Synonyms of the word

buffet

• n. A counter or sideboard from which food and drinks are served or may be bought.
• n. Food laid out in this way, to which diners serve themselves.
• n. A small stool; a stool for a buffet or counter.
• n. A blow or cuff with or as if with the hand, or by any other solid object or the wind.
• v. (transitive) To strike with a buffet; to cuff; to slap.
• v. (transitive, figuratively) to aggressively challenge, denounce, or criticise.
• v. To affect as with blows; to strike repeatedly; to strive with or contend against.
• v. To deaden the sound of (bells) by muffling the clapper.
• n. A low stool; a hassock.

bar

• n. A solid, more or less rigid object of metal or wood with a uniform cross-section smaller than its length.
• n. (countable, uncountable, metallurgy) A solid metal object with uniform (round, square, hexagonal, octagonal…
• n. A cuboid piece of any solid commodity.
• n. A broad shaft, or band, or stripe.
• n. A long, narrow drawn or printed rectangle, cuboid or cylinder, especially as used in a bar code or a bar…
• n. (typography) Various lines used as punctuation or diacritics, such as the pipe ⟨|⟩, fraction bar (as in…
• n. (mathematics) The sign indicating that the characteristic of a logarithm is negative, conventionally placed…
• n. A business licensed to sell alcoholic drinks for consumption on the premises, or the premises themselves;…
• n. The counter of such a premises.
• n. A counter, or simply a cabinet, from which alcoholic drinks are served in a private house or a hotel room.
• n. (by extension, In combinations such as coffee bar, juice bar etc.) A premises or counter serving any type…
• n. An informal establishment selling food to be consumed on the premises.
• n. An official order or pronouncement that prohibits some activity.
• n. Anything that obstructs, hinders, or prevents; an obstruction; a barrier.
• n. (programming, whimsical, derived from fubar) A metasyntactic variable representing an unspecified entity,…
• n. (Britain, law) The railing surrounding the part of a courtroom in which the judges, lawyers, defendants…
• n. (law, "the Bar", "the bar") The bar exam, the legal licensing exam.
• n. (law, metonymically, "the Bar", "the bar") A collective term for lawyers or the legal profession; specifically…
• n. (telecommunications) A bar-shaped symbol that denotes levels of reception, or reception itself.
• n. (music) A vertical line across a musical staff dividing written music into sections, typically of equal…
• n. (music) One of those musical sections.
• n. (sports) A horizontal pole that must be crossed in high jump and pole vault.
• n. (soccer) The crossbar.
• n. (backgammon) The central divider between the inner and outer table of a backgammon board, where stones…
• n. An addition to a military medal, on account of a subsequent act.
• n. A linear shoaling landform feature within a body of water.
• n. (geography, nautical, hydrology) A ridge or succession of ridges of sand or other substance, especially…
• n. (heraldry) One of the ordinaries in heraldry; a fess.
• n. An informal unit of measure of signal strength for a wireless device such as a cell phone.
• n. A city gate, in some British place names.
• n. (mining) A drilling or tamping rod.
• n. (mining) A vein or dike crossing a lode.
• n. (architecture) A gatehouse of a castle or fortified town.
• n. (farriery) The part of the crust of a horse's hoof which is bent inwards towards the frog at the heel…
• n. (farriery, in the plural) The space between the tusks and grinders in the upper jaw of a horse, in which…
• v. (transitive) To obstruct the passage of (someone or something).
• v. (transitive) To prohibit.
• v. (transitive) To lock or bolt with a bar.
• v. to imprint or paint with bars, to stripe.
• prep. Except, with the exception of.
• prep. (horse racing) Denotes the minimum odds offered on other horses not mentioned by name.
• n. A non-SI unit of pressure equal to 100,000 pascals, approximately equal to atmospheric pressure at sea…

batter

• v. to hit or strike violently and repeatedly.
• v. to coat with batter (the food ingredient).
• v. to defeat soundly; to thrash.
• v. (Britain, slang, usually in the passive) To intoxicate.
• v. (metalworking) To flatten (metal) by hammering, so as to compress it inwardly and spread it outwardly.
• n. A beaten mixture of flour and liquid (usually egg and milk), used for baking (e.g. pancakes, cake, or…
• n. A binge, a heavy drinking session.
• n. A paste of clay or loam.
• n. (printing) A bruise on the face of a plate or of type in the form.
• v. (architecture) To slope (of walls, buildings etc.).
• n. An incline on the outer face of a built wall.
• n. (baseball) The player attempting to hit the ball with a bat.
• n. (cricket, rare) The player attempting to hit the ball with a bat; a batsman.

