buffer

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /ˈbʌfə/|[ˈbɐfə(ɹ)]    美 /ˈbʌfəɹ/|/ˈbafə(ɹ)/|[ˈbäfə(ɹ)]

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Someone or something that buffs (polishes and makes shiny).; A machine with rotary brushes, passed over a hard floor to clean it.
  2. A dog. UK,dated,slang
    — Who does not remember that adorable little dog, and that last Christmas season at Olympia, when the Whimmy we had all loved had been dead a month or so, and his buffer ran disconsolately round the circus, pining […]
  3. A good-humoured, slow-witted fellow, usually an elderly man. colloquial
    — Lastly, the looking-glass reflects Boots and Brewer, and two other stuffed Buffers interposed between the rest of the company and possible accidents.
  4. Anything used to isolate or minimize the effect of one thing on another.; A solution used to stabilize the pH (acidity) of a liquid, such as by resisting a change in pH when an acid or alkali is added.
  5. Someone or something that buffs (polishes and makes shiny).; A machine for polishing shoes and boots.
  6. Anything used to isolate or minimize the effect of one thing on another.; Anything used to maintain slack or isolate different objects.
  7. Anything used to isolate or minimize the effect of one thing on another.; A device on trains and carriages designed to cushion the impact between them.
    — 1885, W. S. Gilbert, The Mikado, Act II, in The Mikado, and Other Plays, New York: Modern Library, 1917, p. 42, https://archive.org/details/mikadootherplays00gilb The idiot who, in railway carriages, / Scribbles on window panes, / We only suffer / To ride on a buffer / In Parliamentary trains.
  8. A boxer. Ireland,archaic,slang
    — Such a buffer as Donnelly, / Ereland never again will see.
  9. Anything used to isolate or minimize the effect of one thing on another.; The barrier placed at the end of the track to absorb the impact of a train that fails to stop.
    — Of course, I was not always right. I questioned the value of Crossrail (a scheme revived by Prescott after being scrapped by the Conservatives), suggesting wrongly that it may be "doomed to hit the buffers" […]. A dozen years later, I published my book on it, extolling the line's wonders. We are all allowed to change our minds.
  10. Anything used to isolate or minimize the effect of one thing on another.; An isolating circuit, often an amplifier, used to minimize the influence of a driven circuit on the driving circuit.
  11. Anything used to isolate or minimize the effect of one thing on another.; 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.
  12. Anything used to isolate or minimize the effect of one thing on another.; 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.
  13. Anything used to isolate or minimize the effect of one thing on another.; A buffer zone (such as a demilitarized zone) or a buffer state.
  14. Anything used to isolate or minimize the effect of one thing on another.; A reserve of funds set aside for use only when adverse circumstances prevail.
    — I keep a savings buffer of three months' worth of living expenses.
  15. Anything used to isolate or minimize the effect of one thing on another.; A gap that isolates or separates two things. figuratively
    — An utterly emphatic 5-0 victory was ultimately capped by two wonder strikes in the last two minutes from Aston Villa midfielder Gary Gardner. Before that, England had utterly dominated to take another purposeful stride towards the 2013 European Championship in Israel. They have already established a five-point buffer at the top of Group Eight.
  16. The chief boatswain's mate. UK,slang
    — He decided to run for president of the POs' Mess against the Buffer, Chief Bosun's Mate Mal Crane, but the two had a face-to-face in his cabin one night in Narvik and sorted it out.
动词 v.
  1. To use a buffer or buffers; to isolate or minimize the effects of one thing on another.
    — The electronic apparatus is designed to buffer up the sorted wagons in the sidings at a speed not exceeding 4.7 m.p.h.—a particularly important provision in this yard, with its substantial traffic in whisky.
  2. To use a buffer or buffers; to isolate or minimize the effects of one thing on another.; To queue up (an input) so that it is performed immediately once it is possible.
    — Some games let you buffer jumps—if you hold the jump button mid-air, your character will jump as soon as they touch the ground.
  3. To store (data) in memory temporarily while it is awaiting processing. intransitive,transitive
  4. To maintain the acidity of a solution near a chosen value by adding an acid or a base.
形容词 adj.
  1. Comparative form of buff: more buff. comparative,form-of

词形变化

buffers plural buffers plural buffers present,singular,third-person buffering participle,present buffered participle,past buffered past buffers plural buffers plural

词汇关系

衍生词
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词源

词源 1
From buff + -er.
词源 2
Agent noun from obsolete verb buff (“make a dull sound when struck”) (mid-16c.), from Old French buffe (“blow”).
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.
词源 3
In reference to buff leather.
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