清理 — meaning in English

English meaning

• winnow verb To blow air through loose material such as grain so the heavier and lighter parts separate.

Senses

清理 is used for these senses in English:

• sort out (transitive) To separate from the remainder of a group; often construed with from.
• weed out (idiomatic, transitive) To remove (unwanted elements) from a group.
• winnow (transitive, figuratively) To separate, sift, analyse, or test by separating items having different values.

winnow — full definition

1. verb To blow air through loose material such as grain so the heavier and lighter parts separate.
2. verb To sort carefully through a group of things, keeping the good and removing the rest.
3. verb To move something by blowing on it, as if fanning it with wings.
4. verb To flap about, the way wings do.

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