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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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container
English
Etymology
From Middle English conteyner, equivalent to contain +? -er.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /k?n?te?n?/
- (General American) IPA(key): /k?n?te?n?/
- Rhymes: -e?n?(r)
Noun
container (plural containers)
- Someone who contains; something that contains.
- An item in which objects, materials or data can be stored or transported.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:container
- (transport) A very large, typically metal, box used for transporting goods.
- Synonyms: cargo container, shipping container
- (by extension) Someone who holds people in their seats or in a (reasonably) calm state.
- (computing) A file format that can hold various types of data.
- Synonym: container format
- (object-oriented programming) An abstract data type whose instances are collections of other objects.
- (computing, graphical user interface) Any user interface component that can hold further (child) components.
- (computing) A bundle consisting of operating system, application code and dependencies to be run sandboxed inside a virtualized environment; (by extension) the environment itself.
- Synonym: software container
Derived terms
Descendants
Translations
Further reading
- container on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- anorectin, cotarnine, crenation, narcotine
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from English container.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?k?n?te?.n?r/
- Hyphenation: con?tai?ner
- Rhymes: -e?n?r
Noun
container m (plural containers, diminutive containertje n)
- cargo container
- Synonym: vrachtcontainer
- dumpster or domestic recycling bin, large waste container
- Synonyms: afvalcontainer, vuilcontainer
Derived terms
- afvalcontainer
- containerbegrip
- containerhaven
- containerschip
- vuilcontainer
- vrachtcontainer
French
Etymology
From English container (during the 1920s).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /k??.t?.n??/
Noun
container f (plural containers)
- container
- Synonym: conteneur
Further reading
- “container” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Anagrams
- actionner, connaitre, connaître, encornait, reconnait, reconnaît, renonçait
Italian
Etymology
From English container.
Noun
container m (invariable)
- (cargo) container (a very large, typically metal, box used for transporting goods)
Derived terms
- containerizzare
Further reading
- container in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Norwegian Bokmål
Alternative forms
- konteiner
Etymology
From English container.
Noun
container m (definite singular containeren, indefinite plural containere, definite plural containerne)
- a container (large metal box for transporting goods)
Derived terms
- containerhavn
- containerskip
References
- “container” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Alternative forms
- konteinar
Etymology
From English container.
Noun
container m (definite singular containeren, indefinite plural containerar, definite plural containerane)
- a container (large metal box for transporting goods)
Derived terms
- containerskip
References
- “container” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Portuguese
Noun
container m (plural containers)
- Alternative spelling of contêiner
Spanish
Etymology
From English container.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kon?teine?/, [kõn??t?ei?.ne?]
Noun
container m (plural containers)
- container
- Synonym: contenedor
Further reading
- “container” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
Swedish
Etymology
From English container.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /k?n?t?jn?r/
Noun
container c
- container
Declension
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