CHAFF


Meaning of CHAFF in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ tʃɑ:f, tʃæf ]

1.

Chaff is the outer part of grain such as wheat. It is removed before the grain is used as food.

N-UNCOUNT

2.

If you separate the wheat from the chaff or sort the wheat from the chaff , you decide which people or things in a group are good or important and which are not.

It isn’t always easy to separate the wheat from the chaff.

PHRASE : V inflects

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