Winnower vs Winnow - What's the difference?
winnower | winnow |
(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.
Winnow is a derived term of winnower.
As nouns the difference between winnower and winnow
is that winnower is a person who winnows while winnow is that which winnows or which is used in winnowing; a contrivance for fanning or winnowing grain.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.winnow
English
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.
