Verb (used with object) : The drug buffered his pain.    From Dictionary.com. 

This is commonly called a buffered isotonic solution.    From Wordnik.com.  [eHow - Health How To's] Reference

That's the sense to my use of the term "buffered" here.    From Wordnik.com.  [Only a Game] Reference

MySQL Connector/Python defaults to non-buffered, meaning that you need to fetch all rows after issuing a.    From Wordnik.com.  [Planet MySQL] Reference

"buffered", by small changes that readjust the organism to them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hermann J. Muller - Nobel Lecture] Reference

Somebody said, Hey, did you check the buffered calls?.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jun 18, 2003] Reference

Incoming messages may be buffered, but no guarantees.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Fire Upon the Deep]

You are familiar with double buffered windows, aren't you?.    From Wordnik.com.  [GeekLikeMe.net] Reference

That's who they use to keep themselves buffered from the higher-ups.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Dec 17, 2009] Reference

They went, and they checked the buffered calls from a couple servers.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jun 18, 2003] Reference

The northern boundary is buffered by Netidhopani and Chandkhali forest blocks.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sundarbans National Park, India] Reference

General Electric, which has been buffered by growth overseas, reports results.    From Wordnik.com.  [What's Ahead] Reference

What saved his life that day was a very thick door which buffered the explosion.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stephen Holmes: I Remember Papa] Reference

Modern buildings, skyscrapers being buffered by this wind and this rain as well.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Sep 1, 2008] Reference

Those moves buffered these countries against the recent fall in commodity prices.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shades Of Shanghai On The Nile] Reference

Inside it, she was an observer, buffered from the scrutinizing eyes of strangers.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Thousand Splendid Suns]

Government support of the bank buffered the extent of the downgrade, Moody's said.    From Wordnik.com.  [Long-Dated Treasurys Surge] Reference

Pain no longer buffered by the Void stabbed through his side like a dagger going in.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Crown of Swords]

But as you can see, it's concrete construction, so we are buffered a bit by the wind.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Sep 15, 2004] Reference

We talk much of the time about video that is buffered to as much as 10 seconds or more.    From Wordnik.com.  [Orb Stress Tested at 36,000 Feet] Reference

Some of it is funny, some of it's enlightening, and all of it is buffered by the music.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cherishing the Sweet Sounds of Soul] Reference

This ecoregion is buffered, to some extent, by the surrounding forests of lower altitudes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Madagascar ericoid thickets] Reference

General trade sanctions will only skim the well-buffered wallets of the Burmese dictators.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stan Lim: How Do We Walk The Burmese Road?] Reference

Those top three cereals have buffered much of humanity from the disasters of overpopulation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 8] Reference

Since the cable was too long with no range boosters it would cut off the sound in buffered bursts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tonight, You Too Can Watch U2 On YouTube, Live] Reference

The vast oceans, mildly alkaline for eternity and extraordinarily buffered, have started to acidify.    From Wordnik.com.  [Herman Daly Festschrift~ The world is in over-shoot and what to do about it] Reference

The house is buffered from those of his neighbors by a stand of oak and cedar trees, Ms. Budrow said.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bowie's Bower] Reference

We are somewhat buffered here because of so much government employment and its supporting industries.    From Wordnik.com.  [Michael Lee Philips] Reference

Under the plan, Daley will replace the towers with low-rise housing buffered by playgrounds and lawns.    From Wordnik.com.  [Razing The Vertical Ghettos] Reference

Thus buffered from harsh realities, stay-at-home mothers can often preserve their illusions for quite a while.    From Wordnik.com.  [Leslie Bennetts: The Feminine Mistake] Reference

"Children who are in secure, emotionally supportive relationships are buffered to everyday stressors," she says.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stress] Reference

It also leaves nice break points between programs so you can go where you want quickly, up to 12 hours buffered.    From Wordnik.com.  [The New RealPlayer: Ripping a YouTube Video Near You] Reference

Russia wants to rebuild those border states that have also buffered it, protected it from powerful European nations.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jul 6, 2009] Reference

When I was young, our "choice" was among Bayer aspirin, Bufferin (buffered aspirin) and Anacin (aspirin with caffeine).    From Wordnik.com.  [Christopher Platt: Freedom of Choice? Or Too Many Choices?] Reference

Unlike energy production companies, storage firms like PAA Natural Gas are buffered to a degree from falling gas prices.    From Wordnik.com.  [PAA IPO Rises 8.1%, Ending Rocky Month] Reference

While it buffered, Ira and Ian discussed that great antediluvian topic: having a three-lettered name that starts with I.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anna Jane Grossman: Cell Phones, Pay Phones, Ira and Me] Reference

Betty Lou recorded the event, buffered it, and squirt it out to a monitoring station located at Naval Station Pearl Harbor.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hellfire]