Winnow vs Unwinnowed - What's the difference?
winnow | unwinnowed |
(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.
Not winnowed.
*{{quote-book, year=1857, author=S. H. Hammond, title=Wild Northern Scenes, chapter=, edition=
, passage=While stooping over to fill his fan with unwinnowed grain, the buck, taking advantage of his position, came like a catapult against him, and sent him like a ball from a Paixhan gun, head foremost into the chaff. }}
*{{quote-book, year=1907, author=William J. Dawson, title=The Quest of the Simple Life, chapter=, edition=
, passage=A few miles away the loud Niagara of London runs swift, and the air vibrates with all the tumult of the strenuous life of man; but here the air is dead, unwinnowed by any clamorous wind, unshaken by any planetary motion. }}
As a verb winnow
is to subject (granular material, especially food grain) to a current of air separating heavier and lighter components, as grain from chaff.As a noun winnow
is that which winnows or which is used in winnowing; a contrivance for fanning or winnowing grain.As an adjective unwinnowed is
not winnowed.winnow
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Verb
(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.
Usage notes
* Used with adverb or preposition "down"; see also winnow down. * Used with adverbs or prepositions "through", "away", and "out".Derived terms
* winnow down * winnower * winnowing basket * winnowing fan * winnowing machine * winnow sheet * winnow grain from chaff * winnow the wheat from the chaffNoun
(en noun)References
* * *unwinnowed
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