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Meanings of winnow in English

Catalan
porgada
Spanish
sifting

The act of separating grain from chaff.

porgada
Portuguese
escolher
Spanish
seleccionar

Select desirable parts from a group or list.

escolher
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Examples for "cull out"
Examples for "cull out"
1
Any cattle that I cull out here are abandoned, you understand, simply abandoned.
Wells Brothers: The Young Cattle Kings
2
It would be utterly stupid to roll this cull out as a policy.
The Guardian
3
Used the lock-in correlator, to cull out the genuine noise.
Timescape
4
We are going to do our job at last... to choose among men, and to cull out the mad dogs.
The Postman
5
Now that these seedlings are beginning to bear we are able to cull out any that prove to be very inferior.
Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at th...

Separate the chaff from by using air currents.

Technique from machine learning for learning a linear classifier from labeled examples.

Usage of winnow in English
1
Stars can also be used to winnow which reviews you need to read.
Independent.ie
2
Only having taken it in, we do winnow and sift it.
The Cloister and the Hearth
3
Thus did our superintendent winnow the chaff from the wheat continually.
The Iron Horse
4
Selling OneMain would allow Citigroup to winnow Citi Holdings even further.
Reuters
5
Meekly, she spoke, Our people, Prometheus, they winnow into the winds.
Book Four: Tales From Ancient Days
6
I really winnow it down before we go into production.
The new yorker
7
He doth both harvest and winnow on the Holy Sabbath.
The Coming of the King
8
Will psychiatry be able to winnow the next one in the nursery of classroom?
The new yorker
9
Agendas. But you have to winnow a lot of chaff to find the wheat.
The Guardian
10
To winnow that number down, the researchers randomly selected 60 non-fatal cases from each year.
Reuters
11
The object of this was to winnow out as much of the sand as possible.
Reminiscences of a South African Pioneer
12
Ideally, he'd like to winnow the numbers down again.
The Naked God
13
It's fine to have staff do the preliminary visits, winnow out the chaff, as it were.
Mcgillivray's mistress
14
How they winnow our works of Christian activity!
Expositions of Holy Scripture : St. Matthew Chaps. IX to XXVIII
15
Trying to winnow down the field, though, could set off a volcanic eruption from those left out.
Reuters
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Analysts said a key challenge that Lu faces is to train employees to winnow out risky suppliers.
Reuters
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Translations for winnow
Portuguese
escolher
Winnow through the time