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noun tʃaftʃɑːftʃæf mass noun1The husks of corn or other seed separated by winnowing or threshing. Example sentencesExamples - In the process of making fine mealie-meal, Maize that is washed clean is put aside, while coarse Bran chaff is separated out.
- A person in clean moccasins then ‘danced the rice’ treading on it to remove the hull and then tossing it into the air to winnow the chaff.
- They processed the grain there using a threshing sled to separate the stalks or chaff from the grain.
- The mixture of grain, chaff and husks is placed on a flat or shallow basket and held shoulder high.
- To keep the radiator from plugging up with seeds and chaff, we wrapped it and the grill with window screen.
- The chaff is winnowed out by the activities of millions of independent actions.
- The village girls spit out the chaff as they winnow with wooden forks and sing about their dowry jewels.
- Then the chaff - the husks and debris - was ‘winnowed’ or blown off the heavier grain with the aid of the wind or with fans.
- He would sometime be given a job bagging and clearing chaff on a threshing day.
- Green stems and leaves add moisture to the threshed grain and prevent clean separation of the grain and chaff.
- If there are weed seeds, weed debris, chaff or non-grain material, clean the grain before putting it into the bins.
- They modified farm equipment designed to separate chaff from wheat and used it to remove paper labels from the mix.
- Spikes were threshed and florets (hereafter called seeds) separated from chaff by sieving and forced-air separation.
- For example, look at something like a winnowing machine which separates the corn from the chaff.
- The seeds sprinkle out while the chaff and larger debris remain in the cup and can be discarded.
Synonyms husks, hulls, bran, pods, seed cases, shells, capsules, sheaths North American shucks - 1.1 Chopped hay and straw used as fodder.
Example sentencesExamples - He always had bran, pollard, hay and chaff on hand and would pay the highest prices for dairy produce.
- I think the real danger if you take them off a balancer or trace element supplement and just feed them chaff or local stuff then they can become short of breath.
- At its side you could see a cow munching on a pile of chaff.
- It is said that only in the No.1 Food Store can people buy chaff.
- They each get through six buckets of chaff, hay, bran and molasses a day, plus all the mints, carrots and apples they are given by grateful landlords and landladies on their delivery round.
2Worthless things; rubbish. he hopes to separate scientifically supported claims from pseudoscientific chaff Example sentencesExamples - In this case, the presiding judge cut through the legal chaff and ruled that the request for information was reasonable.
- Words, words, words: we have so many words, and they are chaff, but where is THE WORD that in the beginning was God and was with God?
- Kylie ruled… but Hear'Say and Westlife's manufactured chaff made the charts less relevant than ever.
- Yes, there's still a lot of chaff out there, and it's the reader's responsibility to sift and choose.
- These are no doubt important and significant issues that need to be considered, but let us cast them aside as so much chaff.
- The Fraser Inquiry will ascribe blame for technical mishaps and bureaucratic incompetence, but history will judge all that mere chaff.
- The irony is that, in editing, one has to lie to tell the truth, otherwise the audience would die of boredom or the truth would be smothered under a mountain of chaff.
- They're the reason we have 98% chaff on the shelves.
- I want to tell my children and my grandchildren that their parents and grandparents were neither super-men nor human chaff.
- It takes an incisive professional to cut through all this self-indulgent chaff to bring you the priceless kernel of truth, so here goes…
- One name, however, stands out among the free-agent chaff - Derian Hatcher, defenseman for the Dallas Stars.
- German, rather bravely, had agreed to defend George Galloway against somebody who was sufficiently well informed to cut through his evasive chaff, and came out of the experience somewhat dazed and confused.
- His article crosses the line from constructive and thoughtful criticism to contrarian polemic, the net effect being a dilution of truly worthwhile lessons at the expense of extraneous chaff.
- Which is a shame because strip away the chaff and you will find an interesting, diverse artist who has produced an impressive body of work.
- Learn to listen out for instinct, to separate it from the usual mental chaff, that bit of info, chant, incantation, poem that downloads itself into yer head aint easy.
- So, today, I had a thunderstruck few minutes when I entered the bookshop, comprehending just how much chaff has been created by Dan Brown's bloody book.
