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chaff::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | husk, shuck, stalk, straw, stubble |
| Type of | plant material, plant substance |
| Has types | bran |
| Derivation | chaffy |
chaff::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | foil |
| Derivation | chaffy |
Examples of chaff
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The important role that publishers fill is to separate the wheat from the chaff.
From the forbes.com
He tossed the latter into the air, literally separating the wheat from the chaff.
From the dailyherald.com
Bring on an election, State and Federal, and let's sort the wheat from the chaff.
From the dailymercury.com.au
He sketched out plans to combine the groundhog with a unit to fan away the chaff.
From the investors.com
These are usually combined with active defenses such as chaff, flares, and ECM.
From the en.wikipedia.org
The contrast is the same as comparing fish and steak to chaff and wild vegetables.
From the theepochtimes.com
Freekeh is green wheat harvested before it dries and then smoked out of its chaff.
From the theatlantic.com
Few if any are capable of separating the terrorist wheat from the innocuous chaff.
From the washingtontimes.com
Let's see what the players can really do, so we sort the wheat from the chaff.
From the expressandstar.com
- Material consisting of seed coverings and small pieces of stem or leaves that have been separated from the seeds
- Kid: be silly or tease one another; "After we relaxed, we just kidded around"
- Foil in thin strips; ejected into the air as a radar countermeasure
- Chaff (Oxford English Dictionary, Oxford University Press, 1933: Chaff or) is the dry, scaly protective casings of the seeds of cereal grain, or similar fine, dry, scaly plant material such as scaly parts of flowers, or finely chopped straw. ...
- Chaff, originally called Window by the British, and Du00FCppel by the Second World War era German Luftwaffe (from the Berlin suburb where it was first developed), is a radar countermeasure in which aircraft or other targets spread a cloud of small, thin pieces of aluminium, metallized glass fibre or plastic, which either appears as a cluster of primary targets on radar screens or swamps the screen wi
- Chaff is the students' newspaper of Massey University Students' Association (MUSA) at the Turitea campus of Massey University, New Zealand. Chaff was established more than 70 years ago and is printed weekly throughout the academic year.
- The inedible parts of a grain-producing plant; By extension, any excess or unwanted material, resource, or person; anything worthless; Loose material dropped from aircraft specifically to interfere with radar detection; To use light, idle language by way of fun or ridicule; to banter; To make ...
- Small strips of metal foil, usually dropped in large quantities from aircraft or balloons. Chaff typically produces a radar echo which closely resembles precipitation. ...
- (JP 1-02)- Radar confusion reflectors, which consist of thin, narrow metallic strips of various lengths and frequency responses, used to reflect echoes for confusion purposes. (Army) Causes enemy missiles to lock on to it instead of the real aircraft. (See also deception.) See FMs 1-111 and 90-2.
