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winnow
The act of winnowing
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winnowing
The act of separating chaff from grain.
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straining
To injure or impair by overuse or overexertion; wrench:
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sorting
To make a search or examination of a collection of things:
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separating
To remove from a mixture or combination; isolate.
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searching
1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.4:
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scrutinizing
To scrutinize is to look at something very closely or very carefully.
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screening
Screen is defined as to show, examine or separate.
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refining
To use precise distinctions and subtlety in thought or speech.
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probing
To search; investigate
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investigating
To search into so as to learn the facts; inquire into systematically
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inspecting
To examine critically or carefully; especially, to search out problems or determine condition; to scrutinize.
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filtering
(Computers) To use a filter to block or restrict access to:
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examining
To test by carefully questioning in order to find out the knowledge, skill, qualifications, etc. of (a student, witness, job applicant, etc.)
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combing
To search thoroughly as if raking over an area with a comb.
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canvassing
Canvass is defined as to carefully examine or discuss something or to go through an area to get votes, orders or survey answers.
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bolting
To separate, assort, refine, or purify by other means.
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analyzing
To separate into the constituent parts, for the purpose of an examination of each separately.
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grading
To flatten, level, or smooth a large surface.
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purifying (related)
To rid of impurities:
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cleaning (related)
In a clean manner
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including (related)
Include is defined as to contain, enclose or consider as part of a whole.
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  • The building had been burnt to the ground, and the guardsman began the process of sifting through the ashes.

  • In the mechanical analysis of the soil, after separation of the stones and fine gravel by means of sieves, the remainder of the finer earth is subjected to various processes of sifting and deposition from water with a view of determining the relative proportions of sand, silt and clay present in it.

  • Already, in his eighteenth year, he had devoted himself to the collecting, sifting, testing and arranging of traditions.

  • It has only been possible here to indicate in the briefest way what is involved in the collection and critical sifting of the extant evidence for the text of the Old Testament, Results of how much of the work has been done and how much Criticism.

  • The sifting out of these was proceeding steadily and gradually, and by the end of the century it may be regarded as complete.

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