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1. Chaff
   The glumes, lemmas, paleas and light plant-tissue fragments broken in threshing of grain.
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2. 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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3. 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...
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4. 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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5. 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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6. 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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7. 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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8. chaff
   noun foil in thin strips; ejected into the air as a radar countermeasure
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9. 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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10. 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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11. 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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12. Chaff
    Chaff is British slang for banter, nonsense talk.
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13. Chaff
    Chaff is British slang for banter, nonsense talk.
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14. 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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15. 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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16. Chaff
    Chaff is a passive form of electronic countermeasure used to deceive airborne or ground-based radar.
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17. Chaff
    Chaff is a passive form of electronic countermeasure used to deceive airborne or ground-based radar.
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18. Chaff
    `Chaff` (<ref name="OED">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 a...
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19. Chaff
    (countermeasure) `Chaff`, originally called `Window`<ref name="WSC_Closing the Ring">--> by the British, and `Düppel` by the Second World War era German Luftwaffe (from the Berlin suburb it was first found near), is a radar countermeasure in which aircraft or other targ...
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20. 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...
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