Buffet vs Diet - What's the difference?

buffet | diet |

As a noun buffet

is buffet.

As an abbreviation diet is

(microbiology).

buffet

English

Etymology 1

(wikipedia buffet) .

Noun

(en noun)

A counter or sideboard from which food and drinks are served or may be bought.

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.

Food laid out in this way, to which diners serve themselves.

A small stool; a stool for a buffet or counter.

* Townely Myst

Go fetch us a light buffet .

Synonyms

* (food ): buffet meal, smorgasbord

Etymology 2

Old French '', diminutive of ''buffe'', cognate with Italian ''buffetto''. See buffer''', '''buffoon , and compare German ''puffen , to jostle, to hustle

Noun

(en noun)

A blow or cuff with or as if with the hand, or by any other solid object or the wind.

* Sir Walter Scott

On his cheek a buffet fell.

* Burke

those planks of tough and hardy oak that used for years to brave the buffets of the Bay of Biscay

* {{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.}}

Synonyms

* (blow''): blow, collision (''by any solid object''), cuff (''with the hand )

Verb

To strike with a buffet; to cuff; to slap.

* Bible, Matthew xxvi. 67

They spit in his face and buffeted him.

(figurative) to aggressively challenge, denounce, or criticise.

* 2013 May 23, , " 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 affect as with blows; to strike repeatedly; to strive with or contend against.

to buffet the billows

* Broome

The sudden hurricane in thunder roars, / Buffets the bark, and whirls it from the shores.

* W. Black

You are lucky fellows who can live in a dreamland of your own, instead of being buffeted about the world.

To deaden the sound of (bells) by muffling the clapper.

Etymology 3

Old French, of unknown origin.

Noun

(en noun)

A low stool; a hassock.

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diet

English

(wikipedia diet)

Alternative forms

* (rare)

Noun

(en noun)

(senseid)The food and beverage a person or animal consumes.

The diet of the Giant Panda consists mainly of bamboo.

(countable) A controlled regimen of food and drink, as to gain or lose weight or otherwise influence health.

By extension, any habitual intake or consumption.

He's been reading a steady diet of nonfiction for the last several years.

(countable) A council or assembly of leaders; a formal deliberative assembly.

Derived terms

* dietarian * dietary * dieter * dietetics

Verb

(en verb)

To regulate the food of (someone); to put on a diet.

*, I.iii.1.2:

they will diet themselves, feed and live alone.

* Spenser

She diets him with fasting every day.

To modify one's food and beverage intake so as to decrease or increase body weight or influence health.

I've been dieting for six months, and have lost some weight.

(obsolete) To eat; to take one's meals.

* Francis Bacon

Let himdiet in such places, where there is good company of the nation, where he travelleth.

(obsolete) To cause to take food; to feed.

* Othello

But partly led to diet my revenge […].

Anagrams

* edit * tide * tied ----