Smite vs Buffet - What's the difference?
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(lb) To hit.
*(Bible), (w) v.39:
*:Whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also.
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*:It was April 22, 1831, and a young man was walking down Whitehall in the direction of Parliament Street.. He halted opposite the Privy Gardens, and, with his face turned skywards, listened until the sound of the Tower guns smote again on the ear and dispelled his doubts.
*1918 , (Edgar Rice Burroughs), , Ch.IV:
*:"Right you are!" I cried. "We must believe the other until we prove it false. We can't afford to give up heart now, when we need heart most. The branch was carried down by a river, and we are going to find that river." I smote my open palm with a clenched fist, to emphasize a determination unsupported by hope.
To strike down or kill with godly force.
To injure with divine power.
To put to rout in battle; to overthrow by war.
To afflict; to chasten; to punish.
*(William Wake) (1657-1737)
*:Let us not mistake God's goodness, nor imagine, because he smites us, that we are forsaken by him.
To strike with love or infatuation.
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*(Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)
*:the charms that smite the simple heart
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
* {{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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Smite is a related term of buffet.
As a verb smite
is (lb) to hit.As a noun buffet is
buffet.smite
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Verb
Anagrams
* (l), (l), (l), (l), , (l), (l), (l), (l) ----buffet
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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.