(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.
Gauntlet
Definition:
(n.) See Gantlet.
(n.) A glove of such material that it defends the hand from wounds.
(n.) A long glove, covering the wrist.
(n.) A rope on which hammocks or clothes are hung for drying.
Example Sentences:
(1) Britain threw down the gauntlet to donors on Monday by announcing that it would commit £1bn to replenish the Global Fund to Fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria on condition that other countries agreed to follow suit.
(2) Draghi threw down the gauntlet to fiscal policymakers, arguing for infrastructure spending while lowering the ECB’s own growth forecasts,” said Cavalla.
(3) It was a gauntlet that had nearly broken them by February but had them battle-hardened for the challenges ahead.
(4) "The rich countries of this world have thrown down the gauntlet to the poorest.
(5) Juncker voiced resentment that his entire team of 28 commissioners was being put on the spot by the censure motion, throwing down the gauntlet to the far right.
(6) Convoys that try to get out of here must run the gauntlet of taunting Christian mobs.
(7) He throws down the gauntlet to directors and actors alike to make it anything other than that.
(8) In 10 subjects, a comparison has been made between a below-elbow plaster, a moulded plaster gauntlet and an above-elbow plaster.
(9) Imagine showing up to work just to run the gauntlet of hundreds of people telling you how worthless you are.
(10) We are taken ashore and forced to run the gauntlet of rows of soldiers while military TV films us.
(11) Gauntlet thrown there, Mr Android and Mr Windows 8.
(12) Its chair Maria Millerpromised she would "throw down the gauntlet to companies such as Google, Facebook, Microsoft and Twitter".
(13) The Coalition is banking on Labor’s support to get its national security legislation passed rather than having to run the gauntlet of the senate crossbench.
(14) Emboldened by the ratings, Tsipras threw down the gauntlet, taunting his opponents to go ahead with the formation of a government.
(15) The prime minister threw down the gauntlet to the Senate crossbench declaring “the time for games is over”, saying three weeks was ample time for senators to consider and pass the bills reconstituting the Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC) and regulating registered organisations.
(16) It is a poor country, but here we have a government that is throwing down the gauntlet to the rich, highly polluting countries."
(17) "I've often thought that the gauntlet of American politics is more individualistic, more expensive, more unpredictable than in many other democracies.
(18) The apparent high Km values in slices were probably due to depletion of the GABA concentration in the extracellular fluid as the exogenous GABA ran the gauntlet of competing uptake sites on its way to sites deep within the slice, thereby bringing about a requirement for higher GABA concentrations in the incubation medium in order to maintain the internal GABA levels at the "Km level."
(19) "I think Andrew Lansley has really thrown down the gauntlet to us.
(20) Liberal backbencher Russell Broadbent has thrown down the gauntlet to his own side of politics by labelling the indefinite detention of asylum seeker children “unacceptable”.