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buffer
English
Etymology
Agent noun from obsolete verb buff (“make a dull sound when struck”) (mid-16c.), from Old French buffe (“blow”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?b?f?(?)/, [?b?f?(?)]
- (General American) IPA(key): /?b?f?/
- (General Australian) IPA(key): /?baf?(?)/, [?bäf?(?)]
- Rhymes: -?f?(r)
Noun
buffer (plural buffers)
- Someone or something that buffs.
- A machine with rotary brushes, passed over a hard floor to clean it.
- A machine for polishing shoes and boots.
- (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 transport) A device on trains and carriages designed to cushion the impact between them.
- 1885, W. S. Gilbert, The Mikado, Act II, in The Mikado, and Other Plays, New York: Modern Library, 1917, p. 42, [1]
- The idiot who, in railway carriages, / Scribbles on window panes, / We only suffer / To ride on a buffer / In Parliamentary trains.
- 1953, C. S. Lewis, The Silver Chair, Collins, 1998, Chapter 14,
- Then, with a shock like a thousand goods trains crashing into a thousand pairs of buffers, the lips of rock closed.
- 1885, W. S. Gilbert, The Mikado, Act II, in The Mikado, and Other Plays, New York: Modern Library, 1917, p. 42, [1]
- (rail transport) 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.
- 1955, C. S. Lewis, The Magician's Nephew, Collins, 1998, Chapter 1,
- I can’t expect two youngsters like you to find it much fun talking to an old buffer like me.
- 1955, C. S. Lewis, The Magician's Nephew, Collins, 1998, Chapter 1,
- (figuratively) A gap that isolates or separates two things.
- (Britain, nautical, slang) The chief bosun's mate.
- 2001, Mark Higgitt, Through Fire and Water (page 43)
- He decided to run for president of the POs' Mess against the Buffer, Chief Bosun's Mate Mal Crane, but the two had a face-to-face in his cabin one night in Narvik and sorted it out.
- 2015, Peter Broadbent, A Singapore Fling: An AB's Far-Flung Adventure
- I happen to be on the brow handing my Bosun's Mate duties over to an Ordinary Seaman when the Buffer arrives with an unofficial Side-Party to man the brow with Bosun's Calls at the ready.
- 2001, Mark Higgitt, Through Fire and Water (page 43)
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
buffer (third-person singular simple present buffers, present participle buffering, simple past and past participle buffered)
- To use a buffer or buffers; to isolate or minimize the effects of one thing on another.
- (computing) To store data in memory temporarily.
- (chemistry) To maintain the acidity of a solution near a chosen value by adding an acid or a base.
Translations
Adjective
buffer
- comparative form of buff: more buff
Related terms
- bufferize
- buffer lass
- buffer up
- buffer zone
Anagrams
- rebuff
Danish
Etymology
From English buffer.
Noun
buffer c (singular definite bufferen, plural indefinite buffere)
- (chemistry) buffer
Declension
Synonyms
- puffer
Further reading
- “buffer” in Den Danske Ordbog
Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from English buffer.
Noun
buffer m (invariable)
- (computing) buffer
- Synonym: memoria tampone
Portuguese
Etymology
Borrowed from English buffer.
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /?b?.fe?/
Noun
buffer m (plural buffers)
- (computing) buffer (memory for temporary storage)
Romansch
Alternative forms
- (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan) buffar
- (Sutsilvan) bufar
- (Vallader) boffar
Etymology
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Verb
buffer
- (Puter) to blow
Synonyms
- (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan) sufflar
- (Sutsilvan, Surmiran) zuflar
- (Puter) zufler
- (Vallader) sofflar
Spanish
Noun
buffer m (plural buffers)
- (computing) buffer
Westrobothnian
Verb
buffer
- Alternative form of bufför
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clash
English
Etymology
Onomatopoeic origin. Compare German klatschen (“to clap, smack, slap”) and Klatsch (“a clapping sound; the din resulting from two or more things colliding”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /kla?/, /klæ?/
- (US) IPA(key): /klæ?/
- Rhymes: -æ?
Noun
clash (countable and uncountable, plural clashes)
- (onomatopoeia) A loud sound, like the crashing together of metal objects.
- I heard a clash from the kitchen, and rushed in to find the cat had knocked over some pots and pans.
- (military) A skirmish, a hostile encounter.
- (sports) a match; a game between two sides.
- An angry argument
- Opposition; contradiction; such as between differing or contending interests, views, purposes etc.
- a clash of beliefs
- a personality clash
- A combination of garments that do not look good together, especially because of conflicting colours.
- She was wearing a horrible clash of red and orange.
- (hurling) An instance of restarting the game after a "dead ball", where it is dropped between two opposing players, who can fight for possession.
- (Scotland) Chatter; gossip; idle talk.
Translations
Verb
clash (third-person singular simple present clashes, present participle clashing, simple past and past participle clashed)
- (intransitive) To make a clashing sound.
- The cymbals clashed.
- (transitive) To cause to make a clashing sound.
- To come into violent conflict.
- Fans from opposing teams clashed on the streets after the game.
- (intransitive) To argue angrily.
- My parents often clashed about minor things, such as the cleaning or shopping rota.
- (intransitive, in games or sports) To face each other in an important game.
- (intransitive, of clothes, decor, colours) To fail to look good together; to contrast unattractively; to fail to harmonize.
- You can't wear that shirt! It clashes with your trousers.
- The hotel room was ugly, and the wallpaper clashed with the carpet.
- (intransitive, of events) To coincide, to happen at the same time, thereby rendering it impossible to attend all.
- I can't come to your wedding because it clashes with a friend's funeral.
- I wanted to take German, but it clashed with art on the timetable.
- (intransitive, Scotland) To chatter or gossip.
Translations
Related terms
- clashy
- electroclash
- soundclash
Anagrams
- chals
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