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What's the meaning of winnow ? I was trying to winnow a bit of American news from the colum of the "Morning Post"? What's the meaning of winnow? What's the meaning of this sentence?
Jan 27, 2015 7:39 AM
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"Winnow" here describes the process of separating useful information from worthless data, or extracting truth from a mass of words.
January 27, 2015
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Like Randy says. FYI, it's a reference to the processing of wheat:
http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/winnow
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