buffer

Noun

 * 1) Someone or something that buffs.
 * 2) A machine with rotary brushes, passed over a hard floor to clean it.
 * 3) A machine for polishing shoes and boots.
 * 4)  A boxer.
 * 5) * 1821, Pierce Egan (the Elder), Boxiana; or, Sketches of antient and modern pugilism (page 117)
 * Such a buffer as Donnelly, / Ereland never again will see.
 * 1)  a solution that resist changes in pH
 * 2)  reserves, savings.

Translations

 * Finnish: kiillottaja ; kiillotuskone

Etymology 2
Agent noun from obsolete verb (mid-16c.), from.

The “boatswain's mate” sense is said to be popularly explained by the mate being a “buffer”, that is intermediary, between officers and men, but various other explanations have also been proposed.

Noun

 * 1)  A solution used to stabilize the pH (acidity) of a liquid.
 * 2)  A portion of memory set aside to temporarily store data, often before it is sent to an external device or as it is received from an external device.
 * 3) Anything used to isolate or minimize the effect of one thing on another.
 * 4)  Anything used to maintain slack or isolate different objects.
 * 5)  A routine or storage medium used to compensate for a difference in rate of flow of data, or time of occurrence of events, when transferring data from one device to another.
 * 6)  A device on trains and carriages designed to cushion the impact between them.
 * 7) * 1885,, , Act II, in The Mikado, and Other Plays, New York: Modern Library, 1917, p. 42,
 * The idiot who, in railway carriages, / Scribbles on window panes, / We only suffer / To ride on a buffer / In Parliamentary trains.
 * 1)  The metal barrier to help prevent trains from running off the end of the track.
 * 2) An isolating circuit, often an amplifier, used to minimize the influence of a driven circuit on the driving circuit.
 * 3)  A buffer zone (such as a demilitarized zone) or a buffer state.
 * 4)  A gap that isolates or separates two things.
 * 5)  The chief boatswain's mate.
 * 1)  A buffer zone (such as a demilitarized zone) or a buffer state.
 * 2)  A gap that isolates or separates two things.
 * 3)  The chief boatswain's mate.
 * 1)  The chief boatswain's mate.

Translations

 * Danish: puffer, buffer
 * Dutch: buffermengsel
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish: puskuriliuos,
 * French: solution tampon
 * Greek: ρυθμιστικό διάλυμα
 * Indonesian:, , dapar
 * Italian: soluzione tampone
 * Macedonian: пуфер
 * Maori: mehanga whakatautika
 * Occitan: solucion tampon
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: solução tampão
 * Spanish: tampón, solución amortiguadora, solución reguladora
 * Swedish:, buffertlösning


 * Bulgarian: бу́фер
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, 缓冲区
 * Czech: vyrovnávací paměť, buffer
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian: puhver
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * German:
 * Greek:, πρόσκαιρη μνήμη
 * Hebrew: חוֹצֵץ
 * Icelandic: biðminni
 * Japanese: ,
 * Latin: conditorium intermedium, memoria intermedia
 * Lithuanian: buferis
 * Maori: pūreirei
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: buffer
 * Occitan: memòria tampon
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: memorie tampon, memorie intermediară
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian: međuspremnik
 * Spanish: memoria intermedia, antememoria
 * Swedish:, buffertminne
 * Turkish:
 * Vietnamese: bộ nhớ đệm, vùng nhớ đệm, bộ đệm


 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Maori: pākai, tauārai

Verb

 * 1) To use a buffer or buffers; to isolate or minimize the effects of one thing on another.
 * 2)  To queue up (an input) so that it is performed immediately once it is possible.
 * 3)  To store data in memory temporarily.
 * 4)  To maintain the acidity of a solution near a chosen value by adding an acid or a base.
 * 1)  To store data in memory temporarily.
 * 2)  To maintain the acidity of a solution near a chosen value by adding an acid or a base.

Translations

 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:, puskuroida
 * Maori: tauārai


 * Finnish: puskuroida
 * French:
 * Italian:
 * Maori: whakatautika
 * Portuguese:
 * Spanish: tamponar

Noun

 * 1)  A good-humoured, slow-witted fellow, usually an elderly man.

Etymology
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Etymology
Borrowed from.

Noun

 * 1) A  for storage.
 * 2) A buffer, margin for safety.
 * 3)  A buffer device on trains and carriages designed to cushion the impact between them.

Etymology
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Etymology
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Noun

 * 1)   memory for temporary storage

Verb

 * 1)  to blow