BUFF


Meaning of BUFF in English

I. noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a film buff (= someone who is interested in films and knows a lot about them )

Film buffs will enjoy reading 'The 100 Best Movies of All Time'.

a nostalgia buff informal (= someone who likes old things )

The restaurant, which still has its 1930s décor, is a favorite with nostalgia buffs.

blind man's buff

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ NOUN

film

For the real film buff , however, the place to be has to be BlackStar.

history

Describing himself as a history buff , Acosta offers his Web site primarily as a catalyst for further discussion.

But while basketball fans lost, history buffs gained.

opera

Alas, even the most well-meaning opera buffs have an unfortunate habit of making their favorite indoor sport sound impossibly complicated.

Inside, bartenders wearing leather harnesses serve beer in cans to an assortment of brutes, heathens, and opera buffs .

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

"How many films did Hitchcock make?" "Ask Paul, -- he's a great film buff ."

The market for magazines for computer buffs is growing all the time.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Alas, even the most well-meaning opera buffs have an unfortunate habit of making their favorite indoor sport sound impossibly complicated.

Computer buffs have a different phrase for it: garbage in, garbage out.

Conspiracy buffs are having a field day speculating about White House motives.

Describing himself as a history buff , Acosta offers his Web site primarily as a catalyst for further discussion.

I don't just mean football supporters, or race-goers, or athletics buffs.

Immature similar, but with whole upperparts mottled buff .

There is little to fight over except narrow policy niceties that interest only foreign affairs buffs and bore most voters.

II. verb

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADVERB

up

Some one had even managed to buff up a shine on the old pewter candlesticks.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

It also may be because she polishes her work to a high sheen, sometimes buffing away a pesky fact or two.

Some manicurists will then buff the nail with a chamois pad to impart a sheen on the finished item.

The next stage is buffing to a gloss finish.

To age the look of the gourds, she buffs them with shoe polish.

Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary.      Дополнительный английский словарь Longman DOCE5.