Dresser vs. Buffet — What's the Difference?

One that dresses

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.

A wardrobe assistant, as for an actor.

A large sideboard with drawers and cupboards.

A chest of drawers often supporting a mirror and typically used for holding clothes and personal items.

A counter or table from which meals or refreshments are served.

A cupboard or set of shelves for dishes or kitchen utensils.

A restaurant having such a counter.

An item of kitchen furniture, like a cabinet with shelves, for storing crockery or utensils.

A meal at which guests serve themselves from various dishes displayed on a table or sideboard.

An item of bedroom furniture, like a low chest of drawers, often with a mirror.

A blow or cuff with or as if with the hand.

One who dresses in a particular way.

Informally served

A wardrobe assistant (who helps actors put on their costume).

To hit or beat, especially repeatedly.

A servant to royalty etc. who helps them with tasks such as dressing.

To strike against forcefully and especially repeatedly; batter

(medicine) A surgeon's assistant who helps to dress wounds etc.

To cause repeated difficulty or harm to (a person or group)

(UK) A football hooligan who wears designer clothing; a casual.

To force (one's way) with difficulty.

A mechanical device used in grain mills for bolting.

To force one's way with difficulty

(dated) A table or bench on which meat and other things are dressed, or prepared for use.

A counter or sideboard from which food and drinks are served or may be bought.

(mining) A kind of pick for shaping large coal.

Food laid out in this way, to which diners serve themselves.

One who dresses or prepares stone.

A small low stool; a hassock.

One who dresses; one who put in order or makes ready for use; one who on clothes or ornaments.

(countable) A blow or cuff with or as if with the hand, or by any other solid object or the wind.

A kind of pick for shaping large coal.

The vibration of an aircraft when flying in or approaching a stall, caused by separation of airflow from the aircraft's wings.

An assistant in a hospital, whose office it is to dress wounds, sores, etc.

(transitive) To strike with a buffet; to cuff; to slap.

A table or bench on which meat and other things are dressed, or prepared for use.

To aggressively challenge, denounce, or criticise.

A piece of chamber furniture consisting of a chest of drawers, or bureau, with a mirror.

To affect as with blows; to strike repeatedly; to strive with or contend against.

Furniture with drawers for keeping clothes

To deaden the sound of (bells) by muffling the clapper.

A person who dresses in a particular way;

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.

A wardrobe assistant for an actor

A counter for food or refreshments.

Low table with mirror or mirrors where one sits while dressing or applying makeup

A restaurant containing such a counter, as at a railroad station, or place of public gathering.

A cabinet with shelves

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.

A blow with the hand; a slap on the face; a cuff.

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.

A small stool; a stool for a buffet or counter.

To strike with the hand or fist; to box; to beat; to cuff; to slap.

To affect as with blows; to strike repeatedly; to strive with or contend against; as, to buffet the billows.

To deaden the sound of (bells) by muffling the clapper.

To exercise or play at boxing; to strike; to smite; to strive; to contend.

To make one's way by blows or struggling.

A piece of furniture that stands at the side of a dining room; has shelves and drawers

A meal set out on a buffet at which guests help themselves

Usually inexpensive bar

Strike against forcefully;

Strike, beat repeatedly;