Dresser vs. Buffet
Dressernoun
An item of kitchen furniture, like a cabinet with shelves, for storing crockery or utensils.
Buffetnoun
A counter or sideboard from which food and drinks are served or may be bought.
Dressernoun
An item of bedroom furniture, like a low chest of drawers, often with a mirror.
Buffetnoun
Food laid out in this way, to which diners serve themselves.
Dressernoun
One who dresses in a particular way.
‘He's a very snappy dresser.’;
Buffetnoun
A small stool; a stool for a buffet or counter.
Dressernoun
A wardrobe assistant in a theatre (who helps actors put on their costume)
Buffetnoun
A blow or cuff with or as if with the hand, or by any other solid object or the wind.
Dressernoun
(medicine) A surgeon's assistant who helps to dress wounds etc.
Buffetnoun
A low stool; a hassock.
Dressernoun
(UK) A football hooligan who wears designer clothing; a casual.
Buffetverb
(transitive) To strike with a buffet; to cuff; to slap.
Dressernoun
A mechanical device used in grain mills for bolting.
Buffetverb
to aggressively challenge, denounce, or criticise.
Dressernoun
(dated) A table or bench on which meat and other things are dressed, or prepared for use.
Buffetverb
To affect as with blows; to strike repeatedly; to strive with or contend against.
‘to buffet the billows’;
Dressernoun
(mining) A kind of pick for shaping large coal.
Buffetverb
To deaden the sound of (bells) by muffling the clapper.
Dressernoun
One who dresses or prepares stone.
Buffetnoun
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.
‘Not when a gilt buffet's reflected prideTurns you from sound philosophy aside.’;
Dressernoun
One who dresses; one who put in order or makes ready for use; one who on clothes or ornaments.
Buffetnoun
A counter for food or refreshments.
Dressernoun
A kind of pick for shaping large coal.
Buffetnoun
A restaurant containing such a counter, as at a railroad station, or place of public gathering.
Dressernoun
An assistant in a hospital, whose office it is to dress wounds, sores, etc.
Buffetnoun
A meal set out on a buffet[2], arranged so that guests may serve themselves and choose those items that they desire; as, a buffet dinner. Diners usually take a plate provided and move in a line past the items on the buffet[2], placing those items they desire on the plate, to be eaten at some convenient place.
Dressernoun
A table or bench on which meat and other things are dressed, or prepared for use.
‘The pewter plates on the dresserCaught and reflected the flame, as shields of armies the sunshine.’;
Buffetnoun
A blow with the hand; a slap on the face; a cuff.
‘When on his cheek a buffet fell.’;
Dressernoun
A piece of chamber furniture consisting of a chest of drawers, or bureau, with a mirror.
Buffetnoun
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.
‘Those planks of tough and hardy oak that used for yeas to brave the buffets of the Bay of Biscay.’; ‘Fortune's buffets and rewards.’;
Dressernoun
furniture with drawers for keeping clothes
Buffetnoun
A small stool; a stool for a buffet or counter.
‘Go fetch us a light buffet.’;
Dressernoun
a person who dresses in a particular way;
‘she's an elegant dresser’; ‘he's a meticulous dresser’;
Buffetverb
To strike with the hand or fist; to box; to beat; to cuff; to slap.
‘They spit in his face and buffeted him.’;
Dressernoun
a wardrobe assistant for an actor
Buffetverb
To affect as with blows; to strike repeatedly; to strive with or contend against; as, to buffet the billows.
‘The sudden hurricane in thunder roars,Buffets the bark, and whirls it from the shores.’; ‘You are lucky fellows who can live in a dreamland of your own, instead of being buffeted about the world.’;
Dressernoun
low table with mirror or mirrors where one sits while dressing or applying makeup
Buffetverb
To deaden the sound of (bells) by muffling the clapper.
Dressernoun
a cabinet with shelves
Buffetverb
To exercise or play at boxing; to strike; to smite; to strive; to contend.
‘If I might buffet for my love, or bound my horse for her favors, I could lay on like a butcher.’;
Buffetverb
To make one's way by blows or struggling.
‘Strove to buffet to land in vain.’;
Buffetnoun
a piece of furniture that stands at the side of a dining room; has shelves and drawers
Buffetnoun
a meal set out on a buffet at which guests help themselves
Buffetnoun
usually inexpensive bar
Buffetverb
strike against forcefully;
‘Winds buffeted the tent’;
Buffetverb
strike, beat repeatedly;
‘The wind buffeted him’;
Buffet
A buffet can be either a sideboard (a flat-topped piece of furniture with cupboards and drawers, used for storing crockery, glasses, and table linen) or a system of serving meals in which food is placed in a public area where the diners serve themselves. A form of service à la française, buffets are offered at various places including hotels, restaurants, and many social events.
