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To mark with a buoy
A float moored in water to mark a location, warn of danger, or indicate a navigational channel
{n} a floating cask or light piece of wood fastened over an anchor or shoal water for a direction, or to bear a cable
{v} to keep afloat, float, support, uphold
To support or maintain at a high level
A float; especially a floating object moored to the bottom, to mark a CHANNEL, anchor, SHOAL, ROCK, etc Some common types include: a nun or nut buoy is conical in shape; a can buoy is squat and cylindrical above water and conical below water; a spar buoy is a vertical, slender spar anchored at one end; a bell buoy, bearing a bell, runs mechanically or by the action of WAVES, usually marks SHOALS or ROCKS; a whistling buoy, similarly operated, marks SHOALS or channel entrances; a dan buoy carries a pole with a flag or light on it
a floating platform for navigational purposes or supporting scientific instruments that measure environmental conditions
bright-colored; a float attached by rope to the seabed to mark channels in a harbor or underwater hazards mark with a buoy keep afloat; "The life vest buoyed him up"
Navigational aid There are several types and colors of buoys of which the most numerous are: the black can (seen as a fuzzy black spot on the horizon) the red nun (seen as a fuzzy black spot on the horizon) the red or green day beacon(seen as a fuzzy black spot on the horizon), and the vertically striped black-and-white channel marker (seen as a fuzzy black spot on the horizon)
bright-colored; a float attached by rope to the seabed to mark channels in a harbor or underwater hazards
A distinctly shaped and marked float, sometimes carrying a signal or signals, anchored to mark a channel, anchorage, navigational hazard, etc , or to provide a mooring place away from shore (Stein 1973)
(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
mark with a buoy
A marker used for navigation, mooring, or racing around
An anchored float used for marking a position on the water or a hazardor a shoal and for mooring
float on the surface of water
{f} keep afloat; support, sustain, encourage
A buoy is a floating object that is used to show ships and boats where they can go and to warn them of danger
To keep afloat or aloft
An anchored floating object that serves as a navigation aid Also used to mark a mooring spot
A lifebuoy
To support or sustain; to preserve from sinking into ruin or despondency
a floating device used to mark a turning point on a racecourse
If someone in a difficult situation is buoyed by something, it makes them feel more cheerful and optimistic. In May they danced in the streets, buoyed by their victory German domestic consumption buoyed the German economy. Buoy up means the same as buoy. They are buoyed up by a sense of hope. an object that floats on the sea, a lake etc to mark a safe or dangerous area (Probably from boye, boeie, from boia ; because a buoy is kept in place with a chain)
{i} anchored float used as a guide to navigators
To fix buoys to; to mark by a buoy or by buoys; as, to buoy an anchor; to buoy or buoy off a channel
keep afloat; "The life vest buoyed him up"
A float; esp
Warning float moored on a dangerous rock, shoal, or edge of a channel
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
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
a floating marker in the water, as in: When they saw the buoy, they knew they were entering the channel
A float; especially a floating object moored to the bottom, to mark a CHANNEL, anchor, shoal rock, etc Some common types include: a nun or nut buoy is conical in shape; a can buoy is squat and cylindrical above water and conical below water; a spar buoy is a vertical, slender spar anchored at one end; a bell buoy, bearing a bell, runs mechanically or by the action of waves, usually marks shoals or rocks; a whistling buoy, similarly operated, marks shoals or channel entrances; a dan buoy carries a pole with a flag or light on it
Anchored floating object, marking a channel, hidden dangers, etc
To keep from sinking in a fluid, as in water or air; to keep afloat; with up
To float; to rise like a buoy
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