Noun | 1. | puff - a short light gust of air Synonyms: puff of air, whiff |
2. | puff - a light inflated pastry or puff shell | |
3. | puff - exaggerated praise (as for promotional purposes) | |
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5. | puff - a soft spherical object made from fluffy fibers; for applying powder to the skin Synonyms: powderpuff | |
6. | puff - thick cushion used as a seat | |
7. | puff - 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" | |
8. | puff - forceful exhalation through the nose or mouth; "he gave his nose a loud blow"; "he blew out all the candles with a single puff" Synonyms: blow | |
Verb | 1. | puff - smoke and exhale strongly; "puff a cigar"; "whiff a pipe" Synonyms: whiff |
2. | puff - suck in or take (air); "draw a deep breath"; "draw on a cigarette" | |
3. | puff - breathe noisily, as when one is exhausted; "The runners reached the finish line, panting heavily" | |
4. | puff - make proud or conceited; "The sudden fame puffed her ego" | |
5. | puff - praise extravagantly; "The critics puffed up this Broadway production" Synonyms: puff up | |
6. | puff - speak in a blustering or scornful manner; "A puffing kind of man" | |
7. | puff - to swell or cause to enlarge, "Her faced puffed up from the drugs" | |
8. | puff - blow hard and loudly; "he huffed and puffed as he made his way up the mountain" | |
Adj. | 1. | puff - gathered for protruding fullness; "puff sleeves" Synonyms: puffed |
(algorithm) | puff - 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. |