Grain vs Chaff - What's the difference?
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(uncountable) The harvested seeds of various grass food crops eg: wheat, corn, barley.
(uncountable) Similar seeds from any food crop, eg buckwheat, amaranth, quinoa.
(countable) A single seed of grain.
(countable, uncountable) The crops from which grain is harvested.
(uncountable) A linear texture of a material or surface.
(countable) A single particle of a substance.
(countable) A very small unit of weight, in England equal to 1/480 of an ounce troy, 0.0648 grams or, to be more exact, 64.79891 milligrams (0.002285714 avoirdupois ounce). A carat grain or pearl grain is 1/4 carat or 50 milligrams. The old French grain was 1/9216 livre or 53.11 milligrams, and in the mesures usuelles permitted from 1812 to 1839, with the livre redefined as 500 grams, it was 54.25 milligrams.
(countable) A former unit of gold purity, also known as carat grain , equal to "carat" (karat).
(materials) A region within a material having a single crystal structure or direction.
A reddish dye made from the coccus insect, or kermes; hence, a red color of any tint or hue, as crimson, scarlet, etc.; sometimes used by the poets as equivalent to Tyrian purple.
* Milton
* Quoted by Coleridge, preface to Aids to Reflection
The hair side of a piece of leather, or the marking on that side.
(in the plural) The remains of grain, etc., after brewing or distillation; hence, any residuum. Also called
(botany) A rounded prominence on the back of a sepal, as in the common dock.
Temper; natural disposition; inclination.
* Hayward
To feed grain to.
To make granular; to form into grains.
To form grains, or to assume a granular form, as the result of crystallization; to granulate.
To texture a surface in imitation of the grain of a substance such as wood.
(tanning) To remove the hair or fat from a skin.
(tanning) To soften leather.
To yield fruit.
A branch of a tree; a stalk or stem of a plant.
A tine, prong, or fork.
# One of the branches of a valley or river.
# An iron fish spear or harpoon, with a number of points half-barbed inwardly.
#* 1770 : Served 5 lb of fish per man which was caught by striking with grains'' — journal of Stephen Forwood (gunner on ), 4 May 1770, quoted by Parkin (page 195).
# A blade of a sword, knife, etc.
(founding) A thin piece of metal, used in a mould to steady a core.
The inedible parts of a grain-producing plant.
* Dryden
By extension, any excess or unwanted material, resource, or person; anything worthless.
* Shakespeare
Loose material dropped from aircraft specifically to interfere with radar detection.
Straw or hay cut up fine for the food of cattle.
* Wyatt
Light jesting talk; banter; raillery.
To use light, idle language by way of fun or ridicule; to banter.
To make fun of; to turn into ridicule by addressing in ironical or bantering language; to quiz.
In transitive terms the difference between grain and chaff
is that grain is to make granular; to form into grains while chaff is to make fun of; to turn into ridicule by addressing in ironical or bantering language; to quiz.In intransitive terms the difference between grain and chaff
is that grain is to form grains, or to assume a granular form, as the result of crystallization; to granulate while chaff is to use light, idle language by way of fun or ridicule; to banter.As nouns the difference between grain and chaff
is that grain is the harvested seeds of various grass food crops eg: wheat, corn, barley while chaff is the inedible parts of a grain-producing plant.As verbs the difference between grain and chaff
is that grain is to feed grain to while chaff is to use light, idle language by way of fun or ridicule; to banter.grain
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) grain, grein, from (etyl) . Compare English corn.Noun
- We stored a thousand tons of grain for the winter.
- a grain of wheat
- The fields were planted with grain .
- Cut along the grain of the wood.
- a grain of sand
- a grain of salt
- all in a robe of darkest grain
- doing as the dyers do, who, having first dipped their silks in colours of less value, then give them the last tincture of crimson in grain .
- (Knight)
- brothers not united in grain
Derived terms
* against the grain * grain of saltSee also
* cerealVerb
(en verb)- (Gower)
Etymology 2
See .Noun
(en noun)External links
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English
Noun
(-)- To separate out the chaff , early cultures tossed baskets of grain into the air and let the wind blow away the lighter chaff.
- So take the corn and leave the chaff behind.
- There are plenty of good books on the subject, but take care to separate the wheat from the chaff .
- the chaff and ruin of the times
- By adding chaff' to his corn, the horse must take more time to eat it. In this way ' chaff is very useful.