buff

• n. Undyed leather from the skin of buffalo or similar animals.
• n. A tool, often one covered with buff leather, used for polishing.
• n. A brownish yellow colour.
• n. A military coat made of buff leather.
• n. (informal) A person who is very interested in a particular subject; an enthusiast.
• n. (video games, role-playing games) An effect that temporarily makes a character stronger.
• n. (rail transport) Compressive coupler force that occurs during a slack bunched condition.
• n. The bare skin.
• n. The greyish viscid substance constituting the buffy coat.
• n. A substance used to dilute (street) drugs in order to increase profits.
• n. The meat of a buffalo.
• adj. Of the color of buff leather, a brownish yellow.
• adj. (bodybuilding): Unusually muscular. (also buffed or buffed out).
• adj. (slang) attractive.
• v. To polish and make shiny by rubbing.
• v. (video games, role-playing games) To make a character or an item stronger.
• v. To strike.
• n. (obsolete) A buffet; a blow.

counter

• n. An object (now especially a small disc) used in counting or keeping count, or as a marker in games, etc.
• n. (curling) Any stone lying closer to the center than any of the opponent's stones.
• n. A table or board on which money is counted and over which business is transacted; a shop tabletop on which…
• n. One who counts, or reckons up; a reckoner.
• n. A telltale; a contrivance attached to an engine, printing press, or other machine, for the purpose of…
• n. (historical) The prison attached to a city court; a Counter.
• n. (grammar) A class of word used along with numbers to count objects and events, typically mass nouns. Although…
• n. In a kitchen, a surface, often built into the wall and above a cabinet, whereon various food preparations…
• n. In a bathroom, a surface, often built into the wall and above a cabinet, which holds the washbasin.
• n. (wrestling) A proactive defensive hold or move in reaction to a hold or move by one's opponent.
• n. (programming) A variable, memory location, etc. whose contents are incremented to keep a count.
• n. (Internet) A hit counter.
• adv. Contrary, in opposition; in an opposite direction.
• n. (nautical) The overhanging stern of a vessel above the waterline.
• n. The piece of a shoe or a boot around the heel of the foot (above the heel of the shoe/boot).
• v. To contradict, oppose.
• v. (boxing) To return a blow while receiving one, as in boxing.
• v. To take action in response to; to respond.
• adj. Contrary; opposite; contrasted; opposed; adverse; antagonistic.
• adv. In opposition; in an opposite direction; contrariwise.
• adv. In the wrong way; contrary to the right course.
• adv. At or against the front or face.
• n. (obsolete) An encounter.
• n. (nautical) The after part of a vessel's body, from the water line to the stern, below and somewhat forward…
• n. (music) Alternative form of contra Formerly used to designate any under part which served for contrast…
• n. The breast, or that part of a horse between the shoulders and under the neck.
• n. The back leather or heel part of a boot.
• n. (typography) The area of a letter that is entirely or partially enclosed by a letter form or a symbol.

furniture

• n. (now usually uncountable) Large movable item(s), usually in a room, which enhance(s) the room's characteristics,…
• n. The harness, trappings etc. of a horse, hawk, or other animal.
• n. Fittings, such as handles, of a door, coffin, or other wooden item.
• n. (firearms) the stock and forearm of a weapon.

