Buffer

Quick meaning: Buffer is a noun meaning Someone or something that buffs (polishes and makes shiny).

Meaning

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

More Meanings

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

Example Sentences

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

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

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

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.

Word Forms

• buffers
• buffering
• buffered

Synonyms for buffer

Depending on context, synonyms include pilot, cushion, fender, soften, polisher, cowcatcher.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include polisher, cushion, fender, cowcatcher, pilot, soften.

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