material consisting of seed coverings and pieces of stem The wheat, being heavy, falls, while the chaff is blown away. — Starr, Frederick

"husks," Old English ceaf "chaff," probably from Proto-Germanic *kaf- "to gnaw, chew" (source also of Middle Dutch and Dutch kaf, German Kaff), from PIE root *gep(h)- &qu [..]

Chaff [N] [S]the refuse of winnowed corn. It was usually burned ( Exodus 15:7 ; Isaiah 5:24 ; Matthew 3:12 ). This word sometimes, however, means dried grass or hay ( Isaiah 5:24 ; 33:11 ). Chaff is u [..]

the dry, usually worthless, husks of grain or grass.

Lightweight reflecting material, typically consisting of aluminum foil strips or metal-coated fibers, that is released in the atmosphere to produce radar echoes. Initially developed as a military coun [..]

outer covering of grain, good humoured teasing or joking.

  Flakes of the innermost skin of the coffee fruit (the silverskin) that remain clinging to the green bean after processing and float free during roasting.

the refuse of winnowed corn. It was usually burned (Ex. 15:7; Isa. 5:24; Matt. 3:12). This word sometimes, however, means dried grass or hay (Isa. 5:24; 33:11). Chaff is used as a figure of abortive w [..]

the husk of corn or wheat which was separated from the grain by being thrown into the air, the wind blowing away the chaff, while the grain was saved. The carrying away of chaff by the wind is an ordi [..]

Bracts surrounding a cereal grain; removed during threshing. Chagas' disease

The seed coverings on grain that must be separated before the grain can be used.

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 their part.   

(n) material consisting of seed coverings and small pieces of stem or leaves that have been separated from the seeds(n) foil in thin strips; ejected into the air as a radar countermeasure(v) be silly [..]

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An old bird is not to be caught with chaff. An experienced man, or one with his wits about him, is not to be deluded by humbug. The reference is to throwing chaff instead of bird-seed to allure birds. [..]

small fragments; refers to small or undersized pieces of carrot, or small pieces of other baits treated with 1080

Broken pieces of dried seed capsules, stems, leaves and other debris mixed in with seeds. characteristics

Small strips of metal foil, usually dropped in large quantities from aircraft or balloons. Chaff typically produces a radar echo which closely resembles precipitation. Chaff drops once were conducted by the military in order to confuse enemy radar, but now are conducted mainly for radar testing and calibration purposes.

Small strips of metal foil, usually dropped in large quantities from aircraft or balloons. Chaff typically produces a radar echo which closely resembles precipitation. Chaff drops once were conducted by the military in order to confuse enemy radar, but now are conducted mainly for radar testing and calibrarion purposes.

To make fun of someone. To rub someone the wrong way.

Chaff is a passive form of electronic countermeasure used to deceive airborne or ground-based radar.

active form of electronic countermeasure, usually carried in a pod or dispenser aboard an aircraft and released to disrupt radar tracking and/or acquisition

A World War II defense against radar that's still in use. It wasn't long after an effective ground-based anti-aircraft radar ("RAdio Detection And Ranging") was achieved by the Bri [..]

Strips of tin or aluminium foil dumped by aircraft in an attempt to avoid a radar homing missile. The foil reflects radar waves and is designed to confuse the radar seeker on the missile

Pertaining to radar, (1) short, fine strips of metallic foil dropped from aircraft, usually by military forces, specifically for the purpose of jamming radar; (2) applied loosely to echoes resulting f [..]

Packages of tiny foil strips dropped from F-16 that confuse radar-guided missiles.

Metallic foil ejected by a reentry module to enhance its radar image.

The dry bracts enclosing mature grains of wheat and some other cereal grasses, removed during threshing

Chaff (; also UK: ) is the dry, scaly protective casing of the seeds of cereal grains or similar fine, dry, scaly plant material (such as scaly parts of flowers or finely chopped straw). Chaff is indi [..]

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 aircraf [..]

Chaff is dry inedible plant material. Chaff may also refer to: Chaff (countermeasure), a radar countermeasure for aircraft or other targets Chaff algorithm, an algorithm for solving instances of the [..]

Chaff was the students' newspaper at Massey University, New Zealand, from 1934 until 2011.