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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. (buoy) bright-colored; a float attached by rope to the seabed to mark channels in a harbor or underwater hazards
  2. (buoy) float on the surface of water
  3. (buoy) keep afloat; "The life vest buoyed him up"
  4. (buoy) mark with a buoy
  5. 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.
  6. A buoy is a floating device that can have many different purposes. It can be anchored (stationary) or allowed to drift. ...
  7. Buøy is an island and neighborhood (delområde) in the borough Hundvåg in Stavanger, Norway.
  8. (buoy) 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. (buoy) A floating device used as a navigational aid by marking channels, hazards and prohibited areas.
  10. (buoy) Any floating object anchored in one place to mark a position or provide a mooring.
  11. (buoy) floating navigational marker.
  12. (Buoy) An anchored flotation sphere used to mark a position in the water
  13. (BUOY) A float; especially a floating object moored to the bottom, to mark a CHANNEL, anchor, SHOAL, ROCK, etc. ...
  14. (Buoy) A floating marker in the water.
  15. (buoy) An anchored floating object that serves as a navigation aid. Also used to mark a mooring spot.
  16. (A Buoy) 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.
  17. (BUOY) A floating mark or mooring  anchored in place sometimes with whistles or bells
  18. (BUOY) 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.
  19. (Buoy (Cable)) Nowadays most commonly used to mark and secure cable ends.
  20. (Buoy) (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.
  21. (Buoy) A float that is attached by a line to the sea bottom
  22. (Buoy) A floating body employed to point out the particular situation of anything under water.
  23. (Buoy) 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.
  24. (Buoy) Any object floating as a marker and anchored to the bottom. It may be used as a navigational aid, a means of mooring or as an indicator of a racing course.
  25. (Buoy) Round or spherical marker used to indicate paths for contestant and tow boat in slalom and to outline limits in jump course. Usually red and yellow, made of plastic and 9 inches in diameter.