What's the difference between
and
Enter two words to compare and contrast their definitions, origins, and synonyms to better understand how those words are related.

Buff vs Sandwich - What's the difference?

buff | sandwich |

As an acronym buff

is (slang|us|air force) big ugly fat fellow (or fucker); us airforce nickname for the b-52 bomber.

As a noun sandwich is

sandwich.

buff

English

Etymology 1

From .

Noun

(en noun)
  • Undyed leather from the skin of buffalo or similar animals.
  • * Shakespeare
    • a suit of buff
  • A tool, often one covered with buff leather, used for polishing.
  • A brownish yellow colour.
  • * Dryden
    • a visage rough, deformed, unfeatured, and a skin of buff
  • A military coat made of buff leather.
    • (Shakespeare)
  • (informal) A person who is very interested in a particular subject; an enthusiast.
    • He’s a history buff .
  • (gaming) An effect that temporally makes a gaming character stronger.
  • (rail transport) Compressive coupler force that occurs during a slack bunched condition.
  • The bare skin.
    • to strip to the buff
  • * Wright
    • To be in buff is equivalent to being naked.
  • The greyish viscid substance constituting the buffy coat.
  • A substance used to dilute (street) drugs in order to increase profits.
  • * Police said the 20 ton hydraulic jack was used to press mixtures of cocaine and "buff" into bricks. (CBC)
    • Derived terms
    * in the buff
    Antonyms
    * (video games) debuff * (video games) nerf

    Adjective

    (en-adj)
  • Of the color of buff leather, a brownish yellow.
  • (bodybuilding): Unusually muscular. (also buffed'' or ''buffed out )
    • The bouncer was a big, buff dude with tattoos, a shaved head, and a serious scowl.
  • * 1994 , Blurred Boundaries: Questions of Meaning in Contemporary Culture , page 155:
    • The appearance of logic often derives from faulty syllogisms such as Sgt. Koon's conclusion that King was an ex-con because he was "buffed out " (heavily muscled). The thinking is: "ex-cons are often buffed out; this man is buffed out; therefore, this man is an ex-con."
  • (slang) attractive.
    • Derived terms
    * buff-tip moth * buffly

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To polish and make shiny by rubbing.
  • (gaming) To make a character stronger.
    • The enchanter buffed the paladin to prepare him to fight the dragon.
    Derived terms
    * buff out * buff up * buff wheel

    Synonyms

    * (to make smooth and shiny by rubbing) wax, shine, polish, furbish, burnish
    Antonyms
    * (video games) debuff * (video games) nerf

    See also

    *

    Etymology 2

    (etyl) .

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To strike.
    • (Ben Jonson)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) A buffet; a blow.
  • * Spenser
    • Nathless so sore a buff to him it lent / That made him reel.
    Derived terms
    * blind man's buff

    sandwich

    English

    (wikipedia sandwich) (Structured composite sandwich)

    Noun

    (es)
  • A dish or foodstuff where two or more slices of bread serve as the wrapper or container of some other food.
  • (by extension) Any combination formed by layering one type of material between two layers of some other material.

    • Synonyms

    * See

    Hyponyms

    * hamburger, burger * -burger * patty melt

    Derived terms

    {{der3, club sandwich , Dagwood sandwich , Dutch sandwich , knuckle sandwich , open sandwich , sandwich spread , sandwich board , sandwichable , sandwichy , soup sandwich}}

    Descendants

    * Arabic: * Catalan: (l) * Chinese: *: Mandarin: * Czech: * Danish: (l) * Dutch: (l) * English: (l) (eye dialect) * Esperanto: * French: (l) *: Norman French: (l) * German: (l) * Greek: * Hawaiian: (l) * Hindi: * Hungarian: (l) * Japanese: * Jèrriais: (l) * Korean: * Marshallese: * Norwegian: (l) * Persian: * Portuguese: (Brazil), (l) (Portugal) * Romanian: * Russian: * Serbo-Croatian: *: Cyrillic: *: Roman: * Sinhalese: * Slovene: * Spanish: * Swedish: (l) * Turkish: * Urdu: * Vietnamese: * Volapük:

    Verb

    (es)
  • To place one item between two other, usually flat, items
  • (figuratively) To put or set something between two others, in time.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=April 11 , author=Phil McNulty , title=Liverpool 3 - 0 Man City , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=Dirk Kuyt sandwiched a goal in between Carroll's double as City endured a night of total misery, with captain Carlos Tevez limping off early on with a hamstring strain that puts a serious question mark over his participation in Saturday's FA Cup semi-final against Manchester United at Wembley. }}

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (US) Of a meal or serving size that is smaller than a dinner.

    • Usage notes

    * The adjective sense is used primarily by restaurants specializing in barbeque, and does not imply that the meal includes an actual sandwich. English eponyms English refractory feminine rhymes ----