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Chaff
The glumes, lemmas, paleas and light plant-tissue fragments broken in threshing of grain.
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chaff
[n] - material consisting of seed coverings and small pieces of stem or leaves that have been separated from the seeds 2. [n] - foil in thin strips
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Chaff
Chaff noun [ AC. ceaf ; akin to Dutch kaf , German kaff .] 1. The glumes or husks of grains and grasses separated from the seed by threshing and winnowing, etc. « So take the corn and leave the chaff behind.
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Chaff
Chaff intransitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Chaffed ; present participle & verbal noun Chaffing .] To use light, idle language by way of fun or ridicule; to banter.
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Chaff
Chaff transitive verb To make fun of; to turn into ridicule by addressing in ironical or bantering language; to quiz. « Morgan saw that his master was chaffing him. Thackeray. » « A dozen honest fellows . . . chaffed...
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chaff
<plant biology> Thin, membranous scales or bracts, thin, dry unfertilized ovules among the fully developed seeds of a fruit. ... (21 Mar 1998) ...
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chaff
noun foil in thin strips; ejected into the air as a radar countermeasure
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chaff
husk noun material consisting of seed coverings and small pieces of stem or leaves that have been separated from the seeds
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Chaff
• (n.) The scales or bracts on the receptacle, which subtend each flower in the heads of many Compositae, as the sunflower. • (v. t.) To make fun of; to turn into ridicule by addressing in ironical or bantering language; to quiz. • (n.) Light jesting talk; banter; raillery. • (n....
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chaff
(from the article `radar`) ...or repeater jamming, by which hostile jammers introduce additional signals into the radar receiver in an attempt to confuse the receiver into ... To defend against antiship missiles, navies employed towed or helicopter-borne decoys. Sometimes chaff (strips of foil or cl...
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Chaff
Chaff is British slang for banter, nonsense talk.
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Chaff
Chaff is British slang for banter, nonsense talk.
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Chaff
[countermeasure] Chaff, originally called Window by the British, and Düppel 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, met...
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Chaff
Chaff (f or f) 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 is inedible for humans, but livestock can eat it and in agriculture it is used as livestock fodder, or is a was...
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Chaff
Chaff refers to large quantities of passive reflecting material deployed in the atmosphere to counter or confuse enemy radar. Chaff was (almost) simultaneously introduced during World War II (1943) by the Germans and the British. The British called their version of chaff window.
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Chaff
Chaff is a device comprising strips of metal foil, used to confuse enemy radar systems including those in guided missiles.
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Chaff
Chaff is a passive form of electronic countermeasure used to deceive airborne or ground-based radar.
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Chaff
Chaff is a passive form of electronic countermeasure used to deceive airborne or ground-based radar.
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Chaff
thin scales or bracts subtending individual flowers in many species of the asteraceae
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Chaff
[newspaper] 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. ==Controversy== In May 2006 the cover of th...
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chaff
1) Grain debris 2) Grain husk 3) Grain husks 4) Harvest leavings 5) Husk 6) Plant material 7) Refuse 8) Shuck 9) Stalk 10) Straw 11) Stubble 12) Tease good-naturedly 13) Tease goodnaturedly 14) Tease pl...
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