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Word | Winnow |
Japanese Meaning | 選り抜く, 選り抜きます, 選り出す |
the act of separating grain from chaff; the winnowing was done by women / to get rid of something unwanted / To separate chaff from grain. / blow away or off with a current of air / sift; separate good parts from bad / blow a current of air through (grain) in order to remove the chaff. / to remove (people or things that are less important, desirable, etc.) from a larger group or list : to make (a list of possible choices) smaller by removing the less desirable choices / to remove (the unwanted coverings of seeds) from grain by throwing the grain up in the air and letting the wind blow the unwanted parts away, | |
Usage | ⇒ Women are winnowing the wheat ⇒ This test will winnow out the students who study from those who don't bother. ⇒ The least qualified applicants were winnowed out of the initial pool. ⇒ As, when grain is shaken and winnowed by fans and other instruments used in the threshing of corn, the close and heavy particles are borne away and settle in one direction, and the loose and light par |
Synonyms | sift, screen, separate, fan, filter, sieve, sort, analyze, extract, examine, glean, pick, select, comb, cull, eliminate, refine, riddle, strain, thresh, |
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