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UK
/wˈɪnəʊ/
]
[ US /ˈwɪˌnoʊ/ ]
[ US /ˈwɪˌnoʊ/ ]
VERB
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blow away or off with a current of air
The speaker ceased to be an amusing little gnat to be fanned away and was kicked off the forum
winnow chaff -
blow on
the wind winnowed the grass
The wind was winnowing her hair -
select desirable parts from a group or list
cull out the interesting letters from the poet's correspondence
winnow the finalists from the long list of applicants -
separate the chaff from grain by using air currents
She stood there winnowing grain all day in the field
NOUN
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the act of separating grain from chaff
the winnowing was done by women
How To Use winnow In A Sentence
- My task is to winnow through what remains after the onslaught and pick up unconsidered trifles they might have missed. THE FIVE MILLION DOLLAR PRINCE
- Note 61: CS 1601; Proto-Mashariki * - pung - "to winnow, to fan"; PNECB * - pung "to winnow, to fan, to exorcise"; e.g., Societies, Religion, and History: Central East Tanzanians and the World They Created, c. 200 BCE to 1800 CE
- The chaff is winnowed out by the activities of millions of independent actions.
- Then take that instrument used in winnowing the corn, which in our country dialect we call a wecht, and go through all the attitudes of letting down corn against the wind. Halloween
- Objective To winnow and establish the optimal condition for ultrasonic extraction of total flavone from christina loosestrife herb.
- After all the grain have been removed from the mahangu heads this grain must be winnowed to remove the husks.
- In this steep economic downturn, markets are flushing out overcapacity, winnowing the weak from the strong.
- My task is to winnow through what remains after the onslaught and pick up unconsidered trifles they might have missed. THE FIVE MILLION DOLLAR PRINCE
- Mexico; while nothing more than their rations of rice are paid them here, which amount to three fanégas of unwinnowed rice apiece per month, and some additional aid from year to year, and between the departure of the vessels. The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 14 of 55 1606-1609 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of The Catholic Missions, As Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing
- [16] [16] Or, "the same chaff (i.e. unwinnowed corn, Angl. corn) twice. The Economist
