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buffer Noun

— A buffer is a physical object at the end of a train line which stops the train going any further. Trains stop at the buffers. — A buffer (figurative) is an end-zone. That is a buffer to prevent war. No military people may cross it. A telomere is a buffer at the ends of a chromosome. — A buffer (computer software) is a zone that can be read and written to. It usually holds back data until it is fine to be used. Let's try to turn off the buffering setting in the game's video settings.

buffer

— noun (chemistry) an ionic compound that resists changes in its pH — verb add a buffer (a solution) buffered saline solution for the eyes — noun a cushion-like device that reduces shock due to an impact — noun a power tool used to buff surfaces — noun (computer science) a part of RAM used for temporary storage of data that is waiting to be sent to a device; used to compensate for differences in the rate of flow of data between components of a computer system — noun (= buff) an implement consisting of soft material mounted on a block; used for polishing (as in manicuring) — noun (= fender) an inclined metal frame at the front of a locomotive to clear the track — noun (= buffer zone) a neutral zone between two rival powers that is created in order to diminish the danger of conflict — verb (= cushion) protect from impact cushion the blow

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Conjugation buffer conjugation

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buffer · verb

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Where'd that buffer get to?
Associated with your uncle for many years, as a sort of buffer.
Buffer?
Well, chief buffer, that's what he's called.
Our chief buffer's her uncle by marriage.
Our chief buffer was the hall porter.
He decided to buffer them with effervescent sodas.
We need the Ukraine as a buffer against the East and we need your grain.
We originally invited you here to act as a buffer between the bickering Satsuma and Choshu clans.
That's the buffer controls at the drill head.
Come on! Buffer controls?
Buffer the molecular movement of the air with a reverse phase short-waves.
Could you expand on your answer? I'm particularly interested in knowing, was there always a buffer involved?
Right, a buffer.
Associated with your uncle for many years, as a buffer.
Well, it's not only a buffer zone between the bush where the lions are and the cattle.
I'm particularly interested in knowing, was there always a buffer involved?
This witness has had no buffer between himself and Michael Corleone.
You know, Laura, if I didn't know better. I'd say you brought Mildred along to act as a buffer between us.
I didn't want to admit it. but I did bring Mildred along as a buffer between us.
Other guy plays nice as a buffer to the mean guy.
Look, you said the good guy acted like a buffer.
That silly old buffer?!
That silly old buffer.
I heard he was a silly old buffer.
Buffer controls?
One move across the buffer zone, Marshal, and your entire fleet will be destroyed.
He died there, poor old buffer.
It's up to Zone to authorise the release of buffer stocks.
Did they use the buffer on it, because I can see myself.
The buffer circuit has been torn out.
You can buffer your last thought or think about something new.
There's no buffer zone.

News and current affairs

Absent a change in trader beliefs, the current oil price spike will be broken only by a recession that exhausts consumers' capacity to buffer higher prices, or when the slow process of substitution away from oil kicks in.
Similarly, loss of wetlands threatened New Orleans' levees, which were built on the assumption that they would have 40 to 50 miles of protective swamp as buffer between the city and the Gulf of Mexico.
In this way, the new Basel rules allow for requiring banks to maintain a so-called countercyclical buffer of extra capital.
America's armed forces are the buffer between the two Koreas, and between China and Japan.
Indeed, the US has acted as a buffer to insulate Israel-whose prime minister has boasted about its nuclear weapons-from any international scrutiny, while ignoring calls by Iran and other countries to create a Middle East nuclear-free zone.
This goal is not surprising: declining or not, Russia has always seen itself as a great power that should be surrounded by buffer states.
China recognizes that it no longer makes sense to stay with its current growth strategy - one that relies heavily on a combination of exports and a massive buffer of dollar-denominated foreign-exchange reserves.
Such contracts involve less investment in on-the-job training, as temporary workers offer a sort of buffer to employers.
President Barack Obama's popularity remains largely intact and acts as a kind of buffer against an uncontrolled explosion of anger.
The 1979 Egypt-Israel Peace Treaty mandated that Sinai be largely demilitarized in order to serve as a buffer zone between the two former enemies.
Chinese leaders may still view North Korea as a strategic buffer state, but China's status as a global power is pushing them to view the North in a new way.
The long-term costs of a worsening security confrontation with the US would exceed the short-term tactical benefits to be derived from continuing to support the North as a buffer state, especially given China's deepening relationship with South Korea.
Their objective was to create a military buffer between the PLO and Israeli forces that were then fighting in Beirut in order to promote the departure of both.
NEW YORK - Over the last two years, the majority of countries in the world chose to expand public spending in order to buffer the impact of the global financial crisis on their economies and populations.
The recently enacted 12th Five-Year Plan (2011-15) has all the right ingredients to produce the ultimate buffer between the dynamism of the East and the perils of a crisis-battered West.
Capital adequacy was a matter of judgment: examiners would figure out how large a buffer a bank ought to have, taking into account its specific risks.
The conventional wisdom is that China doesn't want to lose North Korea as a buffer between it and the US military in South Korea.
The Soviet Union also wanted to surround itself with a protective buffer of like-minded states, and Italy's Benito Mussolini was proud that for a time fascism was a competitive export.
Unlike other species, we seem to be endowed with willpower and intellect, hence we are capable of modifying the environment to buffer the effects of our decreasing fitness.
At the same time, it would buffer consumers from oil-price volatility, thereby stabilizing their energy spending.
At the same time, occupation denied Israel's army the advantage of a buffer - the demilitarized zones that were the key to the 1967 victory against both Egypt and Syria.
More importantly, China's previous leaders had calculated that a strong and unified ASEAN provided a valuable buffer against any possible US containment strategy.
As for Ukraine, the way forward is difficult to discern - not least because of the conflicting experiences of buffer states in the past.
Likewise, since 1967, Jordan has served as an informal buffer state between Israel and the rest of the Arab world.
We will continue to defy Putin and his efforts to reduce Ukraine to a semi-sovereign buffer state.
Surrounded by a forbidding wall, watchtowers, and deadly buffer zones, I entered with a hard-to-obtain visa at the Erez crossing - iron gates, an interrogation by bored young immigration officers and scanners.

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