Look up: puff

1. puff
   [adj] - gathered for protruding fullness 2. [n] - a short light gust of air 3. [n] - a light inflated pastry or puff shell 4. [n] - exaggerated praise (as for promotional purposes) 5. [n] - a slow inhalation (as of tobacco smoke) 6. [v] - make proud or conceited 7. [v]...
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2. puff
   a short release of effluent Category: Nuclear industry (with applied atomic and nuclear physics)
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3. Puff
   Puff (pŭf) noun [ Akin to G. & Swedish puff a blow, Danish puf , Dutch pof ; of imitative origin. Confer Buffet .] 1. A sudden and single emission of breath from the mouth; hence, any sudden or short blast of w...
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4. Puff
   Puff intransitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Puffed (pŭft); present participle & verbal noun Puffing .] [ Akin to German puffen to pop, buffet, puff, Dutch poffen<...
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5. Puff
   Puff transitive verb 1. To drive with a puff, or with puffs. « The clearing north will puff the clouds away.» Dryden. 2. To repel with words; to blow at contemptuously. « I puff the prostitute ...
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6. Puff
   Puff adjective Puffed up; vain. [ R.] Fanshawe.
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7. puff
   1. To blow in puffs, or with short and sudden whiffs. ... 2. To blow, as an expression of scorn; with at. 'It is really to defy Heaven to puff at damnation.' (South) ... 3. To breathe quick and hard, or with puffs, as after violent exertion. 'The ass comes back again, puffing and blowing, from the c...
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8. puff
   puffed adjective gathered for protruding fullness; `puff sleeves`
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9. puff
   noun a slow inhalation (as of tobacco smoke); `he took a puff on his pipe`; `he took a drag on his cigarette and expelled the smoke slowly`
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10. puff
    noun exaggerated praise (as for promotional purposes)
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11. puff
    noun a light inflated pastry or puff shell
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12. puff
    puff of air noun a short light gust of air
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13. puff
    chuff verb blow hard and loudly; `he huffed and puffed as he made his way up the mountain`
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14. puff
    verb praise extravagantly; `The critics puffed up this Broadway production`
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15. Puff
    • (n.) To breathe in a swelling, inflated, or pompous manner; hence, to assume importance. • (n.) A puffball. • (v. t.) To praise with exaggeration; to flatter; to call public attention to by praises; to praise unduly. • (v. t.) To cause to swell or dilate; to inflate; to ruffle ...
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16. puff
    (algorithm) To decompress data that has been crunched by Huffman coding. At least one widely distributed Huffman decoder program was actually *named* 'PUFF', but these days it is usually packaged with the encoder. Opposite: huff. [Jargon File] (1996-10-16)
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17. puff
    
    • a short light gust of air
    • exaggerated praise (as for promotional purposes)
    • bedding made of two layers of cloth filled with stuffing and stitched together
    • a fluffy pad for applying powder to the skin
    • a slow inhalation (as of tobacco smoke)
    • forceful exhalation through the nose or mouth
    
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18. Puff
    Puff is slang for breath.
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19. Puff
    Puff is slang for breath.
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20. puff
    Type: Term Pronunciation: pŭf Definitions: 1. A short blowing sound heard on auscultation, usually a systolic murmur heard over the heart.
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21. Puff
    Puff Adder
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