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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 "sifting"
Examples for "sifting"
1
We need more data from the body before we can start sifting.'
Something in the water
2
There were too many people in Madras interested in sifting the facts.
Phantom Fortune, a Novel
3
The following is the result of the sifting test of this sand:
Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, vol. LX...
4
The wagon lumbered away with the sifting dust gushing from the wheels.
The Emigrant Trail
5
The panel could start sifting through the paperwork as early as September.
The Guardian
1
His thoughts whirled around in his mind like chaff in a winnowing-machine.
The Adventures of Captain Horn
2
This process of winnowing was of course counterbalanced by another of recruitment.
A Footnote to History: Eight Years of Trouble in Samoa
3
They scattered, as the chronicles record, like chaff from the winnowing fan.
The Fountains of Paradise
4
The left hand holding a scoop for winnowing corn; the other points upwards.
Mornings in Florence
5
The winnowing of grain is conducted in the most slovenly manner.
Narrative of a Mission to Central Africa Performed in the Years ...

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
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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
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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