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  2. Winnowing - Wikipedia

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    Winnowing is a process by which chaff is separated from grain. It can also be used to remove pests from stored grain. Winnowing usually follows threshing in grain preparation. In its simplest form, it involves throwing the mixture into the air so that the wind blows away the lighter chaff, while the heavier grains fall back down for recovery.

  3. Chaffing and winnowing - Wikipedia

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    The sender wants to send a message to the receiver ().In the simplest setup, Alice enumerates the symbols in her message and sends out each in a separate packet.If the symbols are complex enough, such as natural language text, an attacker may be able to distinguish the real symbols from poorly faked chaff symbols, posing a similar problem as steganography in needing to generate highly ...

  4. Threshing - Wikipedia

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    This consisted of tossing the mixture of corn and chaff into the air so that the wind carried away the chaff while the grain fell back on the threshing floor. The best grain fell nearest while the lightest grain was carried some distance before falling, thus an approximate grading of the grain was obtained.

  5. Crossword abbreviations - Wikipedia

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    Taking this one stage further, the clue word can hint at the word or words to be abbreviated rather than giving the word itself. For example: "About" for C or CA (for "circa"), or RE. "Say" for EG, used to mean "for example". More obscure clue words of this variety include: "Model" for T, referring to the Model T.

  6. Threshing board - Wikipedia

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    Top view of a Spanish threshing board Bottom view of a Spanish threshing board. A threshing board, also known as threshing sledge, [1] is an obsolete agricultural implement used to separate cereals from their straw; that is, to thresh.

  7. Crossword - Wikipedia

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    An American-style 15×15 crossword grid layout. A crossword (or crossword puzzle) is a word game consisting of a grid of black and white squares, into which solvers enter words or phrases ("entries") crossing each other horizontally ("across") and vertically ("down") according to a set of clues. Each white square is typically filled with one ...

  8. Woman Can't Bear to Separate Precious 'Yin Yang' Cats Who ...

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    The cats in this video were bonded at the shelter, and though they could not look more different, their new mom realized that she couldn’t bear to separate them. One is totally black and the ...

  9. Chaff (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

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    Chaff is dry inedible plant material. Chaff may also refer to: Chaff (countermeasure), a radar countermeasure for aircraft or other targets; Chaff algorithm, an algorithm for solving instances of the boolean satisfiability problem; Chaffing and winnowing, a method in cryptography to protect a message without encryption