buffet

noun · verbA2

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Danh từ

noun

Plural noun:

buffetsbeaufet

1.
A counter or sideboard from which food and drinks are served or may be bought.
Đồng nghĩa: sideboard, smorgasbord, cupboard
2.
Food laid out in this way, to which diners serve themselves.
We'll be serving supper buffet style.
Đồng nghĩa: buffet meal, smorgasbord
3.
A small low stool; a hassock.
4.
(countable)A blow or cuff with or as if with the hand, or by any other solid object or the wind.
October 30, 1795, Edmund Burke, letter to Lord Auckland those planks of tough and hardy oak that used for years to brave the buffets of the Bay of Biscay
Đồng nghĩa: blow, collision, cuff
5.
(uncountable)(aviation, uncountable) The vibration of an aircraft when flying in or approaching a stall, caused by separation of airflow from the aircraft's wings.

Động từ

verb

V_es/s

buffets

V_ing/Gerund

buffeting

V_ed/pp

buffettingbuffeted

1.
(transitive)To strike with a buffet; to cuff; to slap.
2.
(figuratively, transitive)(transitive, figurative) To aggressively challenge, denounce, or criticise.
Đồng nghĩa: batter
3.
To affect as with blows; to strike repeatedly; to strive with or contend against.
to buffet the billows
Đồng nghĩa: batter
4.
To deaden the sound of (bells) by muffling the clapper.
5.
(intransitive)To struggle, contend; also in figurative or extended use: to move as if driven by force.

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Đồng nghĩa

sideboard smorgasbord cupboardbuffet mealblow collision cuff batter

Cùng gốc / liên quan

autobuffetbuffeteriabuffet carfinger buffetfork buffetscatter buffettea buffetbuffet bowling

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Nguồn gốc từ

Middle English buffet (stool), from Middle French buffet (side table), from Old French buffet, of unknown origin. The modern pronunciation is remodelled after modern buffet.