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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?
27 gen 2015 07:39
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"Winnow" here describes the process of separating useful information from worthless data, or extracting truth from a mass of words.
27 gennaio 2015
Like Randy says.
FYI, it's a reference to the processing of wheat:
http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/winnow
27 gennaio 2015
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Cinese (mandarino), Inglese
Lingua di apprendimento
Inglese
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