Meaning

Someone or something that buffs (polishes and makes shiny)..

Definitions by Sense

1. Someone or something that buffs (polishes and makes shiny).
2. (slang, archaic, Ireland) A boxer.
3. Comparative form of buff: more buff.
4. Anything used to isolate or minimize the effect of one thing on another.
5. (UK, nautical, slang) The chief boatswain's mate.
6. To use a buffer or buffers; to isolate or minimize the effects of one thing on another.
7. (transitive or intransitive, computing) To store (data) in memory temporarily while it is awaiting processing.
8. (chemistry) To maintain the acidity of a solution near a chosen value by adding an acid or a base.

Example Sentences

Such a buffer as Donnelly, / Ereland never again will see.

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.

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.

The electronic apparatus is designed to buffer up the sorted wagons in the sidings at a speed not exceeding 4.7 m.p.h.—a particularly important provision in this yard, with its substantial traffic in whisky.

Lastly, the looking-glass reflects Boots and Brewer, and two other stuffed Buffers interposed between the rest of the company and possible accidents.

Here, too, are Boots and Brewer, and the two other Buffers; each Buffer with a flower in his button-hole, his hair curled, and his gloves buttoned on tight, apparently come prepared, if anything had happened to the bridegroom, to be married instantly.

I can’t expect two youngsters like you to find it much fun talking to an old buffer like me.

Who does not remember that adorable little dog, and that last Christmas season at Olympia, when the Whimmy we had all loved had been dead a month or so, and his buffer ran disconsolately round the circus, pining […]

Word Forms

• buffers
• buffering
• buffered

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