(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.
Sideboard
Definition:
(n.) A piece of dining-room furniture having compartments and shelves for keeping or displaying articles of table service.
Example Sentences:
(1) I don't know about you, but when I was growing up, the festive sideboard always featured one of those long, oval boxes packed with slightly squashed dates held together with a plastic stem.
(2) On a sideboard, not yet opened, is a magnum of Grand Siècle champagne, sent by her label when Goulding's summer single, Burn – throbbing, clubby, ubiquitous – went to No 1 for three weeks in July.
(3) There are Warhols in the loo, Bacons in the kitchen, Giacomettis on the sideboard, Toback at the centre of the conversation, but as yet no Tyson.
(4) A useful strategy to counteract such absent-mindedness can be to develop a fixed method for performing such tasks: always place your keys in the same spot on the sideboard, always carry out the late-night errands in the same order (lock the back door, turn off the gas, turn off lights, etc).
(5) It is hard to imagine Margaret Thatcher pondering how much she was allowed for table lamps or Aneurin Bevan being called to account for his 'overspend' on sideboards.
(6) "I even put a sideboard in the window last week," Montgomery says.
(7) Last year, he also claimed £389 for crockery, £200 for two new bed headboards, £849 for a table and chairs, £59 for a desk, £499 for a sideboard and £85 for a shoe rack.
(8) It was very nice to get an Oscar but now it just rusts and tarnishes on the sideboard near the TV.
(9) So get them off the sideboard and into the kitchen.
(10) Two tiny model wind turbines sit among a nest of picture frames on the sideboard that showcase their 15 great-grandchildren.
(11) "With respect to Ade, if he has come out with that, Ade has not been around for the last couple of years and the boss has put silverware on the sideboard in that time.
(12) In the two front rooms, up a step from the kitchen level and so only a few inches deep in water, chairs are piled on sofas, tables on sideboards.
(13) And – la pièce de résistance – I have a lovely sideboard, bought after a long search on eBay, on which fruit, cheese and alcohol may patiently await diners' attention.
(14) The Capital One Cup may not be the grandest object on anyone’s sideboard, but it is where Mourinho started in England – against Liverpool – and in that 2004-05 season it went quite well with sitting on top of the Premier League.