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Is buffer a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word buffer is a Scrabble US word. The word buffer is worth 14 points in Scrabble:

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Is buffer a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word buffer is a Scrabble UK word and has 14 points:

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6-letter words (2 found)

BUFFER,REBUFF,

5-letter words (2 found)

BUFFE,RUFFE,

4-letter words (3 found)

BUFF,RUBE,RUFF,

3-letter words (14 found)

BRU,BUR,EFF,ERF,FER,FEU,FUB,FUR,REB,REF,RUB,RUE,URB,URE,

2-letter words (7 found)

BE,EF,ER,FE,FU,RE,UR,

1-letter words (1 found)

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You can make 29 words from buffer according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of buffer

buffer

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈbʌfə(ɹ)/, [ˈbɐfə(ɹ)]
  • (General American) IPA(key): /ˈbʌfɚ/
  • (General Australian) IPA(key): /ˈbafə(ɹ)/, [ˈbäfə(ɹ)]
  • Rhymes: -ʌfə(ɹ)

Etymology 1

Noun

buffer (plural buffers)

  1. Someone or something that buffs (polishes and makes shiny).
    1. A machine with rotary brushes, passed over a hard floor to clean it.
    2. A machine for polishing shoes and boots.
  2. (slang, archaic, Ireland) A boxer.
    • 1821, Pierce Egan (the Elder), Boxiana; or, Sketches of antient and modern pugilism (page 117)
      Such a buffer as Donnelly, / Ereland never again will see.
Derived terms
  • buffer lass
  • buffer rodeo
  • circular buffer
Translations

Adjective

buffer

  1. Comparative form of buff: more buff.

Etymology 2

Agent noun from obsolete verb buff (“make a dull sound when struck”) (mid-16c.), from Old French buffe (“blow”).

The “boatswain's mate” sense is said to be popularly explained by the mate being a “buffer”, that is intermediary, between officers and men, but various other explanations have also been proposed.

Noun

buffer (plural buffers)

  1. (chemistry) A solution used to stabilize the pH (acidity) of a liquid.
  2. (computing) A portion of memory set aside to temporarily store data, often before it is sent to an external device or as it is received from an external device.
  3. Anything used to isolate or minimize the effect of one thing on another.
    1. (mechanical) Anything used to maintain slack or isolate different objects.
    2. (telecommunications) A routine or storage medium used to compensate for a difference in rate of flow of data, or time of occurrence of events, when transferring data from one device to another.
    3. (rail transport) A device on trains and carriages designed to cushion the impact between them.
      • 1885, W. S. Gilbert, The Mikado, Act II, in The Mikado, and Other Plays, New York: Modern Library, 1917, p. 42, [2]
        The idiot who, in railway carriages, / Scribbles on window panes, / We only suffer / To ride on a buffer / In Parliamentary trains.
    4. (rail transport) The metal barrier to help prevent trains from running off the end of the track.
    5. An isolating circuit, often an amplifier, used to minimize the influence of a driven circuit on the driving circuit.
    6. (politics, international relations) A buffer zone (such as a demilitarized zone) or a buffer state.
    7. (figurative) A gap that isolates or separates two things.
  4. (UK, nautical, slang) The chief boatswain's mate.
Derived terms
Translations

Verb

buffer (third-person singular simple present buffers, present participle buffering, simple past and past participle buffered)

  1. To use a buffer or buffers; to isolate or minimize the effects of one thing on another.
    1. (video games) To queue up (an input) so that it is performed immediately once it is possible.
  2. (computing) To store data in memory temporarily.
  3. (chemistry) To maintain the acidity of a solution near a chosen value by adding an acid or a base.
Derived terms
  • buffer up
  • debuffer
  • unbuffer
Translations

Etymology 3

Noun

buffer (plural buffers)

  1. (colloquial) A good-humoured, slow-witted fellow, usually an elderly man.

References

Anagrams

  • rebuff

Danish

Etymology

From English buffer.

Noun

buffer c (singular definite bufferen, plural indefinite buffere)

  1. (chemistry) buffer

Declension

Synonyms

  • puffer

Further reading

  • “buffer” in Den Danske Ordbog

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English buffer.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈbʏ.fər/
  • Hyphenation: buf‧fer
  • Rhymes: -ʏfər

Noun

buffer m (plural buffers, diminutive buffertje n)

  1. A buffer for storage.
  2. A buffer, margin for safety.
  3. (rail transport) A buffer (device on trains and carriages designed to cushion the impact between them).

Derived terms

  • bufferen
  • buffergeheugen
  • bufferstaat
  • buffervoorraad
  • bufferzone
  • geheugenbuffer

Italian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English buffer.

Noun

buffer m (invariable)

  1. (computing) buffer
    Synonym: memoria tampone

Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English buffer.

Pronunciation

Noun

buffer m (plural buffers)

  1. (computing) buffer (memory for temporary storage)

Romansch

Alternative forms

  • buffar (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan)
  • bufar (Sutsilvan)
  • boffar (Vallader)

Etymology

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Verb

buffer

  1. (Puter) to blow

Synonyms

  • (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan) sufflar
  • (Sutsilvan, Surmiran) zuflar
  • (Puter) zufler
  • (Vallader) sofflar

Spanish

Noun

buffer m (plural buffers)

  1. (computing) buffer

Source: wiktionary.org