Difference between Buffet and Counter

What is the difference between Buffet and Counter?

Buffet as a verb is to strike or blow with a buffet or buffets. while Counter as a verb is contrary, in opposition; in an opposite direction.

Buffet

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To strike or blow with a buffet or buffets.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A counter or sideboard from which food and drink are served or may be bought. Food laid out in this way, to which diners serve themselves. A blow or cuff with or as if with the hand, or by any other solid object or the wind. A low stool; a hassock.

Example sentence: I did a gig at a comedy club in Bournemouth where they served a buffet while the acts were on. There was the clang of people carving turkey during the set. If you put comedy and turkey side by side, turkey always wins.

Counter

Part of speech: adverb

Definition: Contrary, in opposition; in an opposite direction.

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Contrary; opposite; contrasted; opposed; adverse; antagonistic.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To contradict, oppose.To return a blow while receiving one, as in boxing.To take action in response to; to respond.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: An object (now especially a small disc) used in counting or keeping count, or as a marker in games, etc.Any stone lying closer to the center than any of the opponent's stones.A table or board on which money is counted and over which business is transacted; a shop tabletop on which goods are examined, weighed or measured.One who counts, or reckons up; a reckoner.A telltale; a contrivance attached to an engine, printing press, or other machine, for the purpose of counting the revolutions or the pulsations.The prison attached to a city court; a Counter.a class of word used along with numbers to count objects and events, typically mass nouns. Although rare and optional in English (e.g. "20 head of cattle"), they are numerous and required in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean.In a kitchen, a surface, often built into the wall and above a cabinet, whereon various food preparations take place.A proactive defensive hold or move in reaction to a hold or move by one's opponent.Something in contradiction or opposition to a proposal, suggestion, policy, etc.A variable, memory location, etc. whose contents are incremented to keep a count.A hit counter.The piece of a shoe or a boot around the heel of the foot (above the heel of the shoe/boot).The overhanging stern of a vessel above the waterline.

Example sentence: In it not easy to remain rational and normal mentally in such a setting where, even in our airport in Montgomery, there is a white waiting room... There are restroom facilities for white ladies and colored women, white men and colored men. We stand outside after being served at the same ticket counter instead of sitting on the inside.

We hope you now know whether to use Buffet or Counter in your sentence.

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