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Перевод: chaff

[прилагательное]
соломенный;
[существительное]
мякина ; мелко нарезанная солома; сечка ; высевки ; кострика ; отбросы ; подшучивание; поддразнивание; добродушная насмешка; болтовня ;
[глагол]
подшучивать; поддразнивать; дразнить; резать; рубить

Тезаурус:

1. But, the VGA stresses, psychometric testing is not there to glean the wheat and discard the chaff.
2. Chaff and grain can no longer build up on the screen, air flow stays constant and the main turbine blades (over 100 each) aren't assaulted by small and/or shattered grain.
3. Some conclusions are apparent, however, that help to show why buy-outs take place and what separates the wheat from the chaff:
4. In these days of dwindling research funds and increased competition, what better way of disposing of rivals than by characterising papers or proposals as so much chaff?
5. Atlantic Conveyor, a converted merchantman, did not carry either Abbey Hill or chaff launchers.
6. During other attacks, Abbey Hill provided warning soon enough for ships to fire rockets full of chaff - metallic strips that produced false echoes on Exocet's radar.
7. Sort and clean the seeds, removing stems, casings and chaff manually, by sieving or blowing away the debris.
8. We used to come in for a fair amount of ribbing and good-natured chaff, and remarks like, Was it a red sky this morning?
9. In theory this should sort out the wheat from the chaff but the definition of wheat in the intelligence world is so wide that even with the best filter the net volume of material is of such staggering proportions that it is beyond any useful human assessment.
10. This declaration proved to be premature, although a recommendation that there should be a longer term for the candidate stage towards full party membership must have provided a useful mechanism for sifting the wheat from the chaff.
11. This gives the courts a useful power to separate the wheat from the chaff among the pending cases.
12. The process is a bit like winnowing, the old method of using the wind to separate wheat from chaff, except that in the case of pyroclastic material there is no simple division into light material (husks) and heavy (grain) but a continuous gradation in sizes (and therefore weight) of particles from fine to coarse.
13. And lay tired limbs on stinking straw, or chaff!