Buoy

Definition: Buoy

Buoy

Noun

1. Bright-colored; a float attached by rope to the seabed to mark channels in a harbor or underwater hazards.

Verb

1. Float on the surface of water.

2. Keep afloat: "The life vest buoyed him up".

3. Mark with a buoy.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "buoy" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Etymology: Buoy \Buoy\, noun. [D. boei buoy, fetter, from Old French boie, buie, chain, fetter, French bou['e]e a buoy, from Latin boia. ``Boiae genus vinculorum tam ferreae quam ligneae.'' --Festus. So called because chained to its place.]. (references)

Food & Agriculture

Language

Transportation

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Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonym: Buoy

Elevation

Verb: heighten, elevate, raise, lift, erect; set up, stick up, perch up, perk up, tilt up; rear, hoist, heave; uplift, upraise, uprear, upbear, upcast, uphoist, upheave; buoy, weigh mount, give a lift; exalt; sublimate; place on a pedestal, set on a pedestal.

Hope

Give hope, inspire hope, raise hope, hold out hope; Noun: promise, bid fair, augur well, be in a fair way, look up, flatter, tell a flattering tale; raise expectations; encourage, cheer, assure, reassure, buoy up, embolden.

Levity

Feather, dust, mote, down, thistle, down, flue, cobweb, gossamer, straw, cork, bubble, balloon; float, buoy; ether, air.

Refuge

Means of escape; (escape) lifeboat, lifejacket, life buoy, swimming belt, cork jacket; parachute, plank, steppingstone; emergency landing.

Crosswords: Buoy

Get Buoy (1924)

Working the Breeches Buoy (1901)

The Breeches Buoy (1899)

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Books

• Buoy Engineering (Ocean Engineering, a Wiley Series) (reference)

• Help me, Charley Buoy (reference)

• Lake Mead National Recreation Area, Arizona/Nevada: Up-To-Date Lake, Buoy and Cove Guide and Visitor Information: Trails Illustrated Topo Maps (REV) (reference)

• Mad About the Buoy (reference)

• Red Eye Buoy (reference)

  (more book examples)

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Conducting range-azimuth hydrