Stool vs. Buffet

Stool vs. Buffet — Is There a Difference?
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Difference Between Stool and Buffet

Stoolnoun

A seat for one person without a back or armrest, particularly:

Buffetnoun

A counter or sideboard from which food and drinks are served or may be bought.

Stoolnoun

A footstool.

Buffetnoun

Food laid out in this way, to which diners serve themselves.

Stoolnoun

A seat; a seat with a back; a chair.

Buffetnoun

A small stool; a stool for a buffet or counter.

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Stoolnoun

Throne.

Buffetnoun

A blow or cuff with or as if with the hand, or by any other solid object or the wind.

Stoolnoun

(horticulture) A plant that has been cut down until its main stem is close to the ground, resembling a stool, to promote new growth.

Buffetnoun

A low stool; a hassock.

Stoolnoun

(obsolete) A seat used for urination and defecation: a chamber pot, commode, outhouse seat, or toilet.

Buffetverb

(transitive) To strike with a buffet; to cuff; to slap.

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Stoolnoun

Feces, excrement.

Buffetverb

to aggressively challenge, denounce, or criticise.

Stoolnoun

A production of feces or excrement, an act of defecation, stooling: a shit.

Buffetverb

To affect as with blows; to strike repeatedly; to strive with or contend against.

to buffet the billows

Stoolnoun

(archaic) A decoy.

Buffetverb

To deaden the sound of (bells) by muffling the clapper.

Stoolnoun

(nautical) A small channel on the side of a vessel, for the deadeyes of the backstays.

Buffetnoun

a piece of furniture that stands at the side of a dining room; has shelves and drawers

Stoolnoun

Material, such as oyster shells, spread on the sea bottom for oyster spat to adhere to.

Buffetnoun

a meal set out on a buffet at which guests help themselves

Stoolnoun

A plant from which layers are propagated by bending its branches into the soil.

Buffetnoun

usually inexpensive bar

Stoolverb

To produce stool: to defecate.

Buffetverb

strike against forcefully;

Winds buffeted the tent

Stoolverb

(horticulture) To cut down (a plant) until its main stem is close to the ground, resembling a stool, to promote new growth.

Buffetverb

strike, beat repeatedly;

The wind buffeted him

Stoolverb

(agriculture) To ramify; to tiller, as grain; to shoot out suckers.

Stoolnoun

a simple seat without a back or arms

Stoolnoun

solid excretory product evacuated from the bowels

Stoolnoun

(forestry) the stump of a tree that has been felled or headed for the production of saplings

Stoolnoun

a plumbing fixture for defecation and urination

Stoolverb

lure with a stool, as of wild fowl

Stoolverb

react to a decoy, of wildfowl

Stoolverb

grow shoots in the form of stools or tillers

Stoolverb

have a bowel movement;

The dog had made in the flower beds