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Rebuff vs Rebuffer - What's the difference?

rebuff | rebuffer |

As nouns the difference between rebuff and rebuffer

is that rebuff is a sudden resistance or refusal while rebuffer is one who, or that which, rebuffs.

As verbs the difference between rebuff and rebuffer

is that rebuff is to refuse; to offer sudden or harsh resistance; to turn down or shut out while rebuffer is (computing) to buffer (data) again.

rebuff

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A sudden resistance or refusal.
    • He was surprised by her quick rebuff to his proposal.
  • Repercussion, or beating back.
  • * Milton
    • the strong rebuff of some tumultuous cloud

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To refuse; to offer sudden or harsh resistance; to turn down or shut out.
  • To buff again.

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    rebuffer

    English

    Etymology 1

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One who, or that which, rebuffs.
  • * 2001 , Leonard Sweet, Soultsunami: Sink Or Swim in New Millennium Culture
    • One of the church's great roles is as the great dissenter of every age, the bearer of unwelcome truths, the rebuffer of the wisdoms of the world.

    Etymology 2

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (computing) To buffer (data) again.
  • * 2005 , Stephen B. Weinstein, The multimedia Internet
    • This avoids client-side buffer underflows and rebuffering interruptions.