Winnow

Etymology
From, , , from , from , , from. Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬. See,.

Verb

 * 1)  To subject (granular material, especially food grain) to a current of air separating heavier and lighter components, as grain from chaff.
 * 2)  To separate, sift, analyze, or test by separating items having different values.
 * They winnowed the field to twelve.
 * They winnowed the winners from the losers.
 * They winnowed the losers from the winners.
 * 1)  To blow upon or toss about by blowing; to set in motion as with a fan or wings.
 * 2) * 1872 Elliott Coues, Key to North American Birds
 * Gulls average much larger than terns, with stouter build; the feet are larger and more ambulatorial, the wings are shorter and not so thin; the birds winnow the air in a steady course unlike the buoyant dashing flight of their relatives.
 * 1)  To move about with a flapping motion, as of wings; to flutter.
 * 1)  To move about with a flapping motion, as of wings; to flutter.

Usage notes

 * Used with adverb or preposition "down"; see also winnow down.
 * Used with adverbs or prepositions "through", "away", and "out".

Hyponyms

 * winnow down

Translations

 * Belarusian: ве́яць
 * Bikol Central: tahop
 * Breton:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech: rozvívat
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * German:, ,
 * Greek:
 * Ancient Greek: λικμάω, πτίσσω
 * Latin: ventilo


 * Latvian:
 * Maori: kōwhiuwhiu
 * Ngazidja Comorian: pveresa, tsepva
 * Occitan:, vanar, porgar
 * Old Church Slavonic:
 * Cyrillic: вѣꙗти
 * Old East Slavic: вѣꙗти
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:, ,
 * Slovak: viať
 * Spanish: ,
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: ві́яти
 * Vietnamese:


 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:, , ,
 * Occitan: ,


 * Portuguese:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish: inceleyip ayıklamak

Noun

 * 1) That which winnows or which is used in winnowing; a contrivance for fanning or winnowing grain.
 * 2) The act of winnowing

Translations

 * Czech: fukar, čistící stroj
 * Dutch:
 * French:, ,
 * Galician: xoeira, cribo
 * Maori: kōwhiuwhiu


 * Occitan:
 * Portuguese: joeira
 * Russian:
 * Turkish: ,