Chaff vs. Dross — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Chaff and Dross
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Chaff
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 indigestible by humans, but livestock can eat it and in agriculture it is used as livestock fodder, or is a waste material ploughed into the soil or burned.
Dross
Dross is a mass of solid impurities floating on a molten metal or dispersed in the metal, such as in wrought iron. It forms on the surface of low-melting-point metals such as tin, lead, zinc or aluminium or alloys by oxidation of the metal.
Chaff
The dry bracts enclosing mature grains of wheat and some other cereal grasses, removed during threshing.
Dross
Waste or impure matter
Discarded the dross after recycling the wood pulp.
Chaff
The scales or bracts borne on the receptacle among the small individual flowers of many plants in the composite family.
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Dross
The scum that forms on the surface of molten metal as a result of oxidation.
Chaff
Finely cut straw or hay used as fodder.
Dross
Worthless, commonplace, or trivial matter
"He was wide-awake and his mind worked clearly, purged of all dross" (Vladimir Nabokov).
Chaff
Trivial or worthless matter
Ignored the picky, unimportant criticisms that were just a lot of chaff.
Dross
Waste or impure matter.
Chaff
Strips of metal, foil, or glass fiber with a metal content, cut into various lengths and having varying frequency responses, that are used to reflect electromagnetic energy as a radar countermeasure. These materials, usually dropped from aircraft, also can be deployed from shells or rockets.
Dross
Residue that forms on the surface of molten metal from oxidation.
Chaff
Good-natured teasing; banter.
Dross
The impurities in metal.
Chaff
To make fun of in a good-natured way; tease
Chaffed him for forgetting the appointment.
Dross
A waste product from working with metal.
Chaff
To engage in playful teasing.
Dross
(figurative) Worthless or trivial matter.
Chaff
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.
Dross
(transitive) To remove dross from.
Chaff
Straw or hay cut up fine for the food of cattle.
Dross
The scum or refuse matter which is thrown off, or falls from, metals in smelting the ore, or in the process of melting; recrement.
Chaff
(figurative) Any excess or unwanted material, resource, or person; anything worthless.
Dross
Rust of metals.
Chaff
Light jesting talk; banter; raillery.
Dross
Waste matter; any worthless matter separated from the better part; leavings; dregs; refuse.
All world's glory is but dross unclean.
At the devil's booth are all things sold,Each ounce of dross coats its ounce of gold.
Chaff
(military) Loose material, e.g. small strips of aluminum foil dropped from aircraft, intended to interfere with radar detection.
Dross
Worthless material that should be removed;
There were impurities in the water
Chaff
(intransitive) To use light, idle language by way of fun or ridicule; to banter.
Dross
The scum formed by oxidation at the surface of molten metals
Chaff
(transitive) To make fun of; to turn into ridicule by addressing in ironical or bantering language; to quiz.
Chaff
(transitive) To cut up (straw or hay) for use as cattle feed.
Chaff
The glumes or husks of grains and grasses separated from the seed by threshing and winnowing, etc.
So take the corn and leave the chaff behind.
Old birds are not caught with caff.
Chaff
Anything of a comparatively light and worthless character; the refuse part of anything.
The chaff and ruin of the times.
Chaff
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. In this way chaff is very useful.
Chaff
Light jesting talk; banter; raillery.
Chaff
The scales or bracts on the receptacle, which subtend each flower in the heads of many Compositæ, as the sunflower.
Chaff
To use light, idle language by way of fun or ridicule; to banter.
Chaff
To make fun of; to turn into ridicule by addressing in ironical or bantering language; to quiz.
Morgan saw that his master was chaffing him.
A dozen honest fellows . . . chaffed each other about their sweethearts.
Chaff
Material consisting of seed coverings and small pieces of stem or leaves that have been separated from the seeds
Chaff
Foil in thin strips; ejected into the air as a radar countermeasure
Chaff
Be silly or tease one another;
After we relaxed, we just kidded around
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