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n. the act of separating grain from chaff; "the winnowing was done by women" [syn: winnowing , sifting ] v. separate from chaff; "She stood there winnowing grain all day in the field" [syn: fan ] blow on; "The wind was winnowing her hair" treat by exposure ...
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The winnow algorithm is a technique from machine learning for learning a linear classifier from labeled examples. It is very similar to the perceptron algorithm . However, the perceptron algorithm uses an additive weight-update scheme, while Winnow uses ...
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Winnow \Win"now\, v. i. To separate chaff from grain. Winnow not with every wind. --Ecclus. v. 9.
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n. That which winnows or which is used in winnowing; a contrivance for fanning or winnowing grain. vb. 1 (context transitive agriculture English) To subject (granular material, especially food grain) to a current of air separating heavier and lighter components, ...
Usage examples of winnow.
Before Brier could stop her, she had slipped into the crowd and begun to winnow through it, apparently in search of the most articulate sleep-talker.
But the untiring critic within has winnowed, reassorted, and disposed the material I needed.
She took her turn traveling with the hunters to dry the meat, gathered fruits, seeds, nuts, and vegetables with the women, winnowed and parched and ground grains to a superfine texture to make it easier for Creb and Durc to chew.
Elaira shivered in revulsion as a thousand hapless lives were encountered and winnowed aside like the toss of so much dry chaff.
The discorporate mage winnowed his way to the floor through a gloom mazed in smoke, now steeped in growing blue by the east-facing casements.
Numerous as the sins of the damned, they rolled on in a burst of winnowed chaff, to scatter across the stone floor.
Notes winnowed free like leaves ripped on storm winds, blended into cascades that transfixed the heart with regret.
His jewels spat indigo sparks in the gloom, and candles winnowed by spurts of disturbed air threw wavering, ominous shadows.
The illusion of shadows that once masked their shapes had winnowed away to reveal the cunning trap beneath.
All in whose pulses ran Blood that is his at last, From the first stooping man Far in the winnowed past.
How should they know the wind of a new beauty Sweeping my soul had winnowed it with song?
Jhanuud-tir-yed emerged from a conference that had been winnowed down to only the most important figures present.
To mage-sight, the creatures appeared as a mad gyre of sparks, winnowed and whirled by the insatiable hungers that drove them.
Only then could the inbound wraiths be reeled in and contained, each spirit laboriously winnowed separate and Named, then restored to its shattered identity.
Drowning in density, her mind broke away, whirled and winnowed like a spark sucked up a vast flue.