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. }}

Noun

(en noun)

A thin, human-constructed barrier which separates two pieces of land or a house perimeter.

*1865 , (Horatio Alger), , Ch.XVII:

*:There was a weak place in the fence separating the two inclosures

*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-08, volume=407, issue=8839, page=52, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= The new masters and commanders , passage=From the ground, Colombo’s port does not look like much. Those entering it are greeted by wire fences , walls dating back to colonial times and security posts. For mariners leaving the port after lonely nights on the high seas, the delights of the B52 Night Club and Stallion Pub lie a stumble away.}}

A middleman for transactions of stolen goods.

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*:The Bat—they called him the Bat.. He'd never been in stir, the bulls had never mugged him, he didn't run with a mob, he played a lone hand, and fenced his stuff so that even the fence couldn't swear he knew his face.

#The place whence such a middleman operates.

Skill in oral debate.

The art or practice of fencing.

*1599 , (William Shakespeare), ,

*:I bruised my shin th' other day with playing at sword and dagger with a master of fence

A guard or guide on machinery.

(lb) A barrier, for example an emotional barrier.

*1980 , (ABBA), (The Winner Takes It All)

I was in your arms / Thinking I belonged there

A memory barrier.