Aussprachen (3)
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/bʌf/
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- General-American
- Received-Pronunciation
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/bɐf/
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- Australia
- New-Zealand
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/bʊf/
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- Northern-England
Substantiv
Undyed leather from the skin of buffalo or similar animals.
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[…]; but is in a ſuite of buffe […]
A tool, often one covered with buff leather, used for polishing.
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A brownish yellow colour.
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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.
A military coat made of buff leather.
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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 […]
A person who is very interested in a particular subject.
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He’s a real history buff. He knows everything there is to know about the civil war.
A change introduced in a patch that makes a character, item, or attack stronger.
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An effect that makes a character or item stronger.
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I just picked up an epic damage buff! Let's go gank the other team!
Compressive coupler force that occurs during a slack bunched condition.
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The bare skin.
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to strip to the buff
To be in buff, is equivalent to being naked.
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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.
The greyish viscid substance constituting the buffy coat.
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Any substance used to dilute (street) drugs in order to increase profits.
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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.
Adjektiv
Of the color of buff leather, a brownish yellow.
Unusually muscular.
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The bouncer was a big, buff dude with tattoos, a shaved head, and a serious scowl.
Physically attractive.
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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.
Verb
To polish and make shiny by rubbing.
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He was already buffing the car's hubs.
To make a character or an item stronger.
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The enchanter buffed the paladin to prepare him to fight the dragon.
I noticed that the pistols were buffed in the update.
To modify a medical chart, especially in a dishonest manner.
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"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.
To remove (graffiti), particularly when done by someone who is not a graffiti writer.
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To strip to the bare skin.
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Verb
To strike.
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Bravely run Red-hood, / There was a shock, / To have buff’d out the blood / From ought but a block.
Substantiv
A strike; a blow.
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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.
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To stammer, stutter
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Substantiv
A buffalo, or the meat of a buffalo.
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[…] diced buff (buffalo) meat, usually heavily spiced […]
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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.
Adjektiv
of the yellowish-beige color of buff leather
Substantiv
an ardent follower and admirer
- Oberbegriffe
a soft thick undyed leather from the skins of e.g. buffalo or oxen
- Oberbegriffe
bare skin
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‘swimming in the buff’ means to swim naked
a medium to dark tan color
an implement consisting of soft material mounted on a block; used for polishing (as in manicuring)
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- Oberbegriffe
Verb
strike, beat repeatedly
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The wind buffeted him
polish and make shiny
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buff the wooden floors
buff my shoes