winnow

(Inglés)

Verb

1. (transitive) To subject (granular material, especially food grain) to a current of air separating heavier and lighter components, as grain from chaff.
2. (figuratively, transitive) To separate, sift, analyse, or test by separating items having different values.
3. (literary, transitive) To blow upon or toss about by blowing; to set in motion as with a fan or wings.
4. (dated, intransitive, literary) To move about with a flapping motion, as of wings; to flutter.

Noun

1. That which winnows or which is used in winnowing; a contrivance for fanning or winnowing grain.
2. The act of winnowing

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/ˈwɪnoʊ/

Etimología (Inglés)

Heredado de inglés medio: winewen

Heredado de inglés antiguo: windwian

Cognado con alto alemán medio: winden

Cognado con islandés: vinsa

Cognado con latín: vannus

In summary

From Middle English winewen, windewen, windwen, from Old English windwian (“to winnow, fan, ventilate”), from Proto-West Germanic *windwōn, from Proto-Germanic *windwōną, *winþijaną (“to throw about, winnow”), from Proto-Indo-European *wē- (“to winnow, thresh”). Cognate with Middle High German winden (“to winnow”), Icelandic vinsa (“to pick out, weed”), Latin vannus (“a winnowing basket”). See fan, van.

Conceptos

aventar

ahechar

abalear

ventear

seleccionar

bieldar

abanicar

apalear

cerner

desechar

orear

beldar

hacer ventilar

airear

sifting

cribar

examinar

limpiar

separar

ventilar

Sinónimos

sift

fan

screen

cull

strain

sieve

winnowing

sifting

shake

🫨

sift through

prefer

analyze

select

choose

ventilate

blow

cull out

elect

sort

pick up

take apart

tear down

thresh

throw

toss

vet

whiff

wind

make fly

pour off

sieve out

strain off

blow apart

screening

pour out slowly

throw in air

repound

analyse

anatomize

beckon

blast

breathe

breeze

canvass

demount

examine

flap

flutter

parse

riddle

Traducciones

vanner

mondare

van

trier

yaba

worfeln

wannen

εξετάζω

ventilare

au vent

vagliare

εξωνυχίζω

πνοή ανέμου

cribler

λιχνίζω