Puff
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Puff may refer to:

In foods with high air content:
  • Puffed grain
    Puffed grain
    Puffed 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 pastry
    Puff pastry
    In 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 Puffs
    Cocoa Puffs
    Cocoa 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 puff
    Powder puff
    Powder 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
  • Puffs
    Puffs
    Puffs 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 adder
    Puff adder
    Puff 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:
  • PUFFS
    PUFFS (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 NetBSD
    NetBSD
    NetBSD 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,...

     kernel
    Kernel (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 filesystems
    File system
    A 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 Dragon
    Puff, 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 Puffery
    Puffery
    Puffery 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, inhalation
    Inhalation
    Inhalation 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 Spooky
    AC-47 Spooky
    The 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)
  • Pouf
    Pouf
    The 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
  • Puffery
    Puffery
    Puffery 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 model
    Puff model
    The 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 Girls
    The Powerpuff Girls
    The 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 debate
      Public forum debate
      Public 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 sonars
    Sonar
    Sonar 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 Navy
    United States Navy
    The 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...

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