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buff
Overview of noun buff
The noun buff has 5 senses (first 1 from tagged texts)
1. (2) fan, buff, devotee, lover -- (an ardent follower and admirer)
2. buff -- (a soft thick undyed leather from the skins of e.g. buffalo or oxen)
3. buff -- (bare skin; naked; "swimming in the buff")
4. yellowish brown, raw sienna, buff, caramel, caramel brown -- (a medium to dark tan color)
5. buff, buffer -- (an implement consisting of soft material mounted on a block; used for polishing (as in manicuring))
Overview of verb buff
The verb buff has 2 senses (first 1 from tagged texts)
1. (1) buffet, buff -- (strike, beat repeatedly; "The wind buffeted him")
2. buff, burnish, furbish, flush -- (polish and make shiny; "buff the wooden floors"; "buff my shoes")
Overview of adj buff
The adj buff has 1 sense (no senses from tagged texts)
1. buff -- (of the yellowish-beige color of buff leather)
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun buff
5 senses of buff
Sense 1
fan, buff, devotee, lover
=> follower
=> person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, soul
=> organism, being
=> living thing, animate thing
=> object, physical object
=> physical entity
=> entity
=> causal agent, cause, causal agency
=> physical entity
=> entity
Sense 2
buff
=> leather
=> animal skin
=> animal product
=> animal material
=> material, stuff
=> substance, matter
=> physical entity
=> entity
Sense 3
buff
=> skin, tegument, cutis
=> connective tissue
=> animal tissue
=> tissue
=> body part
=> part, piece
=> thing
=> physical entity
=> entity
=> body covering
=> covering, natural covering, cover
=> natural object
=> whole, unit
=> object, physical object
=> physical entity
=> entity
Sense 4
yellowish brown, raw sienna, buff, caramel, caramel brown
=> brown, brownness
=> chromatic color, chromatic colour, spectral color, spectral colour
=> color, colour, coloring, colouring
=> visual property
=> property
=> attribute
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 5
buff, buffer
=> implement
=> instrumentality, instrumentation
=> artifact, artefact
=> whole, unit
=> object, physical object
=> physical entity
=> entity
Hyponyms of noun buff
2 of 5 senses of buff
Sense 1
fan, buff, devotee, lover
=> aerophile
=> aficionado
=> amorist
=> bacchant, bacchanal
=> groupie
Sense 4
yellowish brown, raw sienna, buff, caramel, caramel brown
=> snuff-color, snuff-colour
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun buff
5 senses of buff
Sense 1
fan, buff, devotee, lover
=> follower
Sense 2
buff
=> leather
Sense 3
buff
=> skin, tegument, cutis
Sense 4
yellowish brown, raw sienna, buff, caramel, caramel brown
=> brown, brownness
Sense 5
buff, buffer
=> implement
Antonyms of noun buff
Member Holonyms of noun buff
1 of 5 senses of buff
Sense 1
fan, buff, devotee, lover
MEMBER OF: following, followers
Substance Holonyms of noun buff
Part Holonyms of noun buff
Member Meronyms of noun buff
Substance Meronyms of noun buff
Part Meronyms of noun buff
Meronyms of noun buff
Holonyms of noun buff
1 of 5 senses of buff
Sense 1
fan, buff, devotee, lover
MEMBER OF: following, followers
Attributes of noun buff
Derived Forms of noun buff
1 of 5 senses of buff
Sense 5
buff, buffer
RELATED TO>(verb) buff#2
=> buff, burnish, furbish, flush
Domain of noun buff
Domain Terms of noun buff
Familiarity of noun buff
buff used as a noun is common (polysemy count =5)
Coordinate Terms (sisters) of noun buff
5 senses of buff
Sense 1
fan, buff, devotee, lover
> follower
=> camp follower
=> Cartesian
=> cultist
=> disciple, adherent
=> fan, buff, devotee, lover
=> flatterer, adulator
=> flunky, flunkey, stooge, yes-man
=> Freudian
=> Hegelian
=> inferior
=> Jacksonian
=> janissary
=> Jeffersonian
=> Jungian
=> Keynesian
