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The husks of corn or other seed separated by winnowing or threshing,
  1. Tease

Noun
  1. Lighthearted joking; banter

  1. material consisting of seed coverings and small pieces of stem or leaves that have been separated from the seeds
  2. kid: be silly or tease one another; "After we relaxed, we just kidded around"
  3. foil in thin strips; ejected into the air as a radar countermeasure
  4. 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. ...
  5. Chaff, originally called Window 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 targets spread a cloud of small, thin pieces of aluminium, metallised glass fibre or ...
  6. 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.
  7. 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 ...
  8. Small strips of metal foil, usually dropped in large quantities from aircraft or balloons. Chaff typically produces a radar echo which closely resembles precipitation. ...
  9. (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.
  10. To see chaff, denotes an empty and fruitless undertaking and ill health causing much anxiety. Women dreaming of piles of chaff, portends many hours spent in useless and degrading gossip, bringing them into notoriety and causing them to lose husbands who would have maintained them without work on ...
  11. Chaff is paper-like stuff that appears though the roasting process. These little brown flakes are fragments of the innermost skin (the silverskin) of the coffee fruit that still cling to the beans after processing has been completed. Roasting causes these bits of skin to lift off the bean.
  12. (1) membranous scales or bracts; (2) thin dry unfertilized ovules among the fully developed seeds of a fruit, as in many eucalypts.
  13. A thin, dry bract. Often seen originating on the receptacle of flowers from the Asteraceae.
  14. Broken pieces of dried seed capsules, stems, leaves and other debris mixed in with seeds.
  15. husks or other seed coverings and other plant parts separated from seed during harvest or processing.
  16. The refuse of winnowed corn. It was usually burned (Exo 15:7; Isa 5:24; Mat 3:12). This word sometimes, however, means dried grass or hay (Isa 5:24; Isa 33:11). Chaff is used as a figure of abortive wickedness (Psa 1:4; Mat 3:12). ...
  17. strips of tinsel-like metal foil dropped by an aircraft to decoy or confuse enemy RADAR by reflection; this countermeasures invention by the British during WWII was originally known by its CODENAME "window"; see MUSIC, NOISE, ECM. ...
  18. the husks of wheat or other grain separated in threshing or winnowing.
  19. (rhymes with, laugh): good-natured teasing or joking. You hear a lot of chaff at the lunch table with your friends. Chaff can also be a verb. You chaff your buddy when you give him a hard time over his new outfit.
  20. The loose hay that falls to the ground after cutting open a bale. Also Chaff hay is dried forage that has been cut into small pieces and bagged.
  21. Small metal foil strips dropped in great quantity from balloons or aircraft that produce radar echos that are similar to precipitation. Such drops are used for testing and calibrating radars, although the military formerly use them to confuse the enemy’s radar equipment.
  22. The remains of silver skin on green coffee beans that are released during roasting.
  23. the light fluffy pieces that come off the beans while they are being roasted, somewhat like the thin cover of the peanut after you open the shell.
  24. There are a wide range of chaffs now on the market to cater for the varying nutritional requirements of all types of horses and ponies. ...
  25. the fine, dry material, such as husks (seed coverings) and other debris, which is separated from the seed in the process of threshing grain. In the Bible, chaff symbolizes worthless, evil, or wicked persons (or things) that are about to be destroyed (Ps. 1:4; Matt. 3:12; Luke 3:17). ...