Synonyms of the word

winnow

• v. (transitive, agriculture) To subject (granular material, especially food grain) to a current of air separating…
• v. (transitive, figuratively) To separate, sift, analyze, or test in this manner.
• v. (transitive, literary) To blow upon or toss about by blowing; to set in motion as with a fan or wings.
• v. (intransitive, literary, dated) To move about with a flapping motion, as of wings; to flutter.
• n. That which winnows or which is used in winnowing; a contrivance for fanning or winnowing grain.

choose

• v. To pick; to make the choice of; to select.
• v. To elect.
• v. To decide to act in a certain way.
• v. To wish; to desire; to prefer.
• conj. (mathematics) The binomial coefficient of the previous and following number.
• n. (dialectal or obsolete) The act of choosing; selection.
• n. (dialectal or obsolete) The power, right, or privilege of choosing; election.
• n. (dialectal or obsolete) Scope for choice.

fan

• n. A hand-held device consisting of concertinaed material, or slats of material, gathered together at one…
• n. An electrical or mechanical device for moving air, used for cooling people, machinery, etc.
• n. Anything resembling a hand-held fan in shape, e.g., a peacock’s tail.
• n. An instrument for winnowing grain, by moving which the grain is tossed and agitated, and the chaff is…
• n. A small vane or sail, used to keep the large sails of a smock windmill always in the direction of the…
• n. (mathematics) A section of a tree having a finite number of branches.
• v. (transitive) To blow air on (something) by means of a fan (hand-held, mechanical or electrical) or otherwise.
• v. (transitive) To slap (a behind, especially).
• v. (intransitive, usually to fan out) To move or spread in multiple directions from one point, in the shape…
• v. a maneuver done by flicking the top rear of an old style gun.
• n. An admirer or aficionado, especially of a sport or performer; someone who is fond of something or someone.

remove

• v. (transitive) To move something from one place to another, especially to take away.
• v. (transitive) To murder.
• v. (cricket, transitive) To dismiss a batsman.
• v. (transitive) To discard, set aside, especially something abstract (a thought, feeling, etc.).
• v. (intransitive, now rare) To depart, leave.
• v. (intransitive) To change one's residence; to move.
• v. To dismiss or discharge from office.
• n. The act of removing something.
• n. (archaic) Removing a dish at a meal in order to replace it with the next course, a dish thus replaced,…
• n. (Britain) (at some public schools) A division of the school, especially the form prior to last.
• n. A step or gradation (as in the phrase "at one remove").
• n. Distance in time or space; interval.
• n. (dated) The transfer of one's home or business to another place; a move.
• n. The act of resetting a horse's shoe.

select

• adj. Privileged, specially selected.
• adj. Of high quality; top-notch.
• v. To choose one or more elements of a set, especially a set of options.
• v. (databases) To obtain a set of data from a database using a query.

separation

• n. The act of disuniting two or more things, or the condition of being separated.
• n. The place at which a division occurs.
• n. An interval, gap or space that separates things.
• n. (law) An agreement terminating a relationship between husband and wife, but short of a divorce.
• n. (military) Departure from active duty, while not necessarily leaving the service entirely.

sieve

• n. A device to separate, in a granular material, larger particles from smaller ones, or to separate solid…
• n. A process, physical or abstract, that arrives at a final result by filtering out unwanted pieces of input…
• n. (obsolete) A kind of coarse basket.
• n. (category theory) A collection of morphisms in a category whose codomain is a certain fixed object of…
• v. To strain, sift or sort using a sieve.
• v. (sports) To concede; let in.

sift

• v. To sieve or strain (something).
• v. To separate or scatter (things) as if by sieving.
• v. To examine (something) carefully.

sifting

• v. present participle of sift.
• n. The act by which something is sifted.

strain

• n. (obsolete) Treasure.
• n. (obsolete) The blood-vessel in the yolk of an egg.
• n. (archaic) Race; lineage, pedigree.
• n. Hereditary character, quality, or disposition.
• n. A tendency or disposition.
• n. (literary) Any sustained note or movement; a song; a distinct portion of an ode or other poem; also, the…
• n. (biology) A particular breed or race of animal, microbe etc.
• n. (music) A portion of music divided off by a double bar; a complete musical period or sentence; a movement,…
• n. (rare) A kind or sort (of person etc.).
• v. (obsolete) To beget, generate (of light), engender, copulate (both of animals and humans), lie with, be…
• v. (obsolete) To hold tightly, to clasp.
• v. To apply a force or forces to by stretching out.
• v. To damage by drawing, stretching, or the exertion of force.
• v. To act upon, in any way, so as to cause change of form or volume, as when bending a beam.
• v. To exert or struggle (to do something), especially to stretch (one's senses, faculties etc.) beyond what…
• v. To stretch beyond its proper limit; to do violence to, in terms of intent or meaning.
• v. (transitive) To separate solid from liquid by passing through a strainer or colander.
• v. (intransitive) To percolate; to be filtered.
• v. To make uneasy or unnatural; to produce with apparent effort; to force; to constrain.
• v. To urge with importunity; to press.
• n. The act of straining, or the state of being strained.
• n. A violent effort; an excessive and hurtful exertion or tension, as of the muscles.
• n. An injury resulting from violent effort; a sprain.
• n. (uncountable, engineering) A dimensionless measure of object deformation either referring to engineering…
• n. (obsolete) The track of a deer.