=> Lamarckian
=> leech, parasite, sponge, sponger
=> Machiavellian
=> Mendelian
=> Mohammedan, Muhammedan, Muhammadan
=> myrmidon
=> Nestorian
=> Newtonian
=> regular
=> respecter
=> satellite, planet
=> sheep
=> Skinnerian
=> Stalinist
=> submitter
=> tagalong, hanger-on
=> vassal, liege, liegeman, liege subject, feudatory
=> Wagnerian
Sense 2
buff
> leather
=> piece of leather
=> alligator
=> buckskin
=> buff
=> ooze leather
=> Russia leather
=> calf, calfskin
=> white leather, whit leather
=> chamois, chamois leather, chammy, chammy leather, shammy, shammy leather
=> cordovan
=> cowhide, cowskin
=> crushed leather, crush
=> deerskin
=> doeskin
=> glove leather
=> horsehide
=> kid, kidskin
=> mocha
=> morocco
=> patent leather
=> pigskin
=> sheepskin, fleece
=> shoe leather
=> suede, suede leather
=> roan
Sense 3
buff
> skin, tegument, cutis
=> investment
=> thick skin
=> skin graft
=> buff
=> dewlap
=> prepuce, foreskin
=> prepuce, foreskin
=> scalp
=> cuticle
=> hangnail, agnail
Sense 4
yellowish brown, raw sienna, buff, caramel, caramel brown
> brown, brownness
=> Vandyke brown
=> chocolate, coffee, deep brown, umber, burnt umber
=> light brown
=> reddish brown, sepia, burnt sienna, Venetian red
=> yellowish brown, raw sienna, buff, caramel, caramel brown
=> puce
=> olive brown
=> taupe
Sense 5
buff, buffer
> implement
=> bar
=> beater
=> brush
=> buff, buffer
=> candlesnuffer
=> cleaning implement
=> eraser
=> fire iron
=> flail
=> hook
=> iron, branding iron
=> leather strip
=> needle
=> oar
=> rod
=> sharpener
=> snuffer
=> spear, gig, fizgig, fishgig, lance
=> spike
=> sports implement
=> stick
=> stick
=> stirrer
=> strickle
=> swab
=> swatter, flyswatter, flyswat
=> tool
=> tuning fork
=> utensil
=> writing implement
Meronyms of noun buff
5 senses of buff
Sense 1
fan, buff, devotee, lover
=> follower
=> person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, soul
HAS PART: personality
HAS PART: trait
HAS PART: character, fiber, fibre
HAS PART: thoughtfulness
HAS PART: responsibility, responsibleness
HAS PART: integrity
HAS PART: nature
HAS PART: human body, physical body, material body, soma, build, figure, physique, anatomy, shape, bod, chassis, frame, form, flesh
=> organism, being
HAS SUBSTANCE: tissue
HAS PART: cell
HAS PART: cell membrane, cytomembrane, plasma membrane
HAS PART: energid, protoplast
HAS PART: cytoplasm, cytol
HAS PART: cytoskeleton
HAS PART: microsome
HAS PART: Golgi body, Golgi apparatus, Golgi complex, dictyosome
HAS PART: nucleus, cell nucleus, karyon
HAS PART: nucleolus, nucleole
HAS PART: chromatin, chromatin granule
HAS PART: achromatin
HAS PART: linin
HAS PART: chromosome
HAS PART: nucleolus organizer, nucleolus organiser, nucleolar organizer, nucleolar organiser
HAS PART: gene, cistron, factor
HAS PART: chromatid
HAS PART: centromere, kinetochore
HAS PART: telomere
HAS PART: organelle, cell organelle, cell organ
HAS PART: vacuole
HAS PART: body part
HAS PART: corpus
Sense 3
buff
=> skin, tegument, cutis
HAS SUBSTANCE: melanin
HAS PART: epidermis, cuticle
HAS PART: epidermal cell
HAS PART: stratum corneum, corneum, horny layer
HAS PART: stratum lucidum
HAS PART: stratum granulosum
HAS PART: stratum germinativum, stratum basale, malpighian layer, rete Malpighii
HAS PART: skin cell
HAS PART: dermis, corium, derma
HAS PART: macule, macula
HAS PART: freckle, lentigo
HAS PART: liver spot
HAS PART: whitehead, milium
HAS PART: blackhead, comedo
HAS PART: pore
HAS PART: scab
HAS PART: sweat gland, sudoriferous gland
HAS PART: free nerve ending
HAS PART: Pacinian corpuscle
HAS PART: wrinkle, furrow, crease, crinkle, seam, line
=> connective tissue
HAS SUBSTANCE: collagen
HAS PART: histiocyte
HAS PART: matrix, intercellular substance, ground substance
HAS PART: mast cell, mastocyte, labrocyte
