chaff

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim The inedible parts of a grain-producing plant.

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

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

   “By adding chaff to his corn, the horse must take more time to eat it, and time is given for the commencement of digestion, before fermentation can occur. In this way chaff is very useful, especially after long fasts.”

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

   “the chaff and ruin of the times”

4. isim Light jesting talk; banter; raillery.

   “As for Huxter, perfectly at good-humour with himself, and the world, it never entered his mind that he could be disagreeable to anybody; and the little dispute, or “chaff,” as he styled it, of Vauxhall, was a trifle which he did not in the least regard.”

5. isim Loose material, e.g. small strips of aluminum foil dropped from aircraft, intended to interfere with radar detection.
6. fiil To use light, idle language by way of fun or ridicule; to banter.
7. fiil To make fun of; to turn into ridicule by addressing in ironical or bantering language.

   “We were talking about it at mess, yesterday, and chaffing Derby Oaks—until he was as mad as a hatter.”

8. fiil To cut up (straw or hay) for use as cattle feed.