take

• v. (transitive) To get into one's hands, possession, or control, with or without force.
• v. (transitive) To receive or accept (something) (especially something given or bestowed, awarded, etc).
• v. (transitive) To remove.
• v. (transitive) To have sex with.
• v. (transitive) To defeat (someone or something) in a fight.
• v. (transitive) To grasp or grip.
• v. (transitive) To select or choose; to pick.
• v. (transitive) To adopt (select) as one's own.
• v. (transitive) To carry or lead (something or someone).
• v. (transitive) To use as a means of transportation.
• v. (obsolete) To visit; to include in a course of travel.
• v. (transitive) To obtain for use by payment or lease.
• v. (transitive) To consume.
• v. (transitive) To experience, undergo, or endure.
• v. (transitive) To cause to change to a specified state or condition.
• v. (transitive) To regard in a specified way.
• v. (transitive) To conclude or form (a decision or an opinion) in the mind.
• v. (transitive) To understand (especially in a specified way).
• v. (transitive) To accept or be given (rightly or wrongly); assume (especially as if by right).
• v. (transitive) To believe, to accept the statements of.
• v. (transitive) To assume or suppose; to reckon; to regard or consider.
• v. (transitive) To draw, derive, or deduce (a meaning from something).
• v. (transitive) To derive (as a title); to obtain from a source.
• v. (transitive) To catch or contract (an illness, etc).
• v. (transitive) To come upon or catch (in a particular state or situation).
• v. (transitive) To captivate or charm; to gain or secure the interest or affection of.
• v. (transitive, of cloth, paper, etc) To absorb or be impregnated by (dye, ink, etc); to be susceptible to…
• v. (transitive, of a ship) To let in (water).
• v. (transitive) To require.
• v. (transitive) To proceed to fill.
• v. (transitive) To fill, to use up (time or space).
• v. (transitive) To avail oneself of.
• v. (transitive) To perform, to do.
• v. (transitive) To assume or perform (a form or role).
• v. (transitive) To bind oneself by.
• v. (transitive) To move into.
• v. (transitive) To go into, through, or along.
• v. (transitive) To have or take recourse to.
• v. (transitive) To ascertain or determine by measurement, examination or inquiry.
• v. (transitive) To write down; to get in, or as if in, writing.
• v. (transitive) To make (a photograph, film, or other reproduction of something).
• v. (transitive, dated) To take a picture, photograph, etc of (a person, scene, etc).
• v. (transitive) To obtain money from, especially by swindling.
• v. (transitive, now chiefly by enrolling in a class or course) To apply oneself to the study of.
• v. (transitive) To deal with.
• v. (transitive) To consider in a particular way, or to consider as an example.
• v. (transitive, baseball) To decline to swing at (a pitched ball); to refrain from hitting at, and allow…
• v. (transitive, grammar) To have an be used with (a certain grammatical form, etc).
• v. (intransitive) To get or accept (something) into one's possession.
• v. (intransitive) To engage, take hold or have effect.
• v. (intransitive) To become; to be affected in a specified way.
• v. (intransitive, possibly dated) To be able to be accurately or beautifully photographed.
• v. (intransitive, dialectal, proscribed) An intensifier.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To deliver, give (something) to (someone).
• v. (transitive, obsolete outside dialects and slang) To give or deliver (a blow, to someone); to strike or…
• n. The or an act of taking.
• n. Something that is taken; a haul.
• n. An interpretation or view, opinion or assessment; perspective.
• n. An approach, a (distinct) treatment.
• n. (film) A scene recorded (filmed) at one time, without an interruption or break; a recording of such a…
• n. (music) A recording of a musical performance made during an uninterrupted single recording period.
• n. A visible (facial) response to something, especially something unexpected; a facial gesture in response…
• n. (medicine) An instance of successful inoculation/vaccination.
• n. (rugby, cricket) A catch of the ball (in cricket, especially one by the wicket-keeper).
• n. (printing) The quantity of copy given to a compositor at one time.

winnowing

• v. present participle of winnow.
• n. The act of separating chaff from grain.

withdraw

• v. (transitive) To pull (something) back, aside, or away.
• v. (transitive) To take back (a comment, etc).
• v. (transitive) To remove, to stop providing (one's support, etc).
• v. (transitive) To extract (money from an account).
• v. (intransitive) To retreat.
• v. (intransitive) To be in withdrawal from an addictive drug etc.