org/, Editor Denis Howe)

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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