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 Stop, Investigate, Find, Trace (SIFT), a heuristic for verifying the accuracy of media claims Summary of Information on Film and Television, a database of the British Film Institute National Library Società Italiana Ferrovie e Tramvie, the Italian Railways and Tramways Company Summer Institute for Future Teachers, a residential summer program at Eastern Connecticut State University The Sift, a fictional dimension from Minecraft that makes its debut in its spin-off Minecraft Dungeons II

See also Sieve (disambiguation), for the word "sift" Sifted (formerly VeriShip), an American logistics company Sift (company), an American software company