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buoy 中文解釋 wordnet sense Collocation Usage Collins Definition
Verb
/ˈbo͞o-ē/,/boi/,
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buoys, plural;
  1. Keep (someone or something) afloat
    • - I let the water buoy up my weight
  2. Cause to become cheerful or confident
    • - the party was buoyed by an election victory
  3. Cause (a price) to rise to or remain at a high level
    • - the price is buoyed up by investors
  4. Mark with a buoy
    • - a buoyed channel
Noun
  1. An anchored float serving as a navigation mark, to show reefs or other hazards, or for mooring


  1. bright-colored; a float attached by rope to the seabed to mark channels in a harbor or underwater hazards
  2. float on the surface of water
  3. keep afloat; "The life vest buoyed him up"
  4. mark with a buoy
  5. A buoy is a floating device that can have many different purposes. It can be anchored (stationary) or allowed to drift. ...
  6. Buøy is an island and neighborhood (delområde) in the borough Hundvåg in Stavanger, Norway.
  7. (The Buoys) The Buoys was a progressive rock band from the early 1970s. Its membership included Bill Kelly, Fran Brozena, Jerry Hludzik, Carl Siracuse and Chris Hanlon, based in the Wilkes-Barre-Scranton, Pennsylvania area.
  8. A float moored in water to mark a location, warn of danger, or indicate a navigational channel; A lifebuoy; To keep afloat or aloft; To support or maintain at a high level; To mark with a buoy
  9. (Buoys) Floating platforms that hold instruments for measuring conditions in the ocean and atmosphere such as currents, water temperature, wind, and atmospheric pressure. Often they relay information to satellites.
  10. (Buoys) Floats that warn of hazards such as rocks or shallow ground, to help ships maneuver through unfamiliar harbors.
  11. A floating device used as a navigational aid by marking channels, hazards and prohibited areas.
  12. An anchored flotation sphere used to mark a position in the water
  13. An anchored floating object that serves as a navigation aid. Also used to mark a mooring spot.
  14. a stationary floating object used as an aid for navigation. back
  15. A floating marker in the water.
  16. An important marker that tells navigators where they should travel. The markings and colours of buoys are signals to move in closer, move further away or travel between two points of land for safety. Some buoys have signal lights so that they may be seen in the fog and dark.
  17. a distinctively marked object that floats in the water as a navigational marker.
  18. is a floating Cask, or such like, which is moored at a Sand bank, to warn Shipping against it. Also used to every Anchor, in order to shew where the Anchor lies.
  19. A floating object employed as an aid to mariners to mark the navigable limits of channels, their fairways, sunken dangers, isolated rocks, telegraph cables, and the like; floating devices fixed in place at sea, lake or river as reference points for navigation or for other purposes.
  20. Nowadays most commonly used to mark and secure cable ends.
  21. a plastic, air inflated ball that holds up the end of the set net
  22. (pronounced bü-ē) a rounded cork shaped object that is usually made of styrofoam that can float. Buoys are tied with rope to traps to mark where they are in the water.  Each fisherman has a particular colour scheme for their buoys so that they can distinguish whose is whose.
  23. A floating object anchored in a body of water to warn of a hazard, define a channel, or mark the placement of a fishing net or trap; buoys are variously shaped and colored, and often equipped with a bell or light while others are equipped with instruments to collect sea and weather data in oceans
  24. A floating body employed to point out the particular situation of anything under water.
  25. An anchored float used for marking a postition on the water or a hazard or a shoal and for mooring