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Baffle vs Buffer - What's the difference?

baffle | buffer |

As verbs the difference between baffle and buffer

is that baffle is to publicly disgrace, especially of a recreant knight while buffer is to use a buffer or buffers; to isolate or minimize the effects of one thing on another.

As nouns the difference between baffle and buffer

is that baffle is a device used to dampen the effects of such things as sound, light, or fluid. Specifically, a baffle is a surface which is placed inside an open area to inhibit direct motion from one part to another, without preventing motion altogether while buffer is someone or something that buffs.

As an adjective buffer is

comparative of buff.

baffle

English

Verb

(baffl)
  • (obsolete) To publicly disgrace, especially of a recreant knight.
  • * 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , VI.7:
    • He by the heeles him hung upon a tree, / And baffuld so, that all which passed by / The picture of his punishment might see […].
  • (obsolete) To hoodwink or deceive (someone).
    • (Barrow)
  • To bewilder completely; to confuse or perplex.
    • I am baffled by the contradictions and omissions in the instructions.
  • * Prescott
    • calculations so difficult as to have baffled , until within a recent period, the most enlightened nations
  • * John Locke
    • The mere intricacy of a question should not baffle us.
  • * Cowper
    • the art that baffles time's tyrannic claim
  • * South
    • a suitable scripture ready to repel and baffle them all
  • To struggle in vain.
    • A ship baffles with the winds.

    Synonyms

    * See also

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A device used to dampen the effects of such things as sound, light, or fluid. Specifically, a baffle is a surface which is placed inside an open area to inhibit direct motion from one part to another, without preventing motion altogether.
    • Tanker trucks use baffles to keep the liquids inside from sloshing around.
  • An architectural feature designed to confuse enemies or make them vulnerable.

    • buffer

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Someone or something that buffs.
  • (chemistry) A solution used to stabilize the pH (acidity) of a liquid.
  • (computing) A portion of memory set aside to store data, often before it is sent to an external device or as it is received from an external device.
  • (mechanical ) Anything used to maintain slack or isolate different objects.
  • (telecommunications) A routine or storage medium used to compensate for a difference in rate of flow of data, or time of occurrence of events, when transferring data from one device to another.
  • (rail) A device on trains and carriages designed to cushion the impact between them.
  • (rail) The metal barrier to help prevent trains from running off the end of the track.
  • An isolating circuit, often an amplifier, used to minimize the influence of a driven circuit on the driving circuit.
  • (politics, international relations) A buffer zone (such as a demilitarized zone) or a buffer state.
  • (colloquial) A good-humoured, slow-witted fellow, usually an elderly man.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1864-1865
    • , author=Charles Dickens , title=Our Mutual Friend , chapter=Book The First, chapter 2 "The Man from Somewhere" citation , passage=Lastly, the looking-glass reflects Boots and Brewer, and two other stuffed Buffers interposed between the rest of the company and possible accidents.}}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1864-1865
    • , author=Charles Dickens , title=Our Mutual Friend , chapter=Book The First, chapter 10 "A Marriage Contract" citation , passage=Here, too, are Boots and Brewer, and the two other Buffers; each Buffer with a flower in his button-hole, his hair curled, and his gloves buttoned on tight, apparently come prepared, if anything had happened to the bridegroom, to be married instantly.}}
  • (figurative) A gap that isolates or separates two things.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2011
    • , date=November 10 , author=Jeremy Wilson , title=England Under 21 5 Iceland Under 21 0: match report , work=Telegraph citation , page= , passage=An utterly emphatic 5-0 victory was ultimately capped by two wonder strikes in the last two minutes from Aston Villa midfielder Gary Gardner. Before that, England had utterly dominated to take another purposeful stride towards the 2013 European Championship in Israel. They have already established a five-point buffer at the top of Group Eight. }}

    Derived terms

    * direct buffer * non-direct buffer

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To use a buffer or buffers; to isolate or minimize the effects of one thing on another.
  • (computing) To store data in memory temporarily.

    • Adjective

    (head)
  • (buff)

    • Related terms

    * bufferize * buffer lass * buffer up * buffer zone

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