winnow

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I'll probably winnow that down to about 30 'selects.'6.

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Quick take

the act of separating grain from chaff; "the winnowing was done by women"

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of winnow gathered in one view.

noun

the act of separating grain from chaff; "the winnowing was done by women"

verb

separate the chaff from by using air currents; "She stood there winnowing chaff all day in the field"

verb

blow on; "The wind was winnowing her hair"; "the wind winnowed the grass"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for winnow.

noun

the act of separating grain from chaff; "the winnowing was done by women"

verb

separate the chaff from by using air currents; "She stood there winnowing chaff all day in the field"

verb

blow on; "The wind was winnowing her hair"; "the wind winnowed the grass"

verb

select desirable parts from a group or list; "cull out the interesting letters from the poet's correspondence"; "winnow the finalists from the long list of applicants"

verb

blow away or off with a current of air; "winnow chaff"

Example sentences

I'll probably winnow that down to about 30 'selects.'6.

Experience is a convenient filter applied to winnow the stack of resumes that they receive from bozos.

They meet with business owners, winnow down to the ones who have money and problems with it, and then say that they'll trade solutions to problems for money.

It just increases the pool of candidates from which the VC has to successfully winnow down to the ones he/she thinks have the best odds of going ballistic.

You need to winnow out any opportunity that is even the slightest bit unappealing just to get the flood down to a manageable level.

In order to winnow out the truth in this situation the review panel would need to have someone who knows something about security and vault construction on it.

A large company will receive millions of applications for any position, and needs to winnow that down to a few hundred interview candidates.

It's like they're almost trying to winnow the pool down to developers whose programming ability outperforms their career experience and business sense.

Granted, University degrees have this same problem, but there at least for a proper CS degree there is some heavy math and theory and exams which over a period of four years will tend to winnow the field a bit more.