Buffet - English meaning

noun

A sudden loud, sharp noise.

Usage examples:

The door slammed with a bang

verb

Strike or put down (something) forcefully and noisily.

Usage examples:

He began to bang the table with his fist

adverb

Exactly.

Usage examples:

The train arrived bang on time

verb

Strike repeatedly with hard blows.

Usage examples:

A prisoner was battered to death with a table leg

noun

A semi-liquid mixture of flour, egg, and milk or water, used for making pancakes or for coating food before frying.

Usage examples:

Pancake batter

noun

(in various sports, especially baseball) a player who is batting.

noun

A cupboard with shelves or drawers for storing or displaying articles.

Usage examples:

A cocktail cabinet

noun

A storage compartment for clothes and valuables

noun

A piece of furniture with shelves or drawers that is used for storing useful things or showing decorative things

Usage examples:

A medicine cabinet, in the us, the secretary of defense is a member of the president’s cabinet.

noun

A small restaurant selling light meals and drinks.

Usage examples:

Urban dwellers may eat a light meal at a café or restaurant in the evening.

noun

A restaurant where simple and usually quite cheap meals are served

Usage examples:

There's a little café on the corner that serves very good coffee.

noun

A small shop

noun

A restaurant in which customers serve themselves from a counter and pay before eating.

Usage examples:

Federal law states that while irradiated meat must be labeled in grocery stores, it does not have t…

noun

A restaurant where people choose what they want from the foods and drinks that are offered in a serving area and carry the items to a table after paying for them

noun

A restaurant in a factory, school, office building, etc., where people collect food and drink from a serving area and take it to their tables

Usage examples:

Employees have four different salads to choose from for lunch in the company cafeteria.

noun

A restaurant provided by an organization such as a college, factory, or company for its students or staff.

Usage examples:

Anybody who has seen a fight sequence from a hindi film which takes place in a college canteen or a…

noun

A small store or restaurant esp. in a factory or school where food and meals are sold

noun

A place in a factory, office, etc., where employees can buy food and meals at a low price

Usage examples:

Benefits include free car parking and a subsidized staff canteen.

noun

A long flat-topped fitment across which business is conducted in a shop or bank or refreshments are served in a cafeteria.

Usage examples:

Having eaten these we were hard pressed to ignore the shop counter as we departed.

verb

Speak or act in opposition to.

Usage examples:

The second argument is more difficult to counter

adverb

In the opposite direction or in opposition to.

Usage examples:

His writing ran counter to the dominant trends of the decade

verb

Bring one's hand or a tool or weapon into contact with (someone or something) quickly and forcefully.

Usage examples:

The woman hit the mugger with her umbrella

noun

An instance of striking or being struck.

Usage examples:

Few structures can withstand a hit from a speeding car

verb

Deal a blow to, either with the hand or with an instrument

verb

Strike or beat with a whip or stick.

Usage examples:

They lashed him repeatedly about the head

noun

A sharp blow or stroke with a whip or rope.

Usage examples:

He was sentenced to fifty lashes for his crime

verb

A quick blow delivered with a whip or whiplike object

noun

A unit of weight equal to 16 oz. avoirdupois (0.4536 kg), or 12 oz. troy (0.3732 kg).

Usage examples:

A short ton is the standard u.s. ton of 2,000 pounds and measures weight.

verb

Strike or hit heavily and repeatedly.

Usage examples:

Patrick pounded the couch with his fists

verb

Shut (an animal) in a pound.

noun

A place where people pay to sit and eat meals that are cooked and served on the premises.

Usage examples:

In the past five years numerous cafes, restaurants, bars, and shops have opened

noun

A place of business where people can choose a meal to be prepared and served to them at a table, and for which they pay, usually after eating

Usage examples:

A chinese/italian/mexican restaurant

noun

A place where meals are prepared and served to paying customers

Usage examples:

She has no experience of running a restaurant., the restaurant business/industry, a restaurant chai…

adjective

(of a business or machine) operated without employees to help you, so that you take items for yourself and then pay someone for whatever you have taken

Usage examples:

A self-service gas station/cafeteria

adjective

Used to describe a store, restaurant, etc. where you are not served by an employee, but collect goods or food yourself

Usage examples:

A self-service store/station/gas station, to keep costs down, the cafeteria is self-service., a sel…

noun

A flat-topped piece of furniture with cupboards and drawers, used for storing crockery, glasses, and table linen.

Usage examples:

In the end, the right wall only displayed an antique sideboard, the china cupboard, a quaint old ro…

noun

A piece of furniture with a flat top and enclosed shelves at the bottom, usually used for holding such things as glasses, plates, knives, and forks

noun

A range of open sandwiches and delicacies served as hors d'oeuvres or a buffet.

Usage examples:

With hosts kannikar and ib ottesen supplying a danish smorgasbord which included norwegian salmon a…

noun

A mixture of many different hot and cold dishes that are arranged so that you can serve yourself as much as you want; a buffet

Usage examples:

We’ll have a smorgasbord at the party., fig. candidates offered a smorgasbord of reforms (= a large…

verb

Hit forcibly and deliberately with one's hand or a weapon or other implement.

Usage examples:

He raised his hand, as if to strike me

noun

A refusal to work organized by a body of employees as a form of protest, typically in an attempt to gain a concession or concessions from their employer.

Usage examples:

Dockers voted for an all-out strike

verb

Deliver a sharp blow, as with the hand, fist, or weapon