Buffet
['bʊfeɪ;'bʌfeɪ] or [bə'fe]
Definition
(noun.) a piece of furniture that stands at the side of a dining room; has shelves and drawers.
(noun.) a meal set out on a buffet at which guests help themselves.
(verb.) strike, beat repeatedly; 'The wind buffeted him'.
(verb.) strike against forcefully; 'Winds buffeted the tent'.
Typed by Dave--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A cupboard or set of shelves, either movable or fixed at one side of a room, for the display of plate, china, etc., a sideboard.
(n.) A counter for refreshments; a restaurant at a railroad station, or place of public gathering.
(v. i.) A blow with the hand; a slap on the face; a cuff.
(v. i.) A blow from any source, or that which affects like a blow, as the violence of winds or waves; a stroke; an adverse action; an affliction; a trial; adversity.
(v. i.) A small stool; a stool for a buffet or counter.
(v. t.) To strike with the hand or fist; to box; to beat; to cuff; to slap.
(v. t.) To affect as with blows; to strike repeatedly; to strive with or contend against; as, to buffet the billows.
(v. t.) To deaden the sound of (bells) by muffling the clapper.
(v. i.) To exercise or play at boxing; to strike; to smite; to strive; to contend.
(v. i.) To make one's way by blows or struggling.
Inputed by Brice
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Slap, box, knock, rap, blow, cuff.[2]. Cupboard.
v. a. [1]. Beat, box, strike, smite, cuff.[2]. Struggle against, contend against.
Checked by Debbie
Definition
n. a blow with the fist a slap.—v.t. to strike with the hand or fist: to contend against.—n. Buff′eting a striking with the hand boxing: contention.
n. a kind of sideboard: a low stool: a refreshment-bar (in this sense often pronounced buf'ā).
Inputed by Delia
Examples
- The Friar bared his brawny arm up to the elbow, and putting his full strength to the blow, gave the Knight a buffet that might have felled an ox. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- He had stood by Whitney through thick and thin, and had met one buffet after another. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- They buffet with opposing waves, to gain the bloody shore, not to recede from it. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- The Priest, said Clement, is not half so confident of the Jew's conversion, since he received that buffet on the ear. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- The question now is whether we should take a premature lunch here, or run our chance of starving before we reach the buffet at Newhaven. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- Truly, friend, said the Friar, clenching his huge fist, I will bestow a buffet on thee. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- It seemed to me that he took all blows and buffets now with just the same air as he had taken mine then. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- His opponent was the son of his principal warder, and was so imprudent as to give the challenge to this barter of buffets. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Was he alone, that long night, whose brave, loving spirit was bearing up, in that old shed, against buffeting and brutal stripes? Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Behold us now in our frail tenement, hemmed in by hungry, roaring waves, buffeted by winds. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Was it you, thus buffeted as you lie here in a heap? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Suddenly everything around him seemed to fade, and a vision rose before him of one crowned with thorns, buffeted and bleeding. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- But what was that--that old gray head that rose above the water's surface, and with looks of agony, and screams for aid, buffeted with the waves! Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
Typist: Michael