Look up: chaff

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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
   A component of trash in cotton in the form of a heterogeneous assortment of vegetable fragments,most of them being small pieces of leaf,leaf bract(a small form of leaf growing beneath the boll),and stalk Category: Various industries and crafts • ..some countries...have utilized the chaff...consisting primarily of the dried, mature capsules, for the direct extraction of morphine from th...
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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. Dryden. » « Old birds are not caught with caff . Old Proverb. » 2. Anything of a comparatively li ...
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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 each other about their sweethearts. C. Kingsley. »
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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
    `Chaff` (pronounced to rhyme with `half`) is a term from agriculture used for the bracts and casings that are not edible and are harvested with the cereal grain. These casings include hulls or husks and part of the pericarp. The chaff is a byproduct of grain production and is often used for animal feed, while the grain is often made into flour. See below for other meanings. Etymology: From Middle English `chaf,` from Old English `ceaf`; relate...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaff
    
    
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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.) Straw or hay cut up fine for the food of cattle....
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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 clusters of fine glass or ... [2 rela...
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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.
    Found on http://www.argospress.com/Resources/rada