What's the difference between buff and luff?

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.

Luff


Definition:

  • (n.) The side of a ship toward the wind.
  • (n.) The act of sailing a ship close to the wind.
  • (n.) The roundest part of a ship's bow.
  • (n.) The forward or weather leech of a sail, especially of the jib, spanker, and other fore-and-aft sails.
  • (v. i.) To turn the head of a vessel toward the wind; to sail nearer the wind; to turn the tiller so as to make the vessel sail nearer the wind.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "There is a real risk that Google, entirely unintentionally, could limit innovation simply because of its dominance," according to Peter Luff, the Conservative chairman of the Business and Enterprise Committee.
  • (2) Last March Peter Luff , the minister for defence equipment – the position itself is telling – said in a speech in London: "The individual UK armed forces are in themselves a brand … If they are using a particular piece of kit, then that's the kind of endorsement a lot of companies are very keen indeed to have."
  • (3) "We have 25 independent analysts following the company, and if you look at their forecasts for 2015, there isn't a single one who is forecasting that profit margins will double or anything like that," said Centrica's financial director, Nick Luff.
  • (4) Politicians from across the parties are also recognised for long service in Westminster, including Kevin Barron, Labour chairman of the standards committee, Peter Luff, a former Tory defence minister, and Richard Ottaway, Conservative chairman of the foreign affairs committee, who are all knighted.
  • (5) In the months before he switched designation of his second home from Worcester to London, Luff paid for more than £5,000 decorating and repairs.
  • (6) Sir Peter Luff, the Tory MP for Mid-Worcestershire who is retiring next year, said the main parties needed to communicate better.
  • (7) Laidlaw wants to bail out as chief executive, and his finance boss, Nick Luff, has already announced his own plans to leave.
  • (8) On the basis of results from their own investigations, the authors compare the values yielded by the enzymatic method with those obtained by means of the Luff-Schoorl procedure.
  • (9) Over the past year the company has lost the finance director Nick Luff, British Gas boss Phil Bentley and chairman Sir Roger Carr.
  • (10) The departure of Chris Weston after just over a year in the job follows the resignation of the finance director, Nick Luff, who is set to be followed by the chief executive, Sam Laidlaw, though his exit has not been confirmed officially.
  • (11) Yesterday Peter Luff, chairman of the cross-party business and enterprise committee of MPs, told the BBC's Today programme that if the deal had gone ahead it would have meant "a huge concentration of electricity generation in the hands of one supplier, over a quarter of the market in one supplier".
  • (12) Peter Luff, the Conservative MP for Worcestershire Mid, has insisted Ipsa's rules forced him to move out of his home and rent.
  • (13) Luff noted that Centrica had put three gas-fired power stations up for sale two months ago and scrapped plans for an offshore windfarm, the Celtic Array off Anglesey.
  • (14) Nick Luff, Centrica's finance director, said the improvement in the bottom line had been driven by demand returning to "normal levels" among the group's 15.8 million British Gas customers.
  • (15) Examination of the register of members' interests shows that those who are renting a London home whilst claiming rental income include Liam Fox, the former defence secretary and the former ministers Peter Luff and Nick Harvey.
  • (16) 1.34pm GMT Peter Luff , the Conservative former defence minister, asks what the purpose of the three new boats will be.
  • (17) Iain Duncan Smith, the work and pensions secretary, David Gauke, a Treasury minister, and Peter Luff, a junior defence minister, have all already visited Scotland this autumn.
  • (18) The source said the headhunters looking for Luff's replacement had been asked to look for a new man for the top job at the same time.
  • (19) Luff and Weston earned £1.2m apiece last year – down from over £3m, which prompted a Financial Times headline warning: "Slimmer pay packets may deter replacements."
  • (20) Luff said while the rebuff for EDF had few short-term implications: "The government does have to get on with creating the climate in which these new nuclear power stations are built."