winnow

英 [ˈwɪnəʊ]

美 [ˈwɪnoʊ]

v. 簸，扬，风选(以去掉谷壳)

现在分词：winnowing　过去分词：winnowed　第三人称单数：winnows　过去式：winnowed　

GRE

BNC.37778 / COCA.21960

短语动词

winnow out
1. 筛除；淘汰

短语用例

winnow sb/sth out (of sth)

筛选；遴选；选拔
to remove people or things from a group so that only the best ones are left

牛津词典

verb

簸，扬，风选（以去掉谷壳）
to blow air through grain in order to remove its outer covering (called the chaff )

柯林斯词典

VERB 筛选;遴选
If youwinnowa group of things or people, you reduce its size by separating the ones that are useful or relevant from the ones that are not.
1. Administration officials have winnowed the list of candidates to three.
  行政官员将候选名单筛减至3人。

英英释义

noun

the act of separating grain from chaff
1. the winnowing was done by women
Synonym:winnowingsifting

verb

blow away or off with a current of air
1. winnow chaff
select desirable parts from a group or list
1. cull out the interesting letters from the poet's correspondence
2. winnow the finalists from the long list of applicants
Synonym:cull out
separate the chaff from by using air currents
1. She stood there winnowing chaff all day in the field
Synonym:fan
blow on
1. The wind was winnowing her hair
2. the wind winnowed the grass

双语例句

The Winnow algorithm used in our system is described in detail and a set of experiments is carried out to verify its effect.
文中详细描述了在我们的过滤系统中所使用的Winnow算法以及所进行的一系列证实其有效性的实验。
Winnow the husks from the corn
用风选法除去谷物的壳
Due to the huge gap between the quota and actual applications, immigration officers had to hold a random drawing to winnow down the applications.
由于配额和实际申请之间的巨大差距，移民局官员只得采用随机抽取的方法来筛选众多的申请。
Yahoo did not confirm its use, but reports indicate that its high-profile leader, Marissa Mayer, is relying on the stack ratings model to winnow out employees and fire them& the "yank" part of the equation.
虽然雅虎并没有确认这一点，但大量报道显示，这家公司行事高调的掌门人玛丽莎•梅耶尔正在依靠堆垛式评级模型筛除、解雇一些员工&这一评估方程式的“封杀”部分。
In this paper, we describe the regularized Winnow algorithm for Chinese named entity recognition. The experiment results for a large corpus are presented.
本文针对中文的命名实体识别问题，描述了正则化Winnow算法，并给出了基于较大规模语料库的实验结果。
Winnow truth from falsehood Does anybody know how to identify the new ID card? Reply in Chinese is also OK! Thanks!
是否有人知道如何鉴别第二代身份证真伪，可以用中文，谢谢！
A Winnow Linear Classifier and Its Application in TREC 2003 Novelty
一种Winnow线性分类器及其在TRECNovelty任务中的应用
Both of the algorithms need appropriate feature selection. When two words around an entity were selected, the performance of the both algorithms got the peak. The average weighted F-Score of Winnow and SVM algorithms were 73.08% and 73.27% separately.
两种算法都进行适当的特征选择，当选择每个实体的左右两个词为特征时，达到最好的抽取效果，Winnow和SVM算法的加权平均F-Score分别为73.08%和73.27%。
The new X prize is designed to winnow the genetic wheat from the chaff.
新设立的这个X奖是为了在茫茫基因大漠中“披沙拣金”。
Administration officials have winnowed the list of candidates to three.
行政官员将候选名单筛减至3人。