"winnowing" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: winnowings [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} winnowing (plural winnowings)
  1. The act of separating chaff from grain. Derived forms: winnowing basket, winnowing fan, winnowing-fan, winnowing-fork, winnowing fork, winnowing machine, winnowing shovel, winnowing-shovel Translations (act of separating chaff from grain): viskaaminen (Finnish), веење (veenje) [neuter] (Macedonian), بوجاری (bojâri) (Persian), wianie [neuter] (Polish), веяние (vejanije) (Russian), cèrniri (Sicilian), tröska (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-winnowing-en-noun-ToDgt5tx

Verb [English]

Head templates: {{head|en|verb form}} winnowing
  1. present participle and gerund of winnow Tags: form-of, gerund, participle, present Form of: winnow
    Sense id: en-winnowing-en-verb-nZi~CP4C Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 15 85 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 17 83

Inflected forms

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