noun
definition
That which winnows or which is used in winnowing; a contrivance for fanning or winnowing grain.
verb
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To subject (granular material, especially food grain) to a current of air separating heavier and lighter components, as grain from chaff.
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To separate, sift, analyze, or test by separating items having different values.
example
They winnowed the field to twelve.
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To blow upon or toss about by blowing; to set in motion as with a fan or wings.
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To move about with a flapping motion, as of wings; to flutter.
Examples of winnow in a Sentence
Seasonal inflow may, for example, winnow out sediments from breccias and other areas, to redeposit them elsewhere.
Search Engine - A number of scholarship search engines will winnow results according to a student's unique situation, including whether he or she plans to take distance courses.
Sieyes, conscious that his political mechanism would merely winnow the air, until the profoundly able and forceful man at his side adapted it to the work of government, relapsed into silence; and his resignation of the office of consul, together with that of Ducos, was announced as imminent.