Buffer vs Buffet - What's the difference?
buffer | buffet |
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"
* {{quote-book, year=1864-1865
, author=Charles Dickens
, title=Our Mutual Friend
, chapter=Book The First, chapter 10 "A Marriage Contract"
(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
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)
A counter or sideboard from which food and drinks are served or may be bought.
*
Food laid out in this way, to which diners serve themselves.
A small stool; a stool for a buffet or counter.
* Townely Myst
A blow or cuff with or as if with the hand, or by any other solid object or the wind.
* Sir Walter Scott
* Burke
* {{quote-book, year=1960
, author=
, title=(Jeeves in the Offing)
, section=chapter VII and XIV
, passage=Kipper stood blinking, as I had sometimes seen him do at the boxing tourneys in which he indulged when in receipt of a shrewd buffet on some tender spot like the tip of the nose.}}
To strike with a buffet; to cuff; to slap.
* Bible, Matthew xxvi. 67
(figurative) to aggressively challenge, denounce, or criticise.
* 2013 May 23, , "
To affect as with blows; to strike repeatedly; to strive with or contend against.
* Broome
* W. Black
To deaden the sound of (bells) by muffling the clapper.
A low stool; a hassock.
English heteronyms
English terms with multiple etymologies
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As nouns the difference between buffer and buffet
is that buffer is someone or something that buffs while buffet is a counter or sideboard from which food and drinks are served or may be bought.As verbs the difference between buffer and buffet
is that buffer is to use a buffer or buffers; to isolate or minimize the effects of one thing on another while buffet is to strike with a buffet; to cuff; to slap.As an adjective buffer
is comparative of buff.buffer
English
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. }}
Derived terms
* direct buffer * non-direct bufferVerb
(en verb)Adjective
(head)Anagrams
* ----buffet
English
Etymology 1
(wikipedia buffet) .Noun
(en noun)- They stayed together during three dances, went out on to the terrace, explored wherever they were permitted to explore, paid two visits to the buffet , and enjoyed themselves much in the same way as if they had been school-children surreptitiously breaking loose from an assembly of grown-ups.
- Go fetch us a light buffet .
Synonyms
* (food ): buffet meal, smorgasbordEtymology 2
Old French '', diminutive of ''buffe'', cognate with Italian ''buffetto''. See buffer''', '''buffoon , and compare German ''puffen , to jostle, to hustleNoun
(en noun)- On his cheek a buffet fell.
- those planks of tough and hardy oak that used for years to brave the buffets of the Bay of Biscay
Synonyms
* (blow''): blow, collision (''by any solid object''), cuff (''with the hand )Verb
- They spit in his face and buffeted him.
British Leader’s Liberal Turn Sets Off a Rebellion in His Party," New York Times (retrieved 29 May 2013):
- Buffeted by criticism of his policy on Europe, battered by rebellion in the ranks over his bill to legalize same-sex marriage and wounded by the perception that he is supercilious, contemptuous and out of touch with mainstream Conservatism, Mr. Cameron earlier this week took the highly unusual step of sending a mass e-mail (or, as he called it, “a personal note”) to his party’s grass-roots members.
- to buffet the billows
- The sudden hurricane in thunder roars, / Buffets the bark, and whirls it from the shores.
- You are lucky fellows who can live in a dreamland of your own, instead of being buffeted about the world.