English Dictionary

chaff

IPA（発音記号）

/t͡ʃæf/

名詞

不可算名詞 通常 比喩的用法

The inedible parts of a grain-producing plant. / Straw or hay cut up fine for the food of cattle. / (figuratively) Any excess or unwanted material, resource, or person; anything worthless.

日本語の意味

穀物生産植物の食べられない部分（例えば、もみ殻など） / 家畜の飼料として細かく切り刻んだ藁や干し草 / 比喩的に、過剰で不要なもの、価値のないものや人

After the threshing, the chaff piled high at the edge of the field.

脱穀のあと、畑の縁にもみ殻が山積みになった。

意味（1）

The inedible parts of a grain-producing plant.

Coordinate term: bran

意味（2）

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.

意味（3）

(figuratively) Any excess or unwanted material, resource, or person; anything worthless.

the chaff and ruin of the times

意味（4）

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.

意味（5）

(military) Loose material, e.g. small strips of aluminum foil dropped from aircraft, intended to interfere with radar detection.

chaffs （ plural ）