The phrase "a chaff" is not correct in standard English usage.
The correct expression is "the chaff," which refers to the husks of grains and seeds that are separated during the threshing process, often used metaphorically to mean worthless or trivial parts.
Example: "In the debate, he managed to separate the wheat from the chaff, focusing only on the most important arguments."
Alternatives: "the dross" or "the refuse."
This time, the military is warning people to stay 35 feet away from the device, a "chaff module".
A 1954 local phone directory hung from a crank-phone obviously several decades older; and a collection of old farm machinery included an enormous contraption Charley told me was a chaff cutter, a device for cutting straw.
It's why Sydney's Alan Jones wasn't banished from the radio after calling for our first and only female prime minister, Julia Gillard, to be "shoved into a chaff bag" – along with Bob Brown – and dropped in the ocean.
RH-200 rockets carrying a chaff payload were launched at 13:07 and 15:00 IST on the eclipse day, and the control day, to measure the horizontal winds in the stratospheric-mesospheric (30 65 km) region.
Rice straw used for enzyme production was procured from a local farm, cut into 1 2 cm size with a chaff cutter and passed through 5 mm mesh in a hammer mill.
Chaff bases percentage [ 21]: The percentage ratio of cumulative length of chaff contigs to cumulative length of all contigs in the assembly, where a chaff contig is a single contig with a length less than 200 bp [ 21].
On Leg 2, about four-fifths of the way to Cape Town, Van Liew had to climb his mast to repair a chaffed gennaker halyard.
How about a 10percentt pay raise?" Your request will likely add a chaffing discomfort to Mr. Filthy Rich's swagger, and may prompt him to dial it back.
These consisted of a series of wooden planks with a layer of straw on top, on which was placed a chaff-filled mattress.
Up to now, we have focused on a two-stage diminution of air-dry straw: first in a usual chaff cutter followed by a hammer mill to smash the several-millimeter-thick stalk nodes.
This could be a basic chaff and grain mix, or you could go all out and make something original, such as Bran Biscuits or a sweet feed mix.
