(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.
Cuff
Definition:
(v. t.) To strike; esp., to smite with the palm or flat of the hand; to slap.
(v. t.) To buffet.
(v. i.) To fight; to scuffle; to box.
(n.) A blow; esp.,, a blow with the open hand; a box; a slap.
(n.) The fold at the end of a sleeve; the part of a sleeve turned back from the hand.
(n.) Any ornamental appendage at the wrist, whether attached to the sleeve of the garment or separate; especially, in modern times, such an appendage of starched linen, or a substitute for it of paper, or the like.
Example Sentences:
(1) To determine the accuracy of double-contrast arthrography in complete rotator cuff tears, we studied 805 patients thought to have a complete rotator cuff tear who had undergone double-contrast shoulder arthrography (DCSA) between 1978 and 1983.
(2) To provide a seal with low pressure-high volume cuffed tubes, cuff sizes of 20.5 mm and 27.5 mm are recommended for female and male patients, respectively.
(3) A rubber cuff was fixed on the metal cylinder and let an opening of 8 cm, simulating the cervix uteri.
(4) Catheter survival for the double-cuff Tenckhoff was significantly better (P .005) than the single-cuff or Lifecath.
(5) This study was designed to investigate the incidence, intensity, and duration of postoperative airway symptoms with special emphasis on cuff construction (low-pressure-high-volume cuff (LPC) vs high-pressure-low-volume cuff (HPC)).
(6) This approach was used in 42 shoulders with rotator cuff tears or posterior instability without complications of infection, failure of deltoid healing, or compromise of suprascapular or axillary nerves.
(7) Pre-operative ultrasonography of the shoulder is regarded as a highly accurate diagnostic tool for rotator cuff tears.
(8) They stress that beside the demonstration of rotator cuff injuries the examination of the surrounding muscles and the labrum glenoidale should not be forgotten either.
(9) Pressure in the medium-volume, low-pressure cuff was controlled and kept below 2.5 kPa (25 cmH2O) during anaesthesia.
(10) The possible diffusion barrier caused by the pericapillary cuff together with the pattern of vascularization may be an important event in ulcer formation and impaired ulcer healing.
(11) The type of manometer, cuff size, and cuff placement are also important factors in obtaining accurate blood pressure readings.
(12) Sixty-three out of 238 patients (26 per cent) presented with the following complications: 29 lesions of the brachial plexus, 21 of the axillary nerve and 28 ruptures of the rotator cuff tendon.
(13) Dedicate it to the off-the-cuff remark – the gaffe, even – which averts a war.
(14) Its high predictive value makes ultrasonography the method of choice in diagnosing rotator cuff tears.
(15) During the gradual change in cuff pressure, the amplitude of consecutive arterial volume pulsations associated with pulse pressure shows change characteristically due to the nonlinearity of arterial pressure-volume(P-V) relation.
(16) With age there is a progressive deterioration in the capsulo-tendinous cuff of the shoulder: When rotator cuff lesions are limited (in general to the supra-spinatus), the cuff remains continent and functional, thereby ensuring good centering of the humeral head.
(17) On the other hand, T2-weighted images with the surface coil demonstrated high signal intensity lesions in cuffs in all 27 patients who were diagnosed to have tears by arthrography or MR arthrography.
(18) We had to reject about one-third of the subjects recruited as hypertensive on the basis of at least three cuff readings, when we found their intra-arterial pressures were normal away from hospital.
(19) For this study, the detector consisted of two acoustic transducers mounted at right angles to each other that were packaged in a perivascular cuff configuration.
(20) In lightly anesthetized sheep, an endotracheal tube with two cuffs placed 14.5-16.5 cm apart was placed to create a chamber into which dimethyl ether was introduced and from which VDMME into the mucosa was determined with a sensitive pneumotachograph.