Stool vs. Buffet — What's the Difference?

A backless and armless single seat supported on legs or a pedestal.

A buffet can be either a sideboard (a flat-topped piece of furniture with cupboards and drawers, used for storing crockery, glasses, and table linen) or a system of serving meals in which food is placed in a public area where the diners serve themselves. A form of service à la française, buffets are offered at various places including hotels, restaurants, and many social events.

A low bench or support for the feet or knees in sitting or kneeling, as a footrest.

A large sideboard with drawers and cupboards.

A toilet seat; a commode.

A counter or table from which meals or refreshments are served.

Evacuated fecal matter.

A restaurant having such a counter.

A stump or rootstock that produces shoots or suckers.

A meal at which guests serve themselves from various dishes displayed on a table or sideboard.

A shoot or growth from such a stump or rootstock.

A blow or cuff with or as if with the hand.

(Botany) To send up shoots or suckers.

Informally served

To evacuate the bowels; defecate.

To hit or beat, especially repeatedly.

(Slang) To act as a stool pigeon.

To strike against forcefully and especially repeatedly; batter

A seat, especially for one person and without armrests.

To cause repeated difficulty or harm to (a person or group)

A seat for one person without a back or armrests.

To force (one's way) with difficulty.

A footstool.

To force one's way with difficulty

A seat with a back; a chair.

A counter or sideboard from which food and drinks are served or may be bought.

A throne.

Food laid out in this way, to which diners serve themselves.

(obsolete) A close-stool; a seat used for urination and defecation: a chamber pot, commode, outhouse seat, or toilet.

A small low stool; a hassock.

(horticulture) A plant that has been cut down until its main stem is close to the ground, resembling a stool, to promote new growth.

(countable) A blow or cuff with or as if with the hand, or by any other solid object or the wind.

Feces, excrement.

The vibration of an aircraft when flying in or approaching a stall, caused by separation of airflow from the aircraft's wings.

A production of feces or excrement, an act of defecation, stooling.

(transitive) To strike with a buffet; to cuff; to slap.

(archaic) A decoy; a portable piece of wood to which a pigeon is fastened to lure wild birds.

To aggressively challenge, denounce, or criticise.

(nautical) A small channel on the side of a vessel, for the deadeyes of the backstays.

To affect as with blows; to strike repeatedly; to strive with or contend against.

Material, such as oyster shells, spread on the sea bottom for oyster spat to adhere to.

To deaden the sound of (bells) by muffling the clapper.

A plant from which layers are propagated by bending its branches into the soil.

A cupboard or set of shelves, either movable or fixed at one side of a room, for the display of plate, china, etc., a sideboard.

To produce stool: to defecate.

A counter for food or refreshments.

(horticulture) To cut down (a plant) until its main stem is close to the ground, resembling a stool, to promote new growth.

A restaurant containing such a counter, as at a railroad station, or place of public gathering.

(agriculture) To ramify; to tiller, as grain; to shoot out suckers.

A meal set out on a buffet[2], arranged so that guests may serve themselves and choose those items that they desire; as, a buffet dinner. Diners usually take a plate provided and move in a line past the items on the buffet[2], placing those items they desire on the plate, to be eaten at some convenient place.

A plant from which layers are propagated by bending its branches into the soil.

A blow with the hand; a slap on the face; a cuff.

A single seat with three or four legs and without a back, made in various forms for various uses.

A blow from any source, or that which affects like a blow, as the violence of winds or waves; a stroke; an adverse action; an affliction; a trial; adversity.

A seat used in evacuating the bowels; hence, an evacuation; a discharge from the bowels.

A small stool; a stool for a buffet or counter.

A stool pigeon, or decoy bird.

To strike with the hand or fist; to box; to beat; to cuff; to slap.

A small channel on the side of a vessel, for the dead-eyes of the backstays.

To affect as with blows; to strike repeatedly; to strive with or contend against; as, to buffet the billows.

A bishop's seat or see; a bishop-stool.

To deaden the sound of (bells) by muffling the clapper.

A bench or form for resting the feet or the knees; a footstool; as, a kneeling stool.

To exercise or play at boxing; to strike; to smite; to strive; to contend.

Material, such as oyster shells, spread on the sea bottom for oyster spat to adhere to.

To make one's way by blows or struggling.

To ramfy; to tiller, as grain; to shoot out suckers.

A piece of furniture that stands at the side of a dining room; has shelves and drawers

A simple seat without a back or arms

A meal set out on a buffet at which guests help themselves

Solid excretory product evacuated from the bowels

Usually inexpensive bar

(forestry) the stump of a tree that has been felled or headed for the production of saplings

Strike against forcefully;

A plumbing fixture for defecation and urination

Strike, beat repeatedly;

Lure with a stool, as of wild fowl

React to a decoy, of wildfowl

Grow shoots in the form of stools or tillers

Have a bowel movement;