hit

• v. (heading, physical) To strike.
• v. (transitive, colloquial) To briefly visit.
• v. (transitive, informal) To encounter an obstacle or other difficulty.
• v. (heading) To attain, to achieve.
• v. (transitive) To affect negatively.
• v. (heading, games) To make a play.
• v. (transitive, computing, programming) To use; to connect to.
• v. (transitive, US, slang) To have sex with.
• v. (transitive, US, slang) To inhale an amount of smoke from a narcotic substance, particularly marijuana.
• n. A blow; a punch; a striking against; the collision of one body against another; the stroke that touches…
• n. (music) A recorded song that receives widespread recognition and success, mainly through radio airplay.
• n. An attack on a location, person or people.
• n. (computing, Internet) The result of a search of a computer system or of a search engine.
• n. (Internet) A measured visit to a web site, a request for a single file from a web server.
• n. An approximately correct answer in a test set.
• n. (baseball) The complete play, when the batter reaches base without the benefit of a walk, error, or fielder’s…
• n. (colloquial) A dose of an illegal or addictive drug.
• n. A premeditated murder done for criminal or political purposes.
• n. (dated) A peculiarly apt expression or turn of thought; a phrase which hits the mark.
• n. A game won at backgammon after the adversary has removed some of his men. It counts for less than a gammon.
• adj. Designating of a popular song.
• pron. (dialectal) It.

meal

• n. Food that is prepared and eaten, usually at a specific time (e.g. breakfast = morning meal, lunch = noon…
• n. Food served or eaten as a repast.
• n. (obsolete) A time or an occasion.
• n. The coarse-ground edible part of various grains often used to feed animals; flour or a coarser blend than…
• n. (Britain dialectal) A speck or spot.
• n. A part; a fragment; a portion.
• v. (transitive) To defile or taint.

repast

• n. (now literary) A meal.
• n. (uncountable) The food eaten at a meal.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To supply food to; to feast.
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To take food.

sideboard

• n. A piece of dining room furniture having drawers and shelves for linen and tableware; originally for serving…
• n. A board that forms part of the side of something.
• n. (in the plural, chiefly Britain) Sideburns.
• n. (collectible card games) A set of cards that are separate from a player's primary deck, used to customize…

strike

• v. (transitive, sometimes with out or through) To delete or cross out; to scratch or eliminate.
• v. (heading, physical) To have a sharp or sudden effect.
• v. (transitive) To thrust in; to cause to enter or penetrate.
• v. (heading, personal, social) To have a sharp or severe effect.
• v. To touch; to act by appulse.
• v. (heading, transitive) To take down, especially in the following contexts.
• v. (intransitive) To set off on a walk or trip.
• v. (intransitive) To pass with a quick or strong effect; to dart; to penetrate.
• v. (dated) To break forth; to commence suddenly; with into.
• v. (intransitive) To become attached to something; said of the spat of oysters.
• v. To make and ratify.
• v. To level (a measure of grain, salt, etc.) with a straight instrument, scraping off what is above the level…
• v. (masonry) To cut off (a mortar joint, etc.) even with the face of the wall, or inward at a slight angle.
• v. To hit upon, or light upon, suddenly.
• v. To lade into a cooler, as a liquor.
• v. To stroke or pass lightly; to wave.
• v. (obsolete) To advance; to cause to go forward; used only in the past participle.
• v. To balance (a ledger or account).
• n. (baseball) A status resulting from a batter swinging and missing a pitch, or not swinging at a pitch when…
• n. (bowling) The act of knocking down all ten pins in on the first roll of a frame.
• n. A work stoppage (or otherwise concerted stoppage of an activity) as a form of protest.
• n. A blow or application of physical force against something.
• n. (finance) In an option contract, the price at which the holder buys or sells if they choose to exercise…
• n. An old English measure of corn equal to the bushel.
• n. (cricket) The status of being the batsman that the bowler is bowling at.
• n. The primary face of a hammer, opposite the peen.
• n. (geology) The compass direction of the line of intersection between a rock layer and the surface of the…
• n. An instrument with a straight edge for levelling a measure of grain, salt, etc., scraping off what is…
• n. (obsolete) Fullness of measure; hence, excellence of quality.
• n. An iron pale or standard in a gate or fence.
• n. (ironworking) A puddler's stirrer.
• n. (obsolete) The extortion of money, or the attempt to extort money, by threat of injury; blackmail.
• n. The discovery of a source of something.
• n. A strike plate.