(n.) A cupboard or set of shelves, either movable or fixed at one side of a room, for the display of plate, china, etc., a sideboard.
(n.) A counter for refreshments; a restaurant at a railroad station, or place of public gathering.
(v. i.) A blow with the hand; a slap on the face; a cuff.
(v. i.) A blow from any source, or that which affects like a blow, as the violence of winds or waves; a stroke; an adverse action; an affliction; a trial; adversity.
(v. i.) A small stool; a stool for a buffet or counter.
(v. t.) To strike with the hand or fist; to box; to beat; to cuff; to slap.
(v. t.) To affect as with blows; to strike repeatedly; to strive with or contend against; as, to buffet the billows.
(v. t.) To deaden the sound of (bells) by muffling the clapper.
(v. i.) To exercise or play at boxing; to strike; to smite; to strive; to contend.
(v. i.) To make one's way by blows or struggling.
Example Sentences:
(1) I think the heart of good comedy really lives in truth and reacting to the absurdities, hypocrisies, abuses of power in the world.” Late night television is a no longer a glass of warm milk before bed, it’s a lunch buffet And as TV viewership declines and internet virality becomes as important as real-time eyeballs, cable networks might find that topical comedy is a smart, cost-effective way to grab cross-platform attention.
(2) The public, buffeted by weather fluctuations and economic turmoil, has little time to analyse decadal changes.
(3) Instead, it comes down to how prepared donors and others are to disrupt the current development model; how prepared we all are to smash the “ charitable industrial complex ”, as Peter Buffet once called it.
(4) The buffet option will be put on the table in Lima in December when negotiations enter the final stretch aimed at reaching an international climate deal by the end of 2015.
(5) Food intake was assessed at a buffet lunch that began 38 min after the preload was completed.
(6) Images of rain, snow and hail buffeting Northern Ireland’s six counties would appear to miraculously avoid both the Republic and Scotland!
(7) A key issue for Channel 4's new chairman is how much change the buffeted broadcaster can handle, whether the chief executive needs to be an outstanding creative leader, and how much the advertising model needs to be shaken up.
(8) Still, with the many different stairways charting looping courses around the buffeted white peaks of the galleries, this rooftop landscape will be a kids’ nirvana for hide and seek.
(9) The Communist party leader, Marie-George Buffet, said the party was recommending a pro-Chirac vote in the May 5 runoff "to ensure that the candidate Le Pen gets as low a score as possible", while the Green candidate Noel Mamère said his party had resolved to vote Chirac in the second round "because, although this choice is unimaginable, we have a responsibility to society".
(10) The back crewmember did experience problems such as loss of communications, loss of vision, helmet lift, high frequency head buffet, and exhalation difficulties.
(11) The human rights award comes as Saudi Arabia is buffeted by international criticism, not just for its domestic record but for its airstrikes against Houthi rebels in Yemen , which have led to many civilian casualties.
(12) Run on Brazil's popular self-service, per-kilo model, the buffet features a fine variety of savoury, salad and vegetable dishes, as well as a coffee counter, where you can polish off an espresso and a slice of cake before ducking in to one of the exhibitions elsewhere in this tall building.
(13) But a decade later, buffeted by oil shocks and rising industrial militancy, and weakened by strategic errors, Fiat stood on the verge of bankruptcy.
(14) She described her term, over the life of a hung parliament after the 2010 election, as a “perfect political storm”, buffeted by a “hard-hitting opposition campaign” by Abbott and the leadership instability, though she did not name Kevin Rudd.
(15) Updated at 6.42pm GMT 6.22pm GMT With the global development session over, Davos attendees are now enjoying a spot of food themselves - an oriental-style buffet.
(16) At lunchtime, the Serco staff gathered in a meeting room and ate from a cold buffet.
(17) So we will not allow those on middle and modest incomes to be buffeted about in a storm not of their making.
(18) The airline industry, buffeted first by high oil prices and now the downturn in the global economy is undergoing a period of consolidation as carriers seek to take out capacity and cut costs.
(19) The party has been buffeted by a weakening economy, and a string of controversies and blunders in recent weeks.
(20) Visiting Sousse’s hotels these days is an eerie experience, with empty pools, deserted bars and buffets laden with uneaten food.
Collision
Definition:
(n.) The act of striking together; a striking together, as of two hard bodies; a violent meeting, as of railroad trains; a clashing.
(n.) A state of opposition; antagonism; interference.
Example Sentences:
(1) Structure assignment of the isomeric immonium ions 5 and 6, generated via FAB from N-isobutyl glycine and N-methyl valine, can be achieved by their collision induced dissociation characteristics.
(2) The reduction of such potentials can be explained in terms of collision between the antidromic volleys and those elicited orthodromically by chemical and thermic stimulation.
(3) The most common seenario was a vehicle-vehicle collision in which seat belts were not used and the decedent or the decedent's driver was at fault.
(4) One hypothesis to account for intercellular invasion proposes that a necessary condition for a cell type to be invasive to a given host tissue is that it lack contact paralysis of locomotion during collision with cells of that host tissue.
(5) The method requires that an orthodromic spike be recorded following an antidromic spike, with estimation of a collision interval analogous to that used for establishing antidromicity.
(6) We analized 71 car head-on collisions with 100 persons involved wearing seat belts.
(7) These questions are the points of collision of two immensely important spheres of interest in our everyday life.
(8) A woman who was 30 weeks pregnant was sitting with a three-point seat belt fastened in the front passenger seat of an automobile that was involved in a head-on collision.
(9) Instead of pulling off a rapprochement, the Brown ended up opening a new sore and he is, in all likelihood, on another collision course with his backbenchers, who have already recoiled from attempts to attach conditions to other welfare reforms.
(10) Collision is dependent on the hydrodynamic environment as well.
(11) What we are witnessing is the collision of two imperfect storms: the Conservative party’s turmoil over the future of taxation, and the transformation of the economy.
(12) This report, based on police records submitted to the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet from 1987 through 1989, characterizes motor-vehicle collisions with deer in Kentucky.
(13) There is only a minimal association of a poor prognosis with the speed or severity of the collision and the extent of vehicle damage.
(14) Collision locations were abstracted from police reports and assigned a census tract.
(15) These results indicate the usefulness of low-energy collision-activated dissociation tandem mass spectrometry in the daughter and parent scan modes for the analysis of ganglioside structure, in combination with fast atom bombardment mass spectrometry and high-energy collision-activated dissociation mass spectrometry.
(16) Five-part drama Collision was one of several successes last year, and ITV1 was named channel of the year last night, the day after Crozier's 46th birthday.
(17) Replays show that Maicon had an accidental collision with Lionel Messi's shoulder as a corner was sent in to the mixer.
(18) A Tn5tac1 insertion just inside the 3' end of cysQ, with its isopropyl-beta-D-thiogalactopyranoside-inducible tac promoter pointed toward the cysQ promoter, resulted in auxotrophy only when isopropyl-beta-D-thiogalactopyranoside was present; this conditional phenotype was ascribed to collision between converging RNA polymerases or interaction between complementary antisense and cysQ mRNAs.
(19) Most of the victims had multiple injuries, and only serious collisions, often with a heavier vehicle, led to fatal heart rupture.
(20) Induction of experimental neurosis (by collision of the alimentary and avoidance reflex) gave rise to changes not only in the output of HCl and gastric proteinases, but also in the ratio of macromolecular substances.