Buffed vs Buffer - What's the difference?
buffed | buffer |
(buff)
Undyed leather from the skin of buffalo or similar animals.
* Shakespeare
A tool, often one covered with buff leather, used for polishing.
A brownish yellow colour.
* Dryden
A military coat made of buff leather.
(informal) A person who is very interested in a particular subject; an enthusiast.
(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.
* Wright
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)
Of the color of buff leather, a brownish yellow.
(bodybuilding): Unusually muscular. (also buffed'' or ''buffed out )
* 1994 , Blurred Boundaries: Questions of Meaning in Contemporary Culture , page 155:
(slang) attractive.
To polish and make shiny by rubbing.
(gaming) To make a character stronger.
(obsolete) A buffet; a blow.
* Spenser
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.
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(figurative) A gap that isolates or separates two things.
* {{quote-news, year=2011
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To use a buffer or buffers; to isolate or minimize the effects of one thing on another.
(computing) To store data in memory temporarily.
(buff)
As verbs the difference between buffed and buffer
is that buffed is past tense of buff while buffer is to use a buffer or buffers; to isolate or minimize the effects of one thing on another.As a noun buffer is
someone or something that buffs.As an adjective buffer is
comparative of buff.buffed
English
Verb
(head)Anagrams
*buff
English
Etymology 1
From .Noun
(en noun)- a suit of buff
- a visage rough, deformed, unfeatured, and a skin of buff
- (Shakespeare)
- He’s a history buff .
- to strip to the buff
- To be in buff is equivalent to being naked.
Derived terms
* in the buffAntonyms
* (video games) debuff * (video games) nerfAdjective
(en-adj)- The bouncer was a big, buff dude with tattoos, a shaved head, and a serious scowl.
- 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."
Derived terms
* buff-tip moth * bufflyVerb
(en verb)- The enchanter buffed the paladin to prepare him to fight the dragon.
Derived terms
* buff out * buff up * buff wheelSynonyms
* (to make smooth and shiny by rubbing) wax, shine, polish, furbish, burnishAntonyms
* (video games) debuff * (video games) nerfSee also
*Etymology 2
(etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- Nathless so sore a buff to him it lent / That made him reel.
Derived terms
* blind man's buffbuffer
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Noun
(en noun)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.}}
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.}}
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. }}