Stool vs. Buffet

Stoolnoun

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

Stoolnoun

A footstool.

Stoolnoun

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

Stoolnoun

Throne.

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.

Stoolnoun

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

Stoolnoun

Feces, excrement.

Stoolnoun

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

Stoolnoun

(archaic) A decoy.

Stoolnoun

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

Stoolnoun

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

Stoolnoun

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

Stoolverb

To produce stool: to defecate.

Stoolverb

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

Stoolverb

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

Stoolnoun

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

Stoolnoun

A single seat with three or four legs and without a back, made in various forms for various uses.

Stoolnoun

A seat used in evacuating the bowels; hence, an evacuation; a discharge from the bowels.

Stoolnoun

A stool pigeon, or decoy bird.

Stoolnoun

A small channel on the side of a vessel, for the dead-eyes of the backstays.

Stoolnoun

A bishop's seat or see; a bishop-stool.

Stoolnoun

A bench or form for resting the feet or the knees; a footstool; as, a kneeling stool.

Stoolnoun

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

Stoolverb

To ramfy; 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;

Buffetnoun

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

Buffetnoun

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

Buffetnoun

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

Buffetnoun

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

Buffetnoun

A low stool; a hassock.

Buffetverb

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

Buffetverb

to aggressively challenge, denounce, or criticise.

Buffetverb

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

Buffetverb

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

Buffetnoun

A cupboard or set of shelves, either movable or fixed at one side of a room, for the display of plate, china, etc., a sideboard.

Buffetnoun

A counter for food or refreshments.

Buffetnoun

A restaurant containing such a counter, as at a railroad station, or place of public gathering.

Buffetnoun

A meal set out on a buffet[2], arranged so that guests may serve themselves and choose those items that they desire; as, a buffet dinner. Diners usually take a plate provided and move in a line past the items on the buffet[2], placing those items they desire on the plate, to be eaten at some convenient place.

Buffetnoun

A blow with the hand; a slap on the face; a cuff.

Buffetnoun

A blow from any source, or that which affects like a blow, as the violence of winds or waves; a stroke; an adverse action; an affliction; a trial; adversity.

Buffetnoun

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

Buffetverb

To strike with the hand or fist; to box; to beat; to cuff; to slap.

Buffetverb

To affect as with blows; to strike repeatedly; to strive with or contend against; as, to buffet the billows.

Buffetverb

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

Buffetverb

To exercise or play at boxing; to strike; to smite; to strive; to contend.

Buffetverb

To make one's way by blows or struggling.

Buffetnoun

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

Buffetnoun

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

Buffetnoun

usually inexpensive bar

Buffetverb

strike against forcefully;

Buffetverb

strike, beat repeatedly;

Buffet

A buffet can be either a sideboard (a flat-topped piece of furniture with cupboards and drawers, used for storing crockery, glasses, and table linen) or a system of serving meals in which food is placed in a public area where the diners serve themselves. A form of service à la française, buffets are offered at various places including hotels, restaurants, and many social events.