Buffet vs Bank - What's the difference?
buffet | bank | Synonyms |
A counter or sideboard from which food and drinks are served or may be bought.
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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
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, 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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An institution where one can place and borrow money and take care of financial affairs.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-01, volume=407, issue=8838, page=71, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= A branch office of such an institution.
An underwriter or controller of a card game; also banque .
A fund from deposits or contributions, to be used in transacting business; a joint stock or capital.
* Francis Bacon
(gambling) The sum of money etc. which the dealer or banker has as a fund from which to draw stakes and pay losses.
In certain games, such as dominos, a fund of pieces from which the players are allowed to draw.
A safe and guaranteed place of storage for and retrieval of important items or goods.
A device used to store coins or currency.
To deal with a bank or financial institution.
To put into a bank .
(hydrology) An edge of river, lake, or other watercourse.
* Shakespeare
* 2014 , Ian Jack, "
(nautical, hydrology) An elevation, or rising ground, under the sea; a shallow area of shifting sand, gravel, mud, and so forth (for example, a sandbank or mudbank).
(geography) A slope of earth, sand, etc.; an embankment.
(aviation) The incline of an aircraft, especially during a turn.
(rail transport) An incline, a hill.
A mass noun for a quantity of clouds.
(mining) The face of the coal at which miners are working.
(mining) A deposit of ore or coal, worked by excavations above water level.
(mining) The ground at the top of a shaft.
(aviation) To roll or incline laterally in order to turn.
To cause (an aircraft) to bank .
To form into a bank or heap, to bank up.
To cover the embers of a fire with ashes in order to retain heat.
To raise a mound or dike about; to enclose, defend, or fortify with a bank; to embank.
* Holland
(obsolete) To pass by the banks of.
A row or panel of items stored or grouped together.
* {{quote-news, year=2011
, date=December 10
, author=Marc Higginson
, title=Bolton 1 - 2 Aston Villa
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A row of keys on a musical keyboard or the equivalent on a typewriter keyboard.
A bench, as for rowers in a galley; also, a tier of oars.
* Waller
A bench or seat for judges in court.
The regular term of a court of law, or the full court sitting to hear arguments upon questions of law, as distinguished from a sitting at nisi prius, or a court held for jury trials. See banc.
(archaic, printing) A kind of table used by printers.
(music) A bench, or row of keys belonging to a keyboard, as in an organ.
(uncountable) slang for money
Buffet is a synonym of bank.
As nouns the difference between buffet and bank
is that buffet is buffet while bank is bench, pew.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.
Etymology 3
Old French, of unknown origin.Noun
(en noun)bank
English
Alternative forms
* (all obsolete)Etymology 1
From (etyl) banke, from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)End of the peer show, passage=Finance is seldom romantic. But the idea of peer-to-peer lending comes close. This is an industry that brings together individual savers and lenders on online platforms.
- Let it be no bank or common stock, but every man be master of his own money.
- If you want to buy a bicycle, you need to put the money in your piggy bank .
Synonyms
* (controller of a card game) bankerDerived terms
* bankability * bankable * bank account * bank agent * bank balance * bank bill * bank book * bank card * bank charges * bank cheque * bank clerk * bank draft * banker * bank giro * bank holiday * bank interest * bank loan * bank manager * banknote * bank of deposit * bank of issue * bank paper * bank rate * bank reserves * bank statement * bank stock * blood bank * bottle bank * break the bank * banking * bankroll * central bank * clearing bank * cry all the way to the bank * databank * food bank * investment bank * * joint-stock bank * laugh all the way to the bank * memory bank * merchant bank * national bank * peat bank * penny bank * piggy bank * pot bank * prime bank * private bank * reserve bank * savings bank * sperm bank * spoil bank * state bank * stopbank * take it to the bank * trustee savings bank * World BankVerb
(en verb)- He banked with Barclays.
- I'm going to bank the money.
Derived terms
* bank onEtymology 2
(etyl) banke, from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- Tiber trembled underneath her banks .
Is this the end of Britishness", The Guardian , 16 September 2014:
- Just upstream of Dryburgh Abbey, a reproduction of a classical Greek temple stands at the top of a wooded hillock on the river’s north bank .
- the banks of Newfoundland
- The bank of clouds on the horizon announced the arrival of the predicted storm front.
- Ores are brought to bank .
Derived terms
* bank up * clay-bank * cloud bank * embank * embankment * land bank * Left Bank * left-bank * oyster bank * right-bank * river bank * sand bank * sea bank * West BankVerb
(en verb)- to bank sand
- banked well with earth
- (Shakespeare)
Etymology 3
(etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- a bank of switches
- a bank of pay phones
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Etymology 4
Probably from (etyl) banc. Of German origin, and akin to English bench.Noun
(en noun)- Placed on their banks , the lusty Trojans sweep / Neptune's smooth face, and cleave the yielding deep.
- (Burrill)
- (Knight)