=> animal tissue
=> tissue
=> body part
HAS PART: corpus
=> body covering
HAS PART: hypodermis
=> covering, natural covering, cover
=> natural object
=> whole, unit
HAS PART: part, portion
HAS PART: section, segment
Sense 4
yellowish brown, raw sienna, buff, caramel, caramel brown
=> brown, brownness
=> chromatic color, chromatic colour, spectral color, spectral colour
HAS SUBSTANCE: saturation, chroma, intensity, vividness
Sense 5
buff, buffer
=> implement
=> instrumentality, instrumentation
=> artifact, artefact
=> whole, unit
HAS PART: part, portion
HAS PART: section, segment
Holonyms of noun buff
1 of 5 senses of buff
Sense 1
fan, buff, devotee, lover
MEMBER OF: following, followers
Grep of noun buff
blindman's buff
buff
buffalo
buffalo bill
buffalo bill's wild west show
buffalo bill cody
buffalo bur
buffalo carpet beetle
buffalo chip
buffalo clover
buffalo fish
buffalo gnat
buffalo gourd
buffalo grass
buffalo indian
buffalo nut
buffalo wing
buffalofish
buffel grass
buffer
buffer country
buffer solution
buffer state
buffer storage
buffer store
buffered aspirin
bufferin
buffet
buffet car
buffeting
buffing wheel
bufflehead
buffoon
buffoonery
rebuff
Antonyms of verb buff
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb buff
2 senses of buff
Sense 1
buffet, buff
=> hit
=> touch
Sense 2
buff, burnish, furbish, flush
=> polish, smooth, smoothen, shine
=> fancify, beautify, embellish, prettify
=> better, improve, amend, ameliorate, meliorate
=> change, alter, modify
Troponyms (hyponyms) of verb buff
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb buff
2 senses of buff
Sense 1
buffet, buff
=> hit
Sense 2
buff, burnish, furbish, flush
=> polish, smooth, smoothen, shine
'Cause To' of verb buff
Derived Forms of verb buff
1 of 2 senses of buff
Sense 2
buff, burnish, furbish, flush
RELATED TO>(noun) buff#5
=> buff, buffer
RELATED TO>(noun) buffer#6
=> buff, buffer
RELATED TO>(noun) buffer#4
=> buffer, polisher
Domain of verb buff
Domain Terms of verb buff
Familiarity of verb buff
buff used as a verb is rare (polysemy count =2)
Sample Sentences of verb buff
2 senses of buff
Sense 1
buffet, buff
*> Somebody ----s something
*> Somebody ----s somebody
Sense 2
buff, burnish, furbish, flush
EX: They buff the glass tubes
Coordinate Terms (sisters) of verb buff
2 senses of buff
Sense 1
buffet, buff
> hit
=> clap
=> slam, bang
=> lam into, tear into, lace into, pitch into, lay into
=> kick
=> swipe
=> smite
=> hook
=> swat
=> sock, bop, whop, whap, bonk, bash
=> bean
=> pop
=> get, catch
=> conk
=> cosh
=> brain
=> smash, nail, boom, blast
=> crack
=> sandbag, stun
=> bat
=> bat
=> bat
=> cut
=> thump, pound, poke
=> smack, thwack
=> belt
=> punch, plug
=> slug, slog, swig
=> whack, wham, whop, wallop
=> pummel, pommel, biff
=> buffet, buff
=> box
=> club, bludgeon
=> cudgel, fustigate
Sense 2
buff, burnish, furbish, flush
> polish, smooth, smoothen, shine
=> Simonize, Simonise
=> slick, sleek
=> buff, burnish, furbish, flush
=> gloss
Synonyms (Grouped by Similarity of Meaning) of verb buff
Sense 1
buffet, buff
=> hit
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Sense 2
buff, burnish, furbish, flush
=> polish, smooth, smoothen, shine
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Grep of verb buff
buff
buffalo
buffer
buffet
rebuff
Antonyms of adj buff
1 sense of buff
Sense 1
buff
INDIRECT (VIA chromatic) -> achromatic
Similarity of adj buff
1 sense of buff
Sense 1
buff
=> chromatic (vs. achromatic)
Pertainyms of adj buff
Attributes of adj buff
Domain of adj buff
Domain Terms of adj buff
Familiarity of adj buff
buff used as an adjective is very rare (polysemy count =1)
Grep of adj buff
buff
buff-brown
buff-colored
buff-coloured
buffeted
buffoonish
in the buff
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