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chaff

/chaf, chahf/US // tʃæf, tʃɑf //UK // (tʃɑːf) //

秕糠,糠秕,糠,谷壳

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the husks of grains and grasses that are separated during threshing.
    • : straw cut up for fodder.
    • : worthless matter; refuse.
    • : the membranous, usually dry, brittle bracts of the flowers of certain plants.
    • : Also called window. Military. strips of metal foil dropped by an aircraft to confuse enemy radar by creating false blips.

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Examples

  • The wheat from the chaff will get separated very, very quickly here.

  • You’re trying to separate the wheat from the chaff, so to speak.

  • There is good free content on YouTube—including on Perrigo’s or Albrecht’s feeds—but you have to sift through a lot of chaff.

  • If Apple follows through, iOS14 will be a test of marketers’ and advertisers’ mettle, and will likely separate the wheat from the chaff.

  • For CinemaSins, the cookie cutter approach often takes much of the chaff, but leaves behind the wheat.

  • I say you're no good as an interview because no one is very good at sorting the wheat from the chaff.

  • Yankees tend to shrug off such numbers as largely the chaff drifting down.

  • Your miner friends notice the stiffness of your walk and chaff you about it.

  • For a graduate seminar at Georgetown, the chaff-to-wheat ratio is disturbingly high.

  • Even if poverty were gone, the flail could still beat hard enough upon the grain and chaff of humanity.

  • Though the amount played for is serious, a good deal of rather bald conversation and chaff goes on.

  • Don't chaff, Shirtings; you're a very good fellow, you know, but I'm not in a laughing humour.

  • I'm told that the old men when they were together would chaff each other about their children.

  • The soft easy chaff bed gave her more of rest and satisfaction than if it had been eiderdown.