buff : Idioms & Phrases

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blindman's buff

  • noun a children's game in which a blindfolded player tries to catch and identify other players
    blindman's bluff.
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Blind"man's buff"
Etymology
See Buff a buffet.
Definitions
  1. A play in which one person is blindfolded, and tries to catch some one of the company and tell who it is.
    Surely he fancies I play at blindman's buff with him, for he thinks I never have my eyes open. Stillingfleet.
Webster 1913

Buff coat

  • a close, military outer garment, with short sleeves, and laced tightly over the chest, made of buffalo skin, or other thick and elastic material, worn by soldiers in the 17th century as a defensive covering.
Webster 1913

Buff jerkin

  • originally, a leather waistcoat; afterward, one of cloth of a buff color. Obs. Nares.
Webster 1913

Buff stick

  • (Mech.), a strip of wood covered with buff leather, used in polishing.
Webster 1913

buff-brown

  • adjective satellite of brown tinged with buff
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buff-colored

  • adjective satellite having a buff color
    buff-colored.
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buff-coloured

  • adjective satellite having a buff color
    buff-colored.
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buffer country

  • noun a small neutral state between two rival powers
    buffer country.
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buffer solution

  • noun a solution containing a buffer
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buffer state

  • noun a small neutral state between two rival powers
    buffer country.
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buffer storage

  • noun (computer science) a part of RAM used for temporary storage of data that is waiting to be sent to a device; used to compensate for differences in the rate of flow of data between components of a computer system
    buffer; buffer storage.
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buffer store

  • noun (computer science) a part of RAM used for temporary storage of data that is waiting to be sent to a device; used to compensate for differences in the rate of flow of data between components of a computer system
    buffer; buffer storage.
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buffer zone

  • noun a neutral zone between two rival powers that is created in order to diminish the danger of conflict
    buffer.
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buffing apparatus

Buff"ing ap`pa*ra"tus
Definitions
  1. See Buffer, 1.
Webster 1913

buffing wheel

  • noun a wheel that is covered with soft material
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frame buffer

  • noun (computer science) a buffer that stores the contents of an image pixel by pixel
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in the buff

  • adjective satellite (used informally) completely unclothed
    bare-assed; bare-ass; stark naked; naked as a jaybird; peeled; raw; in the altogether; in the raw.
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keyboard buffer

  • noun a buffer that keeps track of key strokes until the computer is ready to respond to them
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phosphate buffer solution

  • noun a solution containing a phosphate buffer
    PBS.
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  • noun a buffer that stores data until the printer is ready
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starting buffer

  • noun buffer solution at the start of a reaction
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