(n.) The glumes or husks of grains and grasses separated from the seed by threshing and winnowing, etc.
(n.) Anything of a comparatively light and worthless character; the refuse part of anything.
(n.) Straw or hay cut up fine for the food of cattle.
(n.) Light jesting talk; banter; raillery.
(n.) The scales or bracts on the receptacle, which subtend each flower in the heads of many Compositae, as the sunflower.
(v. i.) To use light, idle language by way of fun or ridicule; to banter.
(v. t.) To make fun of; to turn into ridicule by addressing in ironical or bantering language; to quiz.
Example Sentences:
(1) Pregnant ewes and their fetuses were chronically catheterized using aseptic procedures under general anaesthesia, and the ewes were then fed either lucerne chaff alone, or lucerne mixed with dried plant material obtained from one of three forb species, Tribulus terrestris (caltrop), Abelmoschus ficulneus (native rosella) or Ipomoea lonchophylla (cowvine), from 103-112 days gestation until term.
(2) a basal diet of sugar and oaten chaff which was supplemented with fish meal at various levels.
(3) Sulfur pools in the rumen and sulfur flows from the rumen were investigated in two experiments with sheep on a diet containing equal parts of oaten and lucerne chaffs.
(4) A study was made of the effect of rice chaff oil (ASA) on gastroduodenal ulcer (UGD) induced by different techniques: cysteaminium chloride, indomethacin, artificial gastric juices and stress (acidity, histamine, pepsin and volume of gastric juice were evaluated).
(5) Cross-reacting allergens were detected in samples of coffee dust, cleaner can debris and green coffee beans, but not in chaff or roasted coffee beans.
(6) The authors review common cases of syncope and outline a practical approach to rapidly identifying high-risk patients--in other words, to separating the "wheat" from the "chaff."
(7) Four Merino ewes given lucerne chaff (33 g every hour) were used.
(8) Others use the warm wind blowing from the nearby Negev desert to separate rough legumes from chaff.
(9) Asked if he meant the split in his party would separate “the wheat from the chaff”, Huelskamp smiled broadly, and said that was a phrase he often used on his farm, in Kansas.
(10) The trick is to filter out the wheat from the chaff, most of which is as Seth describes, "all from an intelligent society, namely ours".
(11) In a carcinogenicity study 443 out of 956 rats had chaff from oat and barley in the mouth between the molars and the gingiva.
(12) Three grey knagaroos and three sheep were given a diet of lucerne chaff and measurements were made of feed intake, digestibility coefficients, methane production rate and volatile fatty acid content of the "stomach" and caecum for each animal.
(13) Linseed (91%), oats (83%), barley chaff (88%) and wheat bran (82%) are other excellent binders of E2.
(14) Gukurahundi – a Shona word for the spring rains that sweep away dry season chaff – remains an open wound of Mugabe's 31-year rule .
(15) The Gukurahundi – a Shona word for the spring rains that sweep away dry season chaff – was Mugabe's response to the rivalry after independence in 1980 between his Zimbabwe African National Union (Zanu) and Joshua Nkomo's Zimbabwe African People's Union (Zapu).
(16) volume) and heart rate were measured on four occasions, evenly spread over a 12-month period, with the deer individually fed indoors on a diet of lucerne (Medicago sativa) chaff.
(17) The protozoal populations in the rumen of cattle fed on the diet with the low level of oaten chaff were mainly small ciliates; but on the higher level of chaff in the diet, the large ciliates were a higher proportion of the total protozoal population present.
(18) An analysis is made of the physiologic aspects studied in each technique, emphasizing the possible implication of prostaglandins (PG) and alpha-tocopherol after treatment with rice chaff oil.
(19) The beans are separated from their skin, known as the chaff, and when fully roasted they are transferred into a glass jar ready to be ground.
(20) Balances for digestion of food determined for the rumen indicated that the energies in the end-products were more than 100% of the DE intakes of lucerne chaff.
Detection
Definition:
(n.) The act of detecting; the laying open what was concealed or hidden; discovery; as, the detection of a thief; the detection of fraud, forgery, or a plot.
Example Sentences:
(1) Serum levels of both dihydralazine and metabolites were very low and particularly below the detection limit.
(2) First results let us assume that clinically silent TIAs also (in analogy to clinically silent brain infarctions) could be detected and located.
(3) This should not be a serious limitation to the application of the RIA in the detection of venous thrombosis.
(4) We were able to detect genetic recombination between vaccine strains of PRV following in vitro or in vivo coinoculation of 2 strains of PRV.
(5) Prior to oral feeding, little or no ELA was detected in stools and endotoxinemia was ascertained in only six of 45 infants (13%).
(6) An effective graft-surveillance protocol needs to be applicable to all patients; practical in terms of time, effort, and cost; reliable; and able to detect, grade, and assess progression of lesions.
(7) However, CT will be insensitive in the detection of the more cephalic proximal lesions, especially those in the brain stem, basal cisterns, and skull base.
(8) At the early phase of the sensitization a T-cell response was seen in vitro, characterized by an increased spleen but no peripheral blood lymphocyte reactivity to T-cell mitogens at the same time as increased reactivity to the sensitizing antigen was detected.
(9) Oligoclonal bands were not detected in any of the sera or CSF.
(10) BL6 mouse melanoma cells lack detectable H-2Kb and had low levels of expression of H-2Db Ag.
(11) A new and simple method of serotyping campylobacters has been developed which utilises co-agglutination to detect the presence of heat-stable antigens.
(12) After 4 to 6 hours of recirculation, accumulation of vasoactive amine, 5-hydroxytryptamine, its major metabolite, 5-hydroxyindole acetic acid, and its precursor amino acid, tryptophan were detected.
(13) Cyanoacrylate and PDS coatings were not detectable after 6 weeks while PHBA and PLLA coatings were still observed after 48 weeks.
(14) From these data it is possible to predict theoretically the apparent temperature difference as seen by an infrared scanner or radiometer with a detector of which the spectral detectivity, D (lambda), is known.
(15) Mycobacterial DNA was detected in 11 of the 22 biopsies.
(16) A subsample of patients scoring over the recommended threshold (five or above) on the general health questionnaire were interviewed by the psychiatrist to compare the case detection of the general practitioner, an independent psychiatric assessment and the 28-item general health questionnaire at two different cut-off scores.
(17) One of these antibodies, MCaE11, was used for immunohistochemical detection of MAC in tissue and for quantification of the fluid-phase TCC in ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid plasma.
(18) In addition, KM231 could detect a small amount of the antigen ganglioside in human gastric normal and cancerous mucosa and in gastric cancer cell lines by HPTLC-immunostaining.
(19) By hybridization studies, three plasmids in two forms (open circular and supercoiled) were detected in the strain A24.
(20) The hprt T-cell cloning assay allows the detection of mutations occurring in vivo in the hypoxanthine-guanine phosphoribosyltransferase (hprt) gene of T-lymphocytes.