Sieve vs. Winnow — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Sieve and Winnow
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Sieve
A sieve, fine mesh strainer, or sift, is a device for separating wanted elements from unwanted material or for characterizing the particle size distribution of a sample, using a screen such as a woven mesh or net or perforated sheet material. The word "sift" derives from "sieve".
Winnow
To separate the chaff from (grain) by means of a current of air.
Sieve
A utensil of wire mesh or closely perforated metal or plastic, used for straining, sifting, ricing, or puréeing.
Winnow
To blow (chaff) off or away.
Sieve
To pass through a sieve.
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Winnow
To examine closely in order to separate the good from the bad; sift
The judges winnowed a thousand essays down to six finalists.
Sieve
To use a sieve; sift.
Winnow
To separate or get rid of (an undesirable part); eliminate
Winnowing out the errors in logic.
Sieve
A device with a mesh bottom to separate, in a granular material, larger particles from smaller ones, or to separate solid objects from a liquid.
Use the sieve to get the pasta from the water.
Winnow
To sort or select (a desirable part); extract
The investigators winnowed the facts from the testimony.
Sieve
A process, physical or abstract, that arrives at a final result by filtering out unwanted pieces of input from a larger starting set of input.
Given a list of consecutive numbers starting at 1, the Sieve of Eratosthenes algorithm will find all of the prime numbers.
Winnow
To blow on; fan
A breeze winnowing the tall grass.
Sieve
(obsolete) A kind of coarse basket.
Winnow
To separate grain from chaff.
Sieve
(colloquial) A person, or their mind, that cannot remember things or is unable to keep secrets.
Winnow
To separate the good from the bad.
Sieve
An intern who lets too many non-serious cases into the emergency room.
Winnow
A device for winnowing grain.
Sieve
(category theory) A collection of morphisms in a category whose codomain is a certain fixed object of that category, which collection is closed under precomposition by any morphism in the category.
Winnow
An act of winnowing.
Sieve
To strain, sift or sort using a sieve.
Winnow
To subject (granular material, especially food grain) to a current of air separating heavier and lighter components, as grain from chaff.
Sieve
(sports) To concede; let in
Winnow
To separate, sift, analyse, or test by separating items having different values.
They winnowed the field to twelve.
They winnowed the winners from the losers.
They winnowed the losers from the winners.
Sieve
A utensil for separating the finer and coarser parts of a pulverized or granulated substance from each other. It consist of a vessel, usually shallow, with the bottom perforated, or made of hair, wire, or the like, woven in meshes.
Winnow
To blow upon or toss about by blowing; to set in motion as with a fan or wings.
Sieve
A kind of coarse basket.
Winnow
To move about with a flapping motion, as of wings; to flutter.
Sieve
A strainer for separating lumps from powdered material or grading particles
Winnow
That which winnows or which is used in winnowing; a contrivance for fanning or winnowing grain.
Sieve
Examine in order to test suitability;
Screen these samples
Screen the job applicants
Winnow
The act of winnowing
Sieve
Check and sort carefully;
Sift the information
Winnow
To separate, and drive off, the chaff from by means of wind; to fan; as, to winnow grain.
Ho winnoweth barley to-night in the threshing floor.
Sieve
Separate by passing through a sieve or other straining device to separate out coarser elements;
Sift the flour
Winnow
To sift, as for the purpose of separating falsehood from truth; to separate, as bad from good.
Winnow well this thought, and you shall findThis light as chaff that flies before the wind.
Sieve
Distinguish and separate out;
Sift through the job candidates
Winnow
To beat with wings, or as with wings.
Now on the polar winds; then with quick fanWinnows the buxom air.
Winnow
To separate chaff from grain.
Winnow not with every wind.
Winnow
The act of separating grain from chaff;
The winnowing was done by women
Winnow
Separate from chaff;
She stood there winnowing grain all day in the field
Winnow
Blow on;
The wind was winnowing her hair
Winnow
Treat by exposure to a current of air so that waste matter is eliminated;
Winnow grain
Winnow
Remove by a current of air;
Winnow chaff
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