buoy

1. n. A float; esp. a floating object moored to the bottom, to mark a channel or to point out the position of something beneath the water, as an anchor, shoal, rock, etc. Source: opted

2. v. t. To keep from sinking in a fluid, as in water or air; to keep afloat; -- with up. Source: opted

3. v. t. To support or sustain; to preserve from sinking into ruin or despondency. Source: opted

4. v. t. To fix buoys to; to mark by a buoy or by buoys; as, to buoy an anchor; to buoy or buoy off a channel. Source: opted

5. v. i. To float; to rise like a buoy. Source: opted

6. n. a float attached by rope to the seabed to mark channels in a harbor or underwater hazards; typically brightly-coloured Source: wordnet

7. v. float on the surface of water Source: wordnet

8. v. keep afloat Source: wordnet

9. v. mark with a buoy Source: wordnet

10. A float; esp. a floating object moored to the bottom, to mark a channel or to point out the position of something beneath the water, as an anchor, shoal, rock, etc. Anchor buoy, a buoy attached to, or marking the position of, an anchor. -- Bell buoy, a large buoy on which a bell is mounted, to be rung by the motion of the waves. -- Breeches buoy. See under Breeches. -- Cable buoy, an empty cask employed to buoy up the cable in rocky anchorage. -- Can buoy, a hollow buoy made of sheet or boiler iron, usually conical or pear-shaped. -- Life buoy, a float intended to support persons who have fallen into the water, until a boat can be dispatched to save them. -- Nut or Nun buoy, a buoy large in the middle, and tapering nearly to a point at each end. -- To stream the buoy, to let the anchor buoy fall by the ship's side into the water, before letting go the anchor. -- Whistling buoy, a buoy fitted with a whistle that is blown by the action of the waves. 1. To keep from sinking in a fluid, as in water or air; to keep afloat; -- with up. 2. To support or sustain; to preserve from sinking into ruin or despondency. Those old prejudices, which buoy up the ponderous mass of his nobility, wealth, and title. Burke. 3. To fix buoys to; to mark by a buoy or by buoys; as, to buoy an anchor; to buoy or buoy off a channel. Not one rock near the surface was discovered which was not buoyed by this floating weed. Darwin. To float; to rise like a buoy. "Rising merit will buoy up at last." Pope. Source: webster

11. A float; esp. a floating object moored to the bottom, to mark achannel or to point out the position of something beneath the water,as an anchor, shoal, rock, etc. Anchor buoy, a buoy attached to, ormarking the position of, an anchor.-- Bell buoy, a large buoy on which a bell is mounted, to be rung bythe motion of the waves.-- Breeches buoy. See under Breeches.-- Cable buoy, an empty cask employed to buoy up the cable in rockyanchorage.-- Can buoy, a hollow buoy made of sheet or boiler iron, usuallyconical or pear-shaped.-- Life buoy, a float intended to support persons who have falleninto the water, until a boat can be dispatched to save them.-- Nut or Nun buoy, a buoy large in the middle, and tapering nearlyto a point at each end.-- To stream the buoy, to let the anchor buoy fall by the ship'sside into the water, before letting go the anchor.-- Whistling buoy, a buoy fitted with a whistle that is blown by theaction of the waves. Source: adambom

12. v:44/n:56 n. bright-colored; a float attached by rope to the seabed to mark channels in a harbor or underwater hazards v. float on the surface of water v. keep afloat v. mark with a buoy Source: ecdict

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