buffet

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A counter or sideboard from which food and drinks are served or may be bought.

   “They stayed together during three dances, went out on to the terrace, explored wherever they were permitted to explore, paid two visits to the buffet, and enjoyed themselves much in the same way as if they had been school-children surreptitiously breaking loose from an assembly of grown-ups.”

2. isim Food laid out in this way, to which diners serve themselves.

   “We'll be serving supper buffet style.”

3. isim A small low stool; a hassock.
4. isim A blow or cuff with or as if with the hand, or by any other solid object or the wind.

   “On his cheek a buffet fell.”

5. isim The vibration of an aircraft when flying in or approaching a stall, caused by separation of airflow from the aircraft's wings.
6. fiil To strike with a buffet; to cuff; to slap.

   “They spit in his face and buffeted him.”

7. fiil To aggressively challenge, denounce, or criticise.
8. fiil To affect as with blows; to strike repeatedly; to strive with or contend against.

   “to buffet the billows”

9. fiil To deaden the sound of (bells) by muffling the clapper.
10. fiil To struggle, contend; also in figurative or extended use: to move as if driven by force.

    “Again the chirpy tone did nothing to pacify the woman holding on to her ankles. Soon Zoe was buffeting back and forward through the hole.”