Puff
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Puff may refer to:
In foods with high air content:
In low-density objects:
In animals:
In computer:
In other usage:
In foods with high air content:
- Puffed grainPuffed grainPuffed grain includes ancient puffed grains like popcorn as well as puffed rice. Modern puffed grains are often created using high temperature, pressure, and/or extrusion....
- Puff pastryPuff pastryIn baking, a puff pastry is a light, flaky, leavened pastry containing several layers of fat which is in solid state at 20 °C . In raw form, puff pastry is a dough which is spread with solid fat and repeatedly folded and rolled out and used to produce the aforementioned pastries...
- Cocoa PuffsCocoa PuffsCocoa Puffs is a brand of chocolate-flavored puffed grain breakfast cereal, manufactured by General Mills. Introduced in 1958, the cereal consists of small orbs of corn, oats and rice that have been flavored with cocoa. Essentially, Cocoa Puffs are Kix cereal with added chocolate flavoring...
- Cream puff, profiterole
In low-density objects:
- Powder puffPowder puffPowder puffs are pieces of soft material used for the application of face powder. They may be shaped as balls or pads.Historically, powder puffs have been made of very fine down feathers, cotton, fine fleece, etc...
, face-powder applicator - PuffsPuffsPuffs is a brand of facial tissue manufactured by Procter & Gamble. Introduced in 1960, it is among the leading national brands of facial tissue in the United States...
, a brand of facial tissue
In animals:
- Puffer, fish in family Tetraodontidae
- Puff adderPuff adderPuff adder is the common name of several snake species:* Bitis arietans, a venomous snake species found in Africa and the southern Arabian Peninsula* Bitis, any other member of this genus...
, snake biological taxa
In computer:
- PUFFSPUFFS (NetBSD)Pass-to-Userspace Framework File System is a NetBSD kernel subsystem developed for running filesystems in userspace. It was added to NetBSD in the 5.0 release and has a FUSE compatibility layer allowing portability from other operating systems....
, a NetBSDNetBSDNetBSD is a freely available open source version of the Berkeley Software Distribution Unix operating system. It was the second open source BSD descendant to be formally released, after 386BSD, and continues to be actively developed. The NetBSD project is primarily focused on high quality design,...
kernelKernel (computing)In computing, the kernel is the main component of most computer operating systems; it is a bridge between applications and the actual data processing done at the hardware level. The kernel's responsibilities include managing the system's resources...
subsystem developed for running filesystemsFile systemA file system is a means to organize data expected to be retained after a program terminates by providing procedures to store, retrieve and update data, as well as manage the available space on the device which contain it. A file system organizes data in an efficient manner and is tuned to the...
in userspace.
In other usage:
- Puff Daddy or Sean Combs (born 1969), American entertainer
- Puff, a character in the song "Puff, the Magic DragonPuff, the Magic Dragon"Puff, the Magic Dragon" is a song written by Leonard Lipton and Peter Yarrow, and made popular by Yarrow's group Peter, Paul and Mary in a 1963 recording. The song achieved great popularity and has entered American and British pop culture.-Lyrics:...
" - Puff Piece or PufferyPufferyPuffery as a legal term refers to promotional statements and claims that express subjective rather than objective views, which no "reasonable person" would take literally...
, exaggerated advertising claims - Puff, inhalationInhalationInhalation is the movement of air from the external environment, through the air ways, and into the alveoli....
- Puff, slang for a camp male homosexual
- Puff, light gust of wind
- Puff, alternative/incorrect spelling of Poof, slang for a camp male homosexual
- "Puff, the Magic Dragon", nickname for the Douglas AC-47 SpookyAC-47 SpookyThe Douglas AC-47 Spooky was the first in a series of gunships developed by the United States Air Force during the Vietnam War...
U.S. Airforce ground-attack aircraft - Puff, A chain of smoke shops in Vancouver BC Canada
See also
- Puffy (disambiguation)
- PoufPoufThe pouf is a hairstyle deriving from 18th-century France. It was made popular by the Queen of France, Marie Antoinette in 1774, first sporting it when she attended her husband Louis XVI's coronation, triggering a wave of young french woman to wear their hair in the same manner...
and pouffe - PufferyPufferyPuffery as a legal term refers to promotional statements and claims that express subjective rather than objective views, which no "reasonable person" would take literally...
- Puff modelPuff modelThe Puff model is a volcanic ash tracking model developed at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. It requires windfield data on a geographic grid covering the area over which ash may be dispersed. Representative ash particles are initiated at the volcano's location and then allowed to advect,...
for the spread of volcanic ash - The Powerpuff GirlsThe Powerpuff GirlsThe Powerpuff Girls is an American animated television series created by animator Craig McCracken and produced by Hanna-Barbera for Cartoon Network...
- Pronunciation "puff" for abbreviations "PF":
- pF, capacitance unit picofarad, tiny fraction of a farad
- PF, Public forum debatePublic forum debatePublic forum debate, also known as crossfire debate, PFD , is a style of debate practiced in National Forensic League, Texas Forensics Association, and National Catholic Forensic League competitions....
- PUFFS, for "Passive Underwater Fire Control Feasibility Studies", a series of sonarsSonarSonar is a technique that uses sound propagation to navigate, communicate with or detect other vessels...
(BQG-1 to BQG-4) used by the United States NavyUnited States NavyThe United States Navy is the naval warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the seven uniformed services of the United States. The U.S. Navy is the largest in the world; its battle fleet tonnage is greater than that of the next 13 largest navies combined. The U.S...