Word Finder - chaff

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The inedible parts of a grain-producing plant.

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To separate out the chaff, early cultures tossed baskets of grain into the air and let the wind blow away the lighter chaff.

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Straw or hay cut up fine for the food of cattle.

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Any excess or unwanted material, resource, or person; anything worthless.

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Light jesting talk; banter; raillery.

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Loose material, e.g. small strips of aluminum foil dropped from aircraft, intended to interfere with radar detection.

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To use light, idle language by way of fun or ridicule; to banter.

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To make fun of; to turn into ridicule by addressing in ironical or bantering language; to quiz.

These are thrown into a basket containing chaff made from the capsules.

It was left to the Stoics to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to assign to the words "knowledge" and "nature" a saner and more comprehensive meaning.

The first step, it seems, is to separate the chaff from the grain.

Yesterday I passed a field in which they were burning the chaff.

Cereal by-products - wheat chaff, maize gluten feed, rice bran.

The many enemies of Jerusalem " will become like fine dust, the ruthless hordes like blown chaff.

Show me any mode for winnowing the chaff from the corn.

A further 9% of samples contain only glume wheat chaff.

It now stands in Bay XII next to the chaff cutters.

Among the subjects deserving notice may be mentioned the practice of steeping and liming seed corn as a preventive of smut; changing every year the species of grain, and bringing seed corn from a distance; ploughing down green crops as manure; and feeding horses with broken oats and chaff.

The grain was separated from the chaff using the wind or a winnowing machine.

Few men, perhaps, ever gave their hearers so much wheat and so little chaff.

No real attempt has been made to sift so much chaff, in order to find how much of value may be present.

The sound of the chiff chaff is unmistakable; it sings the sound of its name.

The results of correspondence analysis confirm the association with cereal chaff.

There is only one sample that comprises just barley chaff with no grains.

Read on for some helpful tips that will help you separate the wheat from the chaff, and find the straw bag of your dreams.

Unfortunately, it is often difficult to separate the wheat from the chaff to determine which products may be effective and which are scams.

However, often a part time, or even full time, employee is dedicated to separating the wheat from the chaff, and gleaning the useful information from the forum.

Trying to wade through the chaff is usually not worth the time.

Winnowing was done by women, who tossed the grain into the air with small wooden boards, the chaff being blown away by the winds.

No attempt is made to prevent random chaff from being recognized as a valid section of the message.

These are fed in very small quantities and can be fed with a low calorie chaff such as Dengie Hi-Fi.

A heavy wooden sledge fitted with sharp, cutting, spikes was used to separate the precious wheat from the chaff.

My criteria for sifting the wheat from the chaff is simple, I 'm only keeping the remarkable.

There is commercialism, but we have to sort the wheat and the chaff.

How do you separate the wheat from the chaff?

Once the tinted dead skin cells begin to chaff, the bronzed glow dissipates and fades.

The Chaff grenade is used to disable electronic devices including Sam's devices (so only use it if you don't plan on using Sam's goggles temporarily).

Instead of trying to sort through the chaff, just go to the National Automobile Dealers Association's site, a well-regarded source that even auto dealers use.

Let's separate the wheat from the chaff to find looks that are long on style, but short on cost!

Shipping opium is distinguished by its soft character and clean paste, containing very little debris, or chaff, as it is technically called.

I have champed up all that chaff about the ego and the non-ego, noumena and phenomena, and all the rest of it, too often not to know that in attempting even to think of these questions, the human intellect flounders at once out of its depth."

Wheats of dry countries and of those exposed to severe winds have, says De Vilmorin, narrow leaves, pliant straw, bearded ears, and velvety chaff - characteristics which enable them to resist wind and drought.

The most famous of these are B euves de Comarchis, Ernaud de Girone, Garin d'Anseun, Aimer le chaff, so called from his long captivity with the Saracens.

We might assume that criticism and analysis had separated the wheat from the chaff in their writings, that everything of permanent value had probably been preserved and incorporated in the works of later economists.

A double handful of clean chaff, or of bran mixed with the oats in the manger, prevents a greedy horse from swallowing a considerable proportion whole.

In Isaiah's days the answer had been affirmative; there appeared to be at least a potentiality of national regeneration in the holy seed when once it should be cleansed from the chaff by a work of judgment.