buffet

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buf·fet1 /ˈbʊfeɪ $ bəˈfeɪ/ ●○○ noun [countable]  1  DFa meal at a party or other occasion, in which people serve themselves at a table and then move away to eat 自助餐 a cold buffet 冷餐会buffet breakfast/lunch/supper The price includes morning coffee, buffet lunch, and afternoon tea. 这一价格包含早晨的咖啡、自助午餐和下午茶。2. DFTTa place in a railway station, bus station etc where you can buy and eat food or drink 〔车站等的〕快餐部，饮食柜台3. DHF American English a piece of furniture in which you keep the things you use to serve and eat a meal 餐具架[柜] SYN British English sideboard

Examples from the Corpus

buffet• We'll have a buffet lunch at about one o'clock and a sit-down mean in the evening.• The cost of £35 per person includes a buffet lunch and all refreshments during the day.• We're not having a big formal meal at the wedding - just a buffet.• Try out all-you-can-eat buffet - only £5 per person• They also cater, bringing their all-you-can-eat buffet to offices nearby.• The first class restaurant offers an excellent buffet breakfast and a choice of three dinner menus.• The restaurant offers a fabulous buffet lunch.• Most trains are steam hauled by one of the railway's extensive collection of tank engines and include full buffet car facilities.• Breakfast is buffet style, and there is a choice of menu for evening meals.• Evening meals consist of excellent traditional dishes, and always include an extensive salad buffet.• A large mahogany mirror hung over the buffet.• I crossed to the buffet table that had been set up on the far side of the room.buffet breakfast/lunch/supper• The hotel's restaurant serves a buffet breakfast and a substantial and well-prepared choice of meals at other times.• The restaurant serves a buffet breakfast and dinner with a choice of menu.• Journey north through the fertile Kikuyu heartland to Nyeri where a buffet lunch will be served at the Outspan Hotel.• The bountiful buffet breakfast served each morning sets just the right note to start the day by the fresh-water swimming pool.• The first class restaurant offers an excellent buffet breakfast and a choice of three dinner menus.• Scandinavian buffet breakfast; àlacarte restaurant; pizzeria.• A splendid buffet breakfast, and a four course dinner plus salad buffet are served in the rustic style dining room.buf·fet2 /ˈbʌfɪt/ verb [transitive]  1  HITif something, especially wind, rain, or the sea, buffets something, it hits it with a lot of force 〔尤指风、雨或海浪〕猛烈袭击 London was buffeted by storms last night. 伦敦昨晚遭到暴风雨的袭击。n High winds buffeted the region.2  literaryUNKIND to treat someone unkindly 打击，伤害 I was weary of being buffeted by life. 我厌倦了生活的艰难坎坷。3 buffet something about phrasal verb HITto move something in one direction and then another, again and again, with force 把…推来搡去，把…抛来抛去 The body was buffeted about in the waves. 尸体在海浪中漂来荡去。n Grammar Buffet is often passive in meaning 1 and usually passive in meaning 2. —buffeting noun [countable, uncountable]→ See Verb table

Examples from the Corpus

buffet• Before I could examine them, I was buffeted by a gust of wind and rain.• Since last fall, the stock market has been buffeted by contradictory influences.• Then the prime minister's Tristar jet was buffeted by freak 200-mile-an-hour winds before being diverted from Ottawa to Montreal due to fog.• Not every small business has been buffeted by General Dynamics' downsizing.• The coastline was buffeted by strong winds.• But it has been buffeted by the recession on two counts: it is in the south-east and in the services sector.• Local businesses have been buffeted by the troubled economy.• Tossed and buffeted for six hours, and caught in an eddy in the vortex, she died of suffocation.• Heat and smoke buffeted him with welcoming arms as he entered the bar.Origin buffet1 (1700-1800) French buffet2 (1200-1300) buffet “blow, hit” ((13-21 centuries)), from Old French, from buffe “blow”

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buffet

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buffet car /ˈbʊfeɪ kɑː $ bəˈfeɪ kɑːr/ (also buffet) noun [countable] British English
a part of a train where you can buy food and drink

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buf‧fet¹ /ˈbʊfeɪ $ bəˈfeɪ/ noun [countable]1. a meal at a party or other occasion, in which people serve themselves at a table and then move away to eat:
    a cold buffet
    buffet breakfast/lunch/supper
    The price includes morning coffee, buffet lunch, and afternoon tea.
2. a place in a railway station, bus station etc where you can buy and eat food or drink
3. American English a piece of furniture in which you keep the things you use to serve and eat a meal
   SYN  sideboard British English

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buf‧fet² /ˈbʌfət, ˈbʌfɪt/ verb [transitive usually passive]1. if something, especially wind, rain, or the sea, buffets something, it hits it with a lot of force:
    London was buffeted by storms last night.
2. literary to treat someone unkindly:
    I was weary of being buffeted by life.
—buffeting noun [uncountable and countable]
     
buffet something about phrasal verb
  to move something in one direction and then another, again and again, with force:
    The body was buffeted about in the waves.

Buffet

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Buf‧fet, Jimmy /ˈbʌfət, ˈbʌfɪt/
(1946–) a US singer and songwriter who was especially popular in the 1970s. His songs are often humorous and include Margaritaville.

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Buffet, Warren
(1930–) a wealthy US stockbroker (=someone who buys and sells stocks and bonds etc). He bought his first shares when he was 11, and bought land when he was 14 using the money he earned delivering newspapers. He studied at Columbia University after Harvard Business School said they would not take him. In 2008 he was officially the world's richest person, but he has announced that he will give a lot of his money to charity.