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BUFFER

6 letters

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TWL06 ✓ SOWPODS ✓ ENABLE1 ✓
Classic 3 pts
Big 3 pts
Super Big 3 pts

BUFFER is a valid 6-letter Boggle word. It's listed in all three major word lists — TWL06, SOWPODS, and ENABLE1. It scores 3 in Classic, 3 in Big, and 3 in Super Big Boggle.

Word family

BUFFERS-s 5 BUFFERING-ing 11 BUFFERED-ed 11
noun
  1. A machine with rotary brushes, passed over a hard floor to clean it.
  2. A machine for polishing shoes and boots.
  3. IrelandarchaicslangA boxer.
  4. A solution used to stabilize the pH (acidity) of a liquid, such as by resisting a change in pH when an acid or alkali is added.
  5. Anything used to maintain slack or isolate different objects.
  6. A device on trains and carriages designed to cushion the impact between them.
  7. The barrier placed at the end of the track to absorb the impact of a train that fails to stop.
  8. An isolating circuit, often an amplifier, used to minimize the influence of a driven circuit on the driving circuit.
  9. A routine or storage medium used to compensate for a difference in rate of flow of data, or time of occurrence of events, when transferring data from one device to another.
  10. A portion of memory set aside to temporarily store data, often before it is sent to an external device or as it is received from an external device.
  11. A buffer zone (such as a demilitarized zone) or a buffer state.
  12. A reserve of funds set aside for use only when adverse circumstances prevail.
    • I keep a savings buffer of three months' worth of living expenses.
  13. figurativelyA gap that isolates or separates two things.
  14. UKslangThe chief boatswain's mate.
  15. colloquialA good-humoured, slow-witted fellow, usually an elderly man.
  16. UKdatedslangA dog.
verb
  1. To use a buffer or buffers; to isolate or minimize the effects of one thing on another.
  2. To queue up (an input) so that it is performed immediately once it is possible.
    • Some games let you buffer jumps—if you hold the jump button mid-air, your character will jump as soon as they touch the ground.
  3. intransitivetransitiveTo store (data) in memory temporarily while it is awaiting processing.
  4. To maintain the acidity of a solution near a chosen value by adding an acid or a base.