sift out

To separate some class, kind, or size from others with or as if with a sieve: The jeweler sifted out the larger gems. An insurance investigator sifts the honest claims out from the false ones.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Irena	ee-RE-nah (Polish), ee-RAY-nah (Dutch)	Polish, Czech, Slovene, Croatian, Serbian, Dutch, Lithuanian
Young-Sook	yung-sook	Korean
İLkİN	-	Turkish, Azerbaijani
Bada	-	Anglo-Saxon
Ebele	-	Western African, Igbo
Platon	-	Ancient Greek, Greek, Russian