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Quote:An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff.[Adlai Stevenson]

Quote:Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed. [Elbert Hubbard]



Definitions of: chaff

Definition: The glumes or husks of grains and grasses separated from the seed by threshing and winnowing, etc.

Definition: Anything of a comparatively light and worthless character; the refuse part of anything.

Definition: Straw or hay cut up fine for the food of cattle.

Definition: Light jesting talk; banter; raillery.

Definition: The scales or bracts on the receptacle, which subtend each flower in the heads of many Compositæ, as the sunflower.

Definition: To make fun of; to turn into ridicule by addressing in ironical or bantering language; to quiz.

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