noun
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A float moored in water to mark a location, warn of danger, or indicate a navigational channel.
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A life-buoy; a life preserver.
verb
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To keep afloat or aloft; used with up.
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To support or maintain at a high level.
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To mark with a buoy.
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to buoy an anchor; to buoy or buoy off a channel
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To maintain or enhance enthusiasm or confidence; to lift the spirits of.
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Buoyed by the huge success, they announced two other projects.
Examples of buoy in a Sentence
The yellow buoy can be seen in the center of the picture.
She was worried and tired already, and his latest jab didn't buoy her spirits at all.
Click on the buoy icon that reads, "Get on Board."
She swims out to the buoy, and while he is asleep on the beach, she fights a losing battle against an unseen predator.
The buoy was then redeployed in exactly the same spot several hours later, without the heaving line!
Another buoy is then lowered to mark this spot, and the cable on the other side of the fracture grappled for, brought to the surface, and, if communication is found perfect with the shore, buoyed with sufficient chain and rope attached to allow of the cable itself reaching the bottom.
The low clouds and drizzle made visibility difficult, and the Stroom Bank buoy could not be seen at first.
Godsal continued on his course for two minutes, when he sighted the Stroom Bank buoy to the N.E.
Commander Godsal steered from the buoy for the supposed direction of the harbour.
News had previously come in that the Stroom Bank buoy had been removed, and Lt.
They serve to buoy up the plant when attached to the sea-bottom, and thus light is admitted into the forest-like growths of the gregarious species.
The buoy was then redeployed in exactly the same spot several hours later, without the heaving line !
So what about " pressing the buoy " - " weightless arms " - " hand swapping " and stroke counting.
Worse still, a navigational buoy had been moved and the requisite chart corrections were lacking.
A buoy is attached to the forward port lifeboat davit.
A series of shackles and wires are attached and the buoy is pulled in using the stern gantry.
The buoy was snared by the happy hooker, a line was attached to its uppermost part and we started to haul in.
The yachts are moored on swing moored on swing moorings, attached to a buoy in the harbor, not moored alongside a jetty.
What they didn't say was that the first red buoy marks the sewage outfall!
Another buoy is put down marking this position, fixing at the same time the actual line of the cable.