The act of separating grain from chaff.
Select desirable parts from a group or list.
Separate the chaff from by using air currents.
Technique from machine learning for learning a linear classifier from labeled examples.
1 Stars can also be used to winnow which reviews you need to read.
2 Only having taken it in, we do winnow and sift it.
3 Thus did our superintendent winnow the chaff from the wheat continually.
4 Selling OneMain would allow Citigroup to winnow Citi Holdings even further.
5 Meekly, she spoke, Our people, Prometheus, they winnow into the winds.
6 I really winnow it down before we go into production.
7 He doth both harvest and winnow on the Holy Sabbath.
8 Will psychiatry be able to winnow the next one in the nursery of classroom?
9 Agendas. But you have to winnow a lot of chaff to find the wheat.
10 To winnow that number down, the researchers randomly selected 60 non-fatal cases from each year.
11 The object of this was to winnow out as much of the sand as possible.
12 Ideally, he'd like to winnow the numbers down again.
13 It's fine to have staff do the preliminary visits, winnow out the chaff, as it were.
14 How they winnow our works of Christian activity!
15 Trying to winnow down the field, though, could set off a volcanic eruption from those left out.
16 Analysts said a key challenge that Lu faces is to train employees to winnow out risky suppliers.
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