[responsivevoice]Winnow[/responsivevoice] [win-oh]
Winnow is a verb, i.e., that it describes an action or an occurrence.
The past tense of the word winnow is winnowed.
Winnow means :
1. A current of air
2. To remove the chaff of a grain
3. To remove people from a group
4. To find something useful or valuable
1. This very night he is going to winnow barley on the threshing-floor. 2. Some guidelines that would help winnow out those not fit to be soldiers.
3. It is difficult to winnow out the truth because they both seem very honest.
Winnow doesn’t have a plural form since it is a verb.
Some of the synonyms for the word winnow are:
sift, separate, scatter, divide, sort out, isolate, find, identify, filter, pick, select, extract, sieve, cull, eliminate, etc.
Quotation:
Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense.
Carl Sagan
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