Winnow
21Winnow (algorithm) — The winnow algorithm [Littlestone, N. (1988) Learning Quickly When Irrelevant Attributes About: A New Linear threshold Algorithm Machine Learning 285 318(2)] is a technique from machine learning. It is closely related to the Perceptron, but it… …
22winnow out — PHRASAL VERB If you winnow out part of a group of things or people, you identify the part that is not useful or relevant and the part that is. [WRITTEN] [V P n (not pron)] The committee will need to winnow out the nonsense and produce more… …
23winnow down — phrasal verb [transitive] Word forms winnow down : present tense I/you/we/they winnow down he/she/it winnows down present participle winnowing down past tense winnowed down past participle winnowed down to reduce the size of a group of people or… …
24winnow out — phrasal verb [transitive] Word forms winnow out : present tense I/you/we/they winnow out he/she/it winnows out present participle winnowing out past tense winnowed out past participle winnowed out to separate the useful or important people or… …
25winnow — 1. verb /ˈwɪn.no/ a) To subject (granular material, especially food grain) to a current of air separating heavier and lighter components, as grain from chaff. They winnowed the field to twelve. b) To separate, sift, analyze, or test i …
26Winnow — Corn was winnowed, 1) By being thrown up by a shovel against the wind. As a rule this was done in the evening or during the night, when the west wind from the sea was blowing, which was a moderate breeze and fitted for the purpose. The… …
27winnow — Synonyms and related words: aerate, air, air out, air condition, air cool, airify, analyze, appraise, assess, bolt, catalog, categorize, choose out, clarifier, clarify, class, classify, clear, colander, comb, contradistinguish, cordon, cordon off …
28winnow — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. t. select, cull, sift, separate, glean, pick; ventilate, fan. See choice, cleanness. II (Roget s IV) v. Syn. scatter, extract, sieve, thresh; see separate 2 , sift 2 . III (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) v …
29winnow — win·now || wɪnəʊ n. act of winnowing; device for winnowing grain v. separate the grain from the chaff; separate the good from the bad; blow through; scatter; blow over; sift through, select the desirable parts …
30winnow — verb 1》 blow air through (grain) in order to remove the chaff. ↘remove (chaff) from grain. 2》 examine in order to identify the most valuable or useful elements. ↘identify (a valuable or useful element). 3》 literary (of the wind) blow. 4》… …
