Window vs Winnow - What's the difference?
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An opening, usually covered by one or more panes of clear glass, to allow light and air from outside to enter a building or vehicle.
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*:A window is an opening in a wall to admit light and air.
*{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=14 An opening, usually covered by glass, in a shop which allows people to view the shop and its products from outside.
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*:There is an hour or two, after the passengers have embarked, which is disquieting and fussy.Passengers wander restlessly about or hurry, with futile energy, from place to place. Pushing men hustle each other at the windows of the purser's office, under pretence of expecting letters or despatching telegrams.
(lb) The shutter, casement, sash with its fittings, or other framework, which closes a window opening.
A period of time when something is available.
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(lb) A rectangular area on a computer terminal or screen containing some kind of user interface, displaying the output of and allowing input for one of a number of simultaneously running computer processes.
A figure formed of lines crossing each other.
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*:till he has windows on his bread and butter
To furnish with windows.
To place at or in a window.
(agriculture) 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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(figuratively) To separate, sift, analyze, or test in this manner.
(literary) To blow upon or toss about by blowing; to set in motion as with a fan or wings.
* 1872 Elliott Coues, Key to North American Birds
(intransitive, literary, dated) To move about with a flapping motion, as of wings; to flutter.
That which winnows or which is used in winnowing; a contrivance for fanning or winnowing grain.
As nouns the difference between window and winnow
is that window is an opening, usually covered by one or more panes of clear glass, to allow light and air from outside to enter a building or vehicle while winnow is that which winnows or which is used in winnowing; a contrivance for fanning or winnowing grain.As verbs the difference between window and winnow
is that window is to furnish with windows while winnow is to subject (granular material, especially food grain) to a current of air separating heavier and lighter components, as grain from chaff.window
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Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=Nanny Broome was looking up at the outer wall. Just under the ceiling there were three lunette windows , heavily barred and blacked out in the normal way by centuries of grime.}}
Coordinate terms
* doorDerived terms
* bay window * bow window * cabinet window * casement window * Catherine-wheel window * compass window * dormer window * electric window * French window, french window * gable window * garret window * go out of the window, go out the window * Jesse window * Judas window, judas window * lancet window * lattice window * launch window * loop-window * low side window * lucarne window * luthern-window * maintenance window * mezzanine window * mullion window * Norman window * ogive window * oriel window * picture window * re-entry window * rose window * sash window * shop window * show window * storm window * therapeutic window * transfer window * transom window * trap window * trellis window * weather window * window bar * window blind * window box * window cleaner * window curtain * window display * window dresser * window-dressing * windowed * window envelope * window frame * windowfront * window gardening * window glass * windowing * window ledge * windowless * window manager * window of opportunity * window pane, windowpane * window plant * Windows * window sash * window screen * window seat * window-shopping * window sill, windowsill * window swallow * window tax * window washerVerb
(en verb)- Wouldst thou be windowed in great Rome and see / Thy master thus with pleach'd arms, bending down / His corrigible neck? — Shakespeare.
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* 1000 English basic wordswinnow
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(en verb)- They winnowed the field to twelve.
- They winnowed the winners from the losers.
- They winnowed the losers from the winners.
- 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.
