buffer vs screen

buffer

noun
  • A gap that isolates or separates two things. 

  • The metal barrier to help prevent trains from running off the end of the track. 

  • A machine with rotary brushes, passed over a hard floor to clean it. 

  • An isolating circuit, often an amplifier, used to minimize the influence of a driven circuit on the driving circuit. 

  • A machine for polishing shoes and boots. 

  • A good-humoured, slow-witted fellow, usually an elderly man. 

  • 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. 

  • 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. 

  • A solution used to stabilize the pH (acidity) of a liquid. 

  • Anything used to maintain slack or isolate different objects. 

  • A buffer zone (such as a demilitarized zone) or a buffer state. 

  • The chief boatswain's mate. 

  • A device on trains and carriages designed to cushion the impact between them. 

verb
  • To use a buffer or buffers; to isolate or minimize the effects of one thing on another. 

  • To maintain the acidity of a solution near a chosen value by adding an acid or a base. 

  • To store data in memory temporarily. 

screen

noun
  • A physical divider intended to block an area from view, or provide shelter from something dangerous. 

  • A collection of less-valuable vessels that travel with a more valuable one for the latter's protection. 

  • Searching through a sample for a target; an act of screening 

  • A dwarf wall or partition carried up to a certain height for separation and protection, as in a church, to separate the aisle from the choir, etc. 

  • A technique used to identify genes so as to study gene functions. 

  • A stencil upon a framed mesh through which paint is forced onto printed-on material; the frame with the mesh itself. 

  • The visualised data or imagery displayed on a computer screen. 

  • An erection of white canvas or wood placed on the boundary opposite a batsman to make the ball more easily visible. 

  • The viewing surface or area of a movie, or moving picture or slide presentation. 

  • The informational viewing area of electronic devices, where output is displayed. 

  • The protective netting which protects the audience from flying objects 

  • An offensive tactic in which a player stands so as to block a defender from reaching a teammate. 

  • A frame supporting a mesh of bars or wires used to classify fragments of stone by size, allowing the passage of fragments whose a diameter is smaller than the distance between the bars or wires. 

  • One of the individual regions of a video game, etc. divided into separate screens. 

  • A disguise; concealment. 

verb
  • To stand so as to block a defender from reaching a teammate. 

  • To determine the source or subject matter of a call before deciding whether to answer the phone. 

  • To present publicly (on the screen). 

  • To search chemical libraries by means of a computational technique in order to identify chemical compounds which would potentially bind to a given biological target such as a protein. 

  • To remove information, or censor intellectual material from viewing. To hide the facts. 

  • To fit with a screen. 

  • To shelter or conceal. 

  • To filter by passing through a screen. 

  • To examine patients or treat a sample in order to detect a chemical or a disease, or to assess susceptibility to a disease. 

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