- Mohamed searches out quality (most of his list costs north of £20 a bottle), but there is simply no chaff.
- However, there's a hell of a lot of chaff to go through as well.
- I'm one of you, folks - I've been there, but you must truly be careful and expose chaff where it exists.
- Most morality and the things which provoke the ‘Angry of Tunbridge Wells’ letters are all just chaff when compared to the real things which have been sorted out and the things which do need sorting out in the world.
Synonyms rubbish, refuse, waste, garbage, litter, discarded matter, debris, detritus, scrap, dross flotsam and jetsam, lumber sweepings, leavings, leftovers, remains, scraps, dregs, offscourings, odds and ends muck North American trash Australian/New Zealand mullock informal dreck, junk British informal grot, gash Archaeology debitage rare draff, raff, raffle, cultch, orts 3Strips of metal foil released in the air to obstruct radar detection. Example sentencesExamples - He put two frag grenades, two smoke grenades and two chaff grenades into their respective compartments.
- The countermeasures system includes a pilot illumination radar warning receiver, chaff and infrared decoy dispensers, and an active multi-mode jammer located in the wingtip pods.
- For operational roles, the aircraft is fitted with a radar warning receiver, chaff and flares dispensers, and active electronic countermeasures.
- The radar works well, Hayes said, through multifaceted conditions, including inconsistent terrain, heavy rain, migrating birds, glaciers and chaff.
- M - 1 Tank Your first order when fighting this thing is to jam its sensors with a chaff grenade.
- Initially, we flew pure chaff missions where instead of bombs we were loaded with boxes and boxes of chaff that we dumped while circling over the target before the bombers got there.
- It holds 160 chaff / flare packages, up to five times more than conventional dispensers.
- The electronic warfare systems include a radar warning receiver and automatic or manually operated chaff and flare dispensers.
- Navy procedures for limiting the use of essential training equipment such as chaff, flares, and radar-warning gear to only fleet assigned aircraft and those working up for sea duty was also identified as a problem.
- The ship is equipped with four chaff launch systems and the Ajanta radar interceptor developed by Bharat Electronics Limited of Bangalore.
- Radar sensitive chaff (mica and silica) in the chemical mixture permits tracking of chemical agent dispersal patterns in the atmosphere.
- The one in the D seat handles the airplane's defensive systems, responsible for electronic counter-jamming of enemy radars trying to lock onto the bomber and punching chaff or flares if an enemy gets a shot off at them.
- Each launcher has six launch tubes and is capable of firing illuminating rounds or chaff rounds to counter hostile radars and radar guided missiles.
- Various antennas related to the mission sprouted from the fuselage while four wing pylons held other related equipment such as chaff dispensers and noise jammers.
- ‘We monitor and maintain electrical systems, ejection seats, launch and recovery systems and load chaff,’ CPL Rock said.
- DAG will include missile warning system, radar warning receiver, towed radar decoy and chaff and flare dispensers.
- Initially the second Exocet's radar locked onto the Invincible; however, large amounts of chaff caused it to break lock.
- The countermeasures system can dispense chaff cartridges and infrared flares and the POET and GEN-X active expendable decoys.
- To further thwart engagement, a LACM could employ relatively simple countermeasures such as chaff and decoys.
- A reduced Doppler shift also enhances the effectiveness of chaff and decoys, which should allow the aircraft to break lock and hide in ground clutter.
Phrases separate (or sort) the wheat from the chaff Distinguish valuable people or things from worthless ones. Example sentencesExamples - The market will have to sort the wheat from the chaff.
- There's more of everything, a plethora of competing versions vying for the user's attention and, to cap it all, the web is so jam-packed with information that it's getting harder by the day to sort the wheat from the chaff.
- The problem comes in sorting the wheat from the chaff, and you or I can only try to assess the performance of our local authority planning department.
- Doing this will sort the wheat from the chaff and will save time, effort and tears.
- It took over an hour to sort the wheat from the chaff - and that was just going through the subject lines to pick out the usual suspects.
- The betting market promises to be the best guide to sorting the wheat from the chaff in the first two-year-old race of the season, the Ballyhane Stud Brocklesby Stakes.
- I sat down one no-doubt-procrastinatory afternoon and sorted the wheat from the chaff.
- Certainly a ringtone reduces pop songs down to their barest essentials and in doing so sorts the wheat from the chaff.
- There are lots of tributes out there and the crowds soon learn to sort the wheat from the chaff.
- Perhaps that might help to sort the wheat from the chaff.
Origin Old English cæf, ceaf, probably from a Germanic base meaning 'gnaw'; related to Dutch kaf, also to chafer. Rhymes barf, behalf, calf, coif, giraffe, Graf, graph, half, laugh, scarf, scrum half, staff, strafe, wing half noun tʃaftʃɑːftʃæf mass nounLight-hearted joking; banter. we used to come in for a fair amount of ribbing and good-natured chaff Example sentencesExamples - The air was full of good-natured chaff and badinage between persons who had never seen each other before and never expected to again.
- Every one had a hearty welcome for my people, and some good-natured chaff about their having "buried themselves" so long.
- Made us roar in the mess, though I've had to put up with a certain amount of good-natured chaff about having a father who reads the Guardian, let alone writes for it!
Synonyms banter, repartee, raillery, ripostes, sallies, quips, wisecracks, crosstalk, wordplay, teasing, ragging badinage, witty conversation, witty remarks, witticism(s), joking, jesting, jocularity, drollery French bons mots informal kidding, kidology, ribbing, joshing, wisecracking rare persiflage
verb tʃaftʃɑːftʃæf [with object]Tease. the pleasures of drinking and betting and chaffing your mates Example sentencesExamples - Manda had a feeling he enjoyed chaffing Michael and making his life miserable, but she had no idea why.
- It seemed the whole city was en fate as rival supporters with all manner of blue-and-white manifestations chaffed one another good-humoredly and cheered loudly.
- Still they laughed and called to each other at the joy of returning home, and chaffed one another in loud voices.
- But if you opened his inside (…), you cannot imagine how full he is, good companions, of sobriety… [He] spends his life in chaffing and making game of his fellow-men.
Synonyms tease, make fun of, poke fun at, rag, mock, laugh at, guy deride, ridicule, scoff at, jeer at, jibe at taunt, bait, goad, pick on informal take the mickey out of, send up, rib, josh, kid, wind up, have on, pull someone's leg, make a monkey out of North American informal goof on, rag on, put on, pull someone's chain, razz, fun, shuck Australian/New Zealand informal poke mullock at, poke borak at, sling off at, chiack British vulgar slang take the piss out of archaic make sport of, twit, quiz, smoke, flout at, rally
Origin Early 19th century: perhaps from chafe. nounCHaftʃæf 1The husks of corn or other seed separated by winnowing or threshing. Example sentencesExamples - The village girls spit out the chaff as they winnow with wooden forks and sing about their dowry jewels.
- They modified farm equipment designed to separate chaff from wheat and used it to remove paper labels from the mix.
- Green stems and leaves add moisture to the threshed grain and prevent clean separation of the grain and chaff.
- To keep the radiator from plugging up with seeds and chaff, we wrapped it and the grill with window screen.
- The chaff is winnowed out by the activities of millions of independent actions.
- In the process of making fine mealie-meal, Maize that is washed clean is put aside, while coarse Bran chaff is separated out.
- He would sometime be given a job bagging and clearing chaff on a threshing day.
- The mixture of grain, chaff and husks is placed on a flat or shallow basket and held shoulder high.
- Spikes were threshed and florets (hereafter called seeds) separated from chaff by sieving and forced-air separation.
- Then the chaff - the husks and debris - was ‘winnowed’ or blown off the heavier grain with the aid of the wind or with fans.
- They processed the grain there using a threshing sled to separate the stalks or chaff from the grain.
- The seeds sprinkle out while the chaff and larger debris remain in the cup and can be discarded.
- If there are weed seeds, weed debris, chaff or non-grain material, clean the grain before putting it into the bins.
- For example, look at something like a winnowing machine which separates the corn from the chaff.
- A person in clean moccasins then ‘danced the rice’ treading on it to remove the hull and then tossing it into the air to winnow the chaff.
Synonyms husks, hulls, bran, pods, seed cases, shells, capsules, sheaths - 1.1 Chopped hay and straw used as fodder.
Example sentencesExamples - At its side you could see a cow munching on a pile of chaff.
- They each get through six buckets of chaff, hay, bran and molasses a day, plus all the mints, carrots and apples they are given by grateful landlords and landladies on their delivery round.
- He always had bran, pollard, hay and chaff on hand and would pay the highest prices for dairy produce.
- It is said that only in the No.1 Food Store can people buy chaff.
- I think the real danger if you take them off a balancer or trace element supplement and just feed them chaff or local stuff then they can become short of breath.
- 1.2 Worthless things; trash.
Example sentencesExamples - Yes, there's still a lot of chaff out there, and it's the reader's responsibility to sift and choose.
- German, rather bravely, had agreed to defend George Galloway against somebody who was sufficiently well informed to cut through his evasive chaff, and came out of the experience somewhat dazed and confused.
- Most morality and the things which provoke the ‘Angry of Tunbridge Wells’ letters are all just chaff when compared to the real things which have been sorted out and the things which do need sorting out in the world.
- Mohamed searches out quality (most of his list costs north of £20 a bottle), but there is simply no chaff.
- These are no doubt important and significant issues that need to be considered, but let us cast them aside as so much chaff.
- I'm one of you, folks - I've been there, but you must truly be careful and expose chaff where it exists.
- His article crosses the line from constructive and thoughtful criticism to contrarian polemic, the net effect being a dilution of truly worthwhile lessons at the expense of extraneous chaff.
- Kylie ruled… but Hear'Say and Westlife's manufactured chaff made the charts less relevant than ever.
- One name, however, stands out among the free-agent chaff - Derian Hatcher, defenseman for the Dallas Stars.
- They're the reason we have 98% chaff on the shelves.
- The Fraser Inquiry will ascribe blame for technical mishaps and bureaucratic incompetence, but history will judge all that mere chaff.
- Which is a shame because strip away the chaff and you will find an interesting, diverse artist who has produced an impressive body of work.
- In this case, the presiding judge cut through the legal chaff and ruled that the request for information was reasonable.
- Learn to listen out for instinct, to separate it from the usual mental chaff, that bit of info, chant, incantation, poem that downloads itself into yer head aint easy.
- It takes an incisive professional to cut through all this self-indulgent chaff to bring you the priceless kernel of truth, so here goes…
- Words, words, words: we have so many words, and they are chaff, but where is THE WORD that in the beginning was God and was with God?
- The irony is that, in editing, one has to lie to tell the truth, otherwise the audience would die of boredom or the truth would be smothered under a mountain of chaff.
- So, today, I had a thunderstruck few minutes when I entered the bookshop, comprehending just how much chaff has been created by Dan Brown's bloody book.
- However, there's a hell of a lot of chaff to go through as well.
- I want to tell my children and my grandchildren that their parents and grandparents were neither super-men nor human chaff.
Synonyms rubbish, refuse, waste, garbage, litter, discarded matter, debris, detritus, scrap, dross - 1.3 Strips of metal foil or metal filings released in the atmosphere from aircraft, or deployed as missiles, to obstruct radar detection or confuse radar-tracking missiles.
Example sentencesExamples - The radar works well, Hayes said, through multifaceted conditions, including inconsistent terrain, heavy rain, migrating birds, glaciers and chaff.
- Radar sensitive chaff (mica and silica) in the chemical mixture permits tracking of chemical agent dispersal patterns in the atmosphere.
- Navy procedures for limiting the use of essential training equipment such as chaff, flares, and radar-warning gear to only fleet assigned aircraft and those working up for sea duty was also identified as a problem.
- It holds 160 chaff / flare packages, up to five times more than conventional dispensers.
- The ship is equipped with four chaff launch systems and the Ajanta radar interceptor developed by Bharat Electronics Limited of Bangalore.
- DAG will include missile warning system, radar warning receiver, towed radar decoy and chaff and flare dispensers.
- ‘We monitor and maintain electrical systems, ejection seats, launch and recovery systems and load chaff,’ CPL Rock said.
- Various antennas related to the mission sprouted from the fuselage while four wing pylons held other related equipment such as chaff dispensers and noise jammers.
- The electronic warfare systems include a radar warning receiver and automatic or manually operated chaff and flare dispensers.
- Initially the second Exocet's radar locked onto the Invincible; however, large amounts of chaff caused it to break lock.
- The countermeasures system can dispense chaff cartridges and infrared flares and the POET and GEN-X active expendable decoys.
- For operational roles, the aircraft is fitted with a radar warning receiver, chaff and flares dispensers, and active electronic countermeasures.
- Each launcher has six launch tubes and is capable of firing illuminating rounds or chaff rounds to counter hostile radars and radar guided missiles.
- Initially, we flew pure chaff missions where instead of bombs we were loaded with boxes and boxes of chaff that we dumped while circling over the target before the bombers got there.
- He put two frag grenades, two smoke grenades and two chaff grenades into their respective compartments.
- M - 1 Tank Your first order when fighting this thing is to jam its sensors with a chaff grenade.
- To further thwart engagement, a LACM could employ relatively simple countermeasures such as chaff and decoys.
- A reduced Doppler shift also enhances the effectiveness of chaff and decoys, which should allow the aircraft to break lock and hide in ground clutter.
- The countermeasures system includes a pilot illumination radar warning receiver, chaff and infrared decoy dispensers, and an active multi-mode jammer located in the wingtip pods.
- The one in the D seat handles the airplane's defensive systems, responsible for electronic counter-jamming of enemy radars trying to lock onto the bomber and punching chaff or flares if an enemy gets a shot off at them.
Phrases separate (or sort) the wheat from the chaff Distinguish valuable people or things from worthless ones. Example sentencesExamples - The betting market promises to be the best guide to sorting the wheat from the chaff in the first two-year-old race of the season, the Ballyhane Stud Brocklesby Stakes.
- Doing this will sort the wheat from the chaff and will save time, effort and tears.
- Certainly a ringtone reduces pop songs down to their barest essentials and in doing so sorts the wheat from the chaff.
- There are lots of tributes out there and the crowds soon learn to sort the wheat from the chaff.
- I sat down one no-doubt-procrastinatory afternoon and sorted the wheat from the chaff.
- The problem comes in sorting the wheat from the chaff, and you or I can only try to assess the performance of our local authority planning department.
- The market will have to sort the wheat from the chaff.
- It took over an hour to sort the wheat from the chaff - and that was just going through the subject lines to pick out the usual suspects.
- There's more of everything, a plethora of competing versions vying for the user's attention and, to cap it all, the web is so jam-packed with information that it's getting harder by the day to sort the wheat from the chaff.
- Perhaps that might help to sort the wheat from the chaff.
Origin Old English cæf, ceaf, probably from a Germanic base meaning ‘gnaw’; related to Dutch kaf, also to chafer. nounCHaftʃæf Lighthearted joking; banter. we used to come in for a fair amount of ribbing and good-natured chaff Example sentencesExamples - Every one had a hearty welcome for my people, and some good-natured chaff about their having "buried themselves" so long.
- The air was full of good-natured chaff and badinage between persons who had never seen each other before and never expected to again.
- Made us roar in the mess, though I've had to put up with a certain amount of good-natured chaff about having a father who reads the Guardian, let alone writes for it!
Synonyms banter, repartee, raillery, ripostes, sallies, quips, wisecracks, crosstalk, wordplay, teasing, ragging
verbCHaftʃæf [with object]Tease. Example sentencesExamples - Manda had a feeling he enjoyed chaffing Michael and making his life miserable, but she had no idea why.
- Still they laughed and called to each other at the joy of returning home, and chaffed one another in loud voices.
- It seemed the whole city was en fate as rival supporters with all manner of blue-and-white manifestations chaffed one another good-humoredly and cheered loudly.
- But if you opened his inside (…), you cannot imagine how full he is, good companions, of sobriety… [He] spends his life in chaffing and making game of his fellow-men.
Synonyms tease, make fun of, poke fun at, rag, mock, laugh at, guy
Origin Early 19th century: perhaps from chafe. |