What's the difference between aficionado and buff?

Aficionado


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Alice Wade, a 27-year-old self-professed whiskey aficionado, says she started drinking whiskey in college.
  • (2) In 1972 the BBC produced his tale The Stone Tape, a technological ghost story still renowned among aficionados for the twist in its tail.
  • (3) ... George Clooney in a still from Alfonso Cuarón's Gravity Sci-fi aficionados will know there are two possible ways to "do" sound in space on the big screen.
  • (4) The quality was poor, yet it was close and compelling to aficionados.
  • (5) Hamilton can be enjoyed by both the musical theater geek and the rap aficionado, but it ultimately has more to offer the former.
  • (6) Phyllis Dorothy James was born in Oxford in 1920 – a year that's doubly celebrated by crime aficionados, since it also heralded the dawning of the Golden Age of detective fiction , that interwar flowering of intricately plotted mysteries, in which the preternaturally shrewd detective is invited to pick his way through a liberal scattering of clues and red herrings, before confronting reader and murderer with his irrefutable conclusions in the final pages.
  • (7) Male sketchwriters and assorted Westminster aficionados either affected bemused indulgence on behalf of their slighted sisters or scented the whiff of political-correctness-gone-mad.
  • (8) Things can sometimes go wrong – a 1961 Marcels record that appears in episode two sent US vinyl aficionados into a flurry when they spotted that it was on modern reissue label Eric.
  • (9) Jones is an aficionado of musicals, and he recently helped bring The Play What I Wrote, a successful British production about Morecambe and Wise, from London to New York.
  • (10) If you're a scouse coffee aficionado, let us know which one he means.
  • (11) In my new school, a top school, full of maths and science aficionados, the girl with well-developed boobs was queen.
  • (12) The club would evolve over the next decade into incarnations as Brookhattan-Galicia, Galicia FC and Galicia-Honduras, but their brush with Gaetjens gives them cult status amongst US soccer history aficionados.
  • (13) This new Batman was considered by fans and comic-book aficionados to be the real deal and a long overdue riposte to the infamously camp 1960s Batman TV series, starring a paunchy Adam West as the caped crusader.
  • (14) One can wear a dozen powerful sensors, own a smart mattress and even do a close daily reading of one's poop – as some self-tracking aficionados are wont to do – but those injustices would still be nowhere to be seen, for they are not the kind of stuff that can be measured with a sensor.
  • (15) Ever since he bought out his contract from Bob Arum for the princely sum of $750,000 in 2007, he’s made all the right moves to become the highest earning athlete on the planet, no less than a miracle given his risk-averse, defensive style that appeals to a subset of aficionados but not a broader public that’s always preferred slugging to boxing.
  • (16) The first Jesuit pope turns out to be a voracious cultural aficionado – "a Jesuit must be creative," Francis says at one point – but do his literary and artistic inclinations reveal anything about his religious orientation?
  • (17) Not so long ago, I believed that anything that helped broaden interest in current art was to be welcomed; that only an elitist snob would want art to be confined to a worthy group of aficionados.
  • (18) Clinton joined Twitter last week – her biography reads : "Wife, mom, lawyer, women & kids advocate, FLOAR, FLOTUS, US senator, SecState, author, dog owner, hair icon, pantsuit aficionado, glass ceiling cracker, TBD …"
  • (19) As Bond aficionados will be well aware, White’s job is to turn up every now and then to offer up cackling portents of impending doom regarding terrifying nefarious organisations that 007 and his pals appear to know nothing about.
  • (20) I've got a recorder, and I talk to myself" – he puts on a voice like a wine aficionado – "'Hmm, very rubbery.

Buff


Definition:

  • (n.) A sort of leather, prepared from the skin of the buffalo, dressed with oil, like chamois; also, the skins of oxen, elks, and other animals, dressed in like manner.
  • (n.) The color of buff; a light yellow, shading toward pink, gray, or brown.
  • (n.) A military coat, made of buff leather.
  • (n.) The grayish viscid substance constituting the buffy coat. See Buffy coat, under Buffy, a.
  • (a.) A wheel covered with buff leather, and used in polishing cutlery, spoons, etc.
  • (a.) The bare skin; as, to strip to the buff.
  • (a.) Made of buff leather.
  • (a.) Of the color of buff.
  • (v. t.) To polish with a buff. See Buff, n., 5.
  • (v. t.) To strike.
  • (n.) A buffet; a blow; -- obsolete except in the phrase "Blindman's buff."
  • (a.) Firm; sturdy.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Some offer a range, depending on whether you think you're a bit of a buff, and know a pinot meunier from a pinot noir and what prestige cuvée actually means or you just want to see a bit of the process and have a nice glass of bubbly at the end of it, before moving on to the next place – touring a pretty corner of France getting slowly, and delightfully, fizzled.
  • (2) Like, I am well, well equipped for this thing.” For their one survival item each, Rogen brought a role of toilet paper, while Franco brought sunglasses and mugs continually for the camera, giving his best Spring Breakers faces while in the buff.
  • (3) Most train yards have a washer system, which we call the "buff", that takes about 10 minutes to clean the whole train, and that's it – it goes back into service.
  • (4) In vitro autoradiography was used to compare the D-1 and D-2 receptor densities in brains from Buffalo (BUFF) and Fischer 344 (F344) rats.
  • (5) On Tuesday a piece called Art Buff appeared on a wall in Folkestone, Kent – another part of Britain where immigration is high on the political agenda.
  • (6) Former BBC 6 Music presenter Phill Jupitus said his departure was "something that, as a lover of music and radio buff, I had always hoped would never happen" .
  • (7) T. buffeli and T. orientalis also represented immunodominant antigens.
  • (8) In the past decade he has become known as the buff, handsome actor able to genre-jump: he has done comedies (Just Friends, Van Wilder: Party Liaison), horror (The Amityville Horror remake, which is memorable to his fans mostly because it featured Reynolds chopping wood topless), action thrillers (Blade: Trinity) and, in 2009, his breakout romcom The Proposal, in which he starred opposite Sandra Bullock.
  • (9) The present study suggests that T. sergenti should be separated from T. buffeli and T. orientalis on the basis of their serological dissimilarities.
  • (10) Its Genes Reunited site takes a much more mass-market approach than Find My Past, which is used by more "hardcore" genealogy buffs.
  • (11) It remains the achievement with which he is most often linked, except perhaps by movie buffs who admire the films that have preoccupied him over the past couple of decades: La Reine Margot , Intimacy , Gabrielle , Son Frère , Persécution , Those Who Love Me Can Take the Train .
  • (12) Elastase and buff-treated lobes were inflated cyclically with humidified air to a pressure of 20 cm H2O 6 times per min during a 16-hour period.
  • (13) Meanwhile, Dom (no relation) starts planning his own venture, a piri-piri chicken restaurant (drool), then goes cruising in a bath house where he meets Scott Bakula – hot off his Emmy-nominated performance in HBO's Liberace biopic, Behind the Candelabra , and looking unfeasibly buff for a 59-year-old.
  • (14) Differences in veil constituents were found between T. sergenti, T. buffeli and T. orientalis.
  • (15) His father, Kim Jong-il , was a well-known movie buff who ordered the abduction of the South Korean director Shin Sang-ok in 1987.
  • (16) It was these roles that gave him a serious cachet among a generation of film buffs who became movie makers, such as David Zucker, who cast him in the comedy spoof Top Secret!
  • (17) The direct migration inhibition test with peripheral buff-coated leukocytes, is an easy and reliable correlate of delayed hypersensitivity to mycobacterial antigens in the human body.
  • (18) The news will come as no surprise to film buffs who for years have been playing the parlour game Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon, in which they link other actors to Bacon in six films or fewer.
  • (19) If he wants a seven-foot picture of a woman feeding a giraffe in the buff, he's probably going to get one.
  • (20) Test resin was allowed to polymerize, and then buff polished or treated by surface smoothing.