Winnow vs. Minnow

Winnowverb

To subject (granular material, especially food grain) to a current of air separating heavier and lighter components, as grain from chaff.

Winnowverb

To separate, sift, analyze, or test by separating items having different values.

Winnowverb

To blow upon or toss about by blowing; to set in motion as with a fan or wings.

Winnowverb

To move about with a flapping motion, as of wings; to flutter.

Winnownoun

That which winnows or which is used in winnowing; a contrivance for fanning or winnowing grain.

Winnowverb

To separate, and drive off, the chaff from by means of wind; to fan; as, to winnow grain.

Winnowverb

To sift, as for the purpose of separating falsehood from truth; to separate, as bad from good.

Winnowverb

To beat with wings, or as with wings.

Winnowverb

To separate chaff from grain.

Winnownoun

the act of separating grain from chaff;

Winnowverb

separate from chaff;

Winnowverb

blow on;

Winnowverb

treat by exposure to a current of air so that waste matter is eliminated;

Winnowverb

remove by a current of air;

Minnownoun

A small freshwater fish of the carp family, Phoxinus phoxinus.

Minnownoun

Any small fish.

Minnownoun

A relatively small and insignificant person or organization.

Minnowverb

(fishing) To fish for minnows.

Minnowverb

(fishing) To fish (especially for trout) using a minnow as bait.

Minnownoun

A small European fresh-water cyprinoid fish (Phoxinus lævis, formerly Leuciscus phoxinus); sometimes applied also to the young of larger kinds; - called also minim and minny. The name is also applied to several allied American species, of the genera Phoxinus, Notropis, or Minnilus, and Rhinichthys.

Minnownoun

Any of numerous small American cyprinodont fishes of the genus Fundulus, and related genera. They live both in fresh and in salt water. Called also killifish, minny, and mummichog.

Minnownoun

very small European freshwater fish common in gravelly streams

Minnow

Minnow is the common name for a number of species of small freshwater fish, belonging to several genera of the family Cyprinidae. They are also known in Ireland as pinkeens.Smaller fish in the subfamily Leuciscinae are considered by anglers to be minnows.