buff — قاموس الإنجليزية

اسم

1. Undyed leather from the skin of buffalo or similar animals.

   الاستعمال

   • معدود
   • غير معدود

   أمثلة

   […]; but is in a ſuite of buffe […]

2. A tool, often one covered with buff leather, used for polishing.

   الاستعمال

   • معدود
   • غير معدود

3. A brownish yellow colour.

   الاستعمال

   • معدود
   • غير معدود

   أمثلة

   أمثلة إضافية (1)

   1693, John Dryden (translator), The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis Translated into English Verse, London: Jacob Tonson, Satire 10, lines 307-308, p. 203, […] a Visage rough, Deform’d, Unfeatur’d, and a Skin of Buff.

   His face changed from tan to buff.

4. A military coat made of buff leather.

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   • معدود
   • غير معدود

   أمثلة

   أمثلة إضافية (1)

   A diuell in an euerlaſting garment hath him ; / On whoſe hard heart is button’d vp with ſteele : / A Feind, a Fairie, pittileſſe and ruffe : / A Wolfe, nay worſe, a fellow all in buffe […]

5. A person who is very interested in a particular subject.

   الاستعمال

   • معدود
   • غير رسمي
   • غير معدود

   مرادفات

   enthusiastaficionadoamateur

   أمثلة

   He’s a real history buff. He knows everything there is to know about the civil war.

6. A change introduced in a patch that makes a character, item, or attack stronger.

   الاستعمال

   • معدود
   • غير معدود

   الأضداد

   nerf

7. An effect that makes a character or item stronger.

   الاستعمال

   • معدود
   • غير معدود

   مرادفات

   revamp

   الأضداد

   debuffnerf

   أمثلة

   I just picked up an epic damage buff! Let's go gank the other team!

8. Compressive coupler force that occurs during a slack bunched condition.

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9. The bare skin.

   الاستعمال

   • عامي
   • معدود
   • غير معدود

   أمثلة

   to strip to the buff

   To be in buff, is equivalent to being naked.

   أمثلة إضافية (1)

   Not to mention, nudity can be just plain convenient. “Laundry is minimal,” Schulte notes. It also doesn’t hurt that being in the buff spices up his workday.

10. The greyish viscid substance constituting the buffy coat.

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    • غير معدود

11. Any substance used to dilute (street) drugs in order to increase profits.

    الاستعمال

    • معدود
    • غير معدود

    أمثلة

    أمثلة إضافية (1)

    2014, “Aldergrove’s 856 gang busted, $400,000 in drugs seized,” CBC News, 30 July, 2014, Police say this 20 ton hydraulic jack was used to press mixtures of cocaine and “buff” into brick.

صفة

1. Of the color of buff leather, a brownish yellow.

2. Unusually muscular.

   الاستعمال

   • عامي

   مرادفات

   buffedbuffed out

   أمثلة

   The bouncer was a big, buff dude with tattoos, a shaved head, and a serious scowl.

3. Physically attractive.

   الاستعمال

   • Multicultural-London-English
   • لغة دارجة

   أمثلة

   أمثلة إضافية (1)

   That's right: I'm taking driver's ed next semester. Hiring an interpreter for CHS and the deaf school outta my own hefty pockets. You're welcome. Oh, and I'm going to get really skinny and buff. All slim like a swimsuit model.

فعل

1. To polish and make shiny by rubbing.

   مرادفات

   waxshinepolishfurbishburnish

   أمثلة

   He was already buffing the car's hubs.

2. To make a character or an item stronger.

   الأضداد

   debuffnerf

   أمثلة

   The enchanter buffed the paladin to prepare him to fight the dragon.

   I noticed that the pistols were buffed in the update.

3. To modify a medical chart, especially in a dishonest manner.

   أمثلة

   أمثلة إضافية (2)

   "Sure thing, I buffed her, and they turfed her to urology, but she bounced back to me!" [...] They attempted to transfer her to urology by modifying her chart (buffing it) to request urine tests, but the doctors in urology sent (bounced) her back.

   The implication of such an action is an invitation to buff the chart. The medical records department could have prevented the falsification by sending a copy of the chart to the attorney at the same time that they notified the hospital physician of the attorney's request for the chart.

4. To remove (graffiti), particularly when done by someone who is not a graffiti writer.

   الاستعمال

   • لغة دارجة

5. To strip to the bare skin.

   الاستعمال

   • عتيق
   • لغة دارجة
   • متعدٍ

فعل

1. To strike.

   أمثلة

   Bravely run Red-hood, / There was a shock, / To have buff’d out the blood / From ought but a block.

اسم

1. A strike; a blow.

   الاستعمال

   • مهجور

   أمثلة

   Nathless so sore a buff to him it lent / That made him reel.

   A man must consider what a blind-man’s-buff is this game of conformity. If I know your sect I anticipate your argument.

فعل

1. To stammer, stutter

   الاستعمال

   • dialectal
   • مهجور

اسم

1. A buffalo, or the meat of a buffalo.

   الاستعمال

   • معدود
   • غير رسمي
   • غير معدود

   أمثلة

   […] diced buff (buffalo) meat, usually heavily spiced […]

   أمثلة إضافية (1)

   You will eat water buffalo meat and drink boiled water buffalo milk: buff burgers at Aunt Jane's restaurant, buff mo-mos which are the Tibetan won-tons, and buff steaks at The Globe.

صفة

1. of the yellowish-beige color of buff leather

اسم

1. an ardent follower and admirer

   مرادفات

   fandevoteelover

   مصطلحات أعمّ

   follower

2. a soft thick undyed leather from the skins of e.g. buffalo or oxen

   مصطلحات أعمّ

   leather

3. bare skin

   مصطلحات أعمّ

   skintegumentcutis

   أمثلة

   ‘swimming in the buff’ means to swim naked

4. a medium to dark tan color

   مرادفات

   yellowish brownraw siennacaramelcaramel brown

   مصطلحات أعمّ

   brownbrownness

5. an implement consisting of soft material mounted on a block; used for polishing (as in manicuring)

   مرادفات

   buffer

   مصطلحات أعمّ

   implement

فعل

1. strike, beat repeatedly

   مرادفات

   buffet

   مصطلحات أعمّ

   hit

   أمثلة

   The wind buffeted him

2. polish and make shiny

   مرادفات

   burnishfurbish

   مصطلحات أعمّ

   polishsmoothsmoothenshine

   أمثلة

   buff the wooden floors

   buff my shoes