Buffername

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  A surname

buffernoun詞源 1/ˈbʌfə/

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

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

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  archaicslangA boxer.

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

buffernoun詞源 2/ˈbʌfə/

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  chemistrynatural-sciencesphysical-sciencesAnything used to isolate or minimize the effect of one thing on another.

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  engineeringmechanical-engineeringmechanicsAnything used to isolate or minimize the effect of one thing on another.

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  rail-transportrailwaystransportAnything used to isolate or minimize the effect of one thing on another.

  • 1885, W. S. Gilbert, The Mikado, Act II, in The Mikado, and Other Plays, New York: Modern Library, 1917, p. 42, https://archive.org/details/mikadootherplays00gilb The idiot who, in railway carriages, / Scribbles on window panes, / We only suffer / To ride on a buffer / In Parliamentary trains.
  • The underframe, which has been designed to take buffing loads of 200 tons both on the centre coupler and on the retractable side buffers, consists of two centre girders from which cantilevers project to support the solebars, which in turn carry the bodyside structure.
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  rail-transportrailwaystransportAnything used to isolate or minimize the effect of one thing on another.

  • Of course, I was not always right. I questioned the value of Crossrail (a scheme revived by Prescott after being scrapped by the Conservatives), suggesting wrongly that it may be "doomed to hit the buffers" […]. A dozen years later, I published my book on it, extolling the line's wonders. We are all allowed to change our minds.
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  Anything used to isolate or minimize the effect of one thing on another.

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  communicationselectrical-engineeringengineeringAnything used to isolate or minimize the effect of one thing on another.

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  computingengineeringmathematicsAnything used to isolate or minimize the effect of one thing on another.

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  governmentpoliticsAnything used to isolate or minimize the effect of one thing on another.

bufferverb詞源 2/ˈbʌfə/

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  To use a buffer or buffers; to attempt to isolate or minimize the effects of one thing or another.

  • 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.
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  video-gamesTo use a buffer or buffers; to attempt to isolate or minimize the effects of one thing or another.

  • Some games let you buffer jumps—if you hold the jump button mid-air, your character will jump as soon as they touch the ground.
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  computingengineeringmathematicsTo store (data) in memory temporarily while it is awaiting processing.

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  chemistrynatural-sciencesphysical-sciencesTo maintain the acidity of a solution near a chosen value by adding an acid or a base.

buffernoun詞源 3/ˈbʌfə/

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  A good-humoured, slow-witted fellow, usually an elderly man.

  • 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.

buffernoun詞源 4/ˈbʌfə/

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  datedslangA dog.

  • 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 […]

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