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Significados de winnowing em inglês

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The act of separating grain from chaff.

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        Examples for "sifting"
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        We need more data from the body before we can start sifting.'
        Something in the water
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        There were too many people in Madras interested in sifting the facts.
        Phantom Fortune, a Novel
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        The following is the result of the sifting test of this sand:
        Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, vol. LX...
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        The wagon lumbered away with the sifting dust gushing from the wheels.
        The Emigrant Trail
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        The panel could start sifting through the paperwork as early as September.
        The Guardian
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        Stars can also be used to winnow which reviews you need to read.
        Independent.ie
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        Only having taken it in, we do winnow and sift it.
        The Cloister and the Hearth
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        Thus did our superintendent winnow the chaff from the wheat continually.
        The Iron Horse
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        Selling OneMain would allow Citigroup to winnow Citi Holdings even further.
        Reuters
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        Meekly, she spoke, Our people, Prometheus, they winnow into the winds.
        Book Four: Tales From Ancient Days
        Uso de winnowing em inglês
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        His thoughts whirled around in his mind like chaff in a winnowing-machine.
        The Adventures of Captain Horn
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        This process of winnowing was of course counterbalanced by another of recruitment.
        A Footnote to History: Eight Years of Trouble in Samoa
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        They scattered, as the chronicles record, like chaff from the winnowing fan.
        The Fountains of Paradise
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        The left hand holding a scoop for winnowing corn; the other points upwards.
        Mornings in Florence
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        The winnowing of grain is conducted in the most slovenly manner.
        Narrative of a Mission to Central Africa Performed in the Years ...
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        Citigroup Inc C.N management also faced questions about winnowing operating leverage.
        Reuters
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        The mystic winnowing-fan, encircled by Serpents, was used in the feasts of Bacchus.
        Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Fr...
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        Butel-Dumont describes the sieves and winnowing fans of the Louisiana Indians.
        Prehistoric Textile Art of Eastern United States / Thirteenth An...
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        But the caucuses serve a valuable role in winnowing the field.
        Reuters
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        Around the winnowing tray are set all the requisites for a plenteous meal.
        The Manóbos of Mindanáo / Memoirs of the National Academy of Sci...
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        It's a matter of ruling out possibilities and winnowing out suspects.
        Death angel
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        The hands caught his sides, saw-blade nails winnowing into the flesh.
        Stinger
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        Or else a filter sieves the cosmos, winnowing those who climb too high.
        Futures 1
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        Well, after that, Ischomachus, we will proceed to cleanse the corn by winnowing.
        The Economist
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        But without soul, alas what winnowing-machine in human elections, can be of avail?
        Past and Present
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        Ploughs, waggons, threshing-sledges, harrows, baskets, hurdles, winnowing-fans are the farmer's implements.
        The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia, Volume 1 of 28
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