buffeting
present participle ofbuffet
buffet
verb[T]
uk/ˈbʌf.ɪt/us/ˈbʌf.ɪt/(ofwind,rain, etc.) tohitsomethingrepeatedlyand withgreatforce:
The littleboatwas buffetedmercilesslyby thewaves.
Wind & winds
- air pocket
- anemometer
- blast
- blowy
- breeze
- chinook
- dust devil
- jet stream
- leeward
- prevailing
- sigh
- sirocco
- sou'wester
- southwester
- squall
- stiff
- the Coriolis effect
- tornado
- weathercock
- westerly
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Hitting against objects accidentally and colliding
Examplesofbuffeting
buffeting
In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.
These include stalling, high-lift devices including ' flexible ' variable-geometry systems, boundary-layer control, jet flaps,buffeting, supercritical aerofoils, wave drag in supersonic flight, blunt trailing edges and wing-body strakes.
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This is most encouraging after thebuffetingwe have been through since the recent innovations.
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The hereditary system has, of course, come in for some fairly stiffbuffetingthis afternoon.
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We were also subject to thebuffetingof external stimuli.
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Notwithstanding the pressures and difficulties, and thebuffetingthat the work force has taken from the errors of the board, morale has been remarkably high.
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I do not want to see any child made the subject ofbuffetingabout through legal processes.
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We have had some encouragements and perhaps rather more buffetings.
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Secondly, manufacturing industry has received abuffetingand too much manufacturing industry has gone out of business altogether.
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Is it to give them an opportunity to recover from thebuffetingwhich they have received from in front and from behind?
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These are traditions which have for many years served that industry well in the buffetings of peace and war.
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They are oriented across the current and are sufficiently flexible to withstand quite a bit ofbuffeting.
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We must give poor countries the right to protect their markets in sectors that are weak and which would keel over in thebuffetingof free trade.
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Such questions as angles of incidence, stagger, streamlining, spinning,buffetingand a host of other aerodynamical problems affect equally aircraft for commercial and for military uses.
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The only thing is that people who learn to fly there are not always prepared for thebuffetingthey get in less suitable climates, especially that of this country.
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Close to the speed of sound, an aircraft becomes susceptible tobuffetingcaused by shock waves produced by flying at transonic speeds.
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