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winnow    音標拼音: [w'ɪn,o]
vt. 吹掉,吹開糠皮,把挑出來,精選
vi. 揚谷,分出好壞,飛行
n. 揚谷,揚谷器

吹掉,吹開糠皮,把挑出來,精選揚穀,分出好壞,飛行揚谷,揚穀器

winnow
n 1: the act of separating grain from chaff; "the winnowing was
done by women" [synonym: {winnow}, {winnowing}, {sifting}]
v 1: separate the chaff from by using air currents; "She stood
there winnowing chaff all day in the field" [synonym: {winnow},
{fan}]
2: blow on; "The wind was winnowing her hair"; "the wind
winnowed the grass"
3: 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" [synonym: {cull
out}, {winnow}]
4: blow away or off with a current of air; "winnow chaff"

Winnow \Win"now\ (w[i^]n"n[-o]), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Winnowed}
(w[i^]n"n[-o]d); p. pr. & vb. n. {Winnowing}.] [OE. windewen,
winewen, AS. windwian; akin to Goth. winpjan (in comp.),
winpi-skauro a fan, L. ventilare to fan, to winnow; cf. L.
wannus a fan for winnowing, G. wanne, OHG. wanna. [root]131.
See {Wind} moving air, and cf. {Fan}., n., {Ventilate}.]
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1. To separate, and drive off, the chaff from by means of
wind; to fan; as, to winnow grain.
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Ho winnoweth barley to-night in the threshing floor.
--Ruth. iii.
2.
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2. To sift, as for the purpose of separating falsehood from
truth; to separate, as bad from good.
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Winnow well this thought, and you shall find
This light as chaff that flies before the wind.
--Dryden.
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3. To beat with wings, or as with wings.[Poetic]
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Now on the polar winds; then with quick fan
Winnows the buxom air. --Milton.
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Winnow \Win"now\, v. i.
To separate chaff from grain.
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Winnow not with every wind. --Ecclus. v.
9.
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123 Moby Thesaurus words for "winnow":
aerate, air, air out, air-condition, air-cool, airify, analyze,
appraise, assess, bolt, catalog, categorize, choose out, clarifier,
clarify, class, classify, clear, colander, comb, contradistinguish,
cordon, cordon off, cradle, cribble, cross-ventilate, cull,
cull out, decide between, decrassify, demarcate, demark, depurate,
differentiate, discriminate, distill, distinguish, divide,
draw the line, edulcorate, elute, essentialize, evaluate, excerpt,
extract, factor, fan, filter, filtrate, freshen, gauge, ghettoize,
gin, glean, group, handpick, identify, insulate, isolate,
keep apart, keep aside, lay aside, leach, lixiviate, lixiviator,
make a selection, mark the interface, oxygenate, oxygenize,
percolate, percolator, pick, pick out, purifier, purify, put aside,
quarantine, rectify, refine, refiner, refinery, refresh, riddle,
rocker, ruffle, screen, screen out, seclude, segregate, select,
separate, set a limit, set apart, set aside, set off, sever,
severalize, sieve, sieve out, sift, sift out, sifter, single out,
sort, sort out, spiritualize, split hairs, strain, strainer,
subdivide, sublimate, sublime, subtilize, thrash, thrash out,
thresh, try, ventilate, weigh, wind, winnowing basket,
winnowing fan, winnowing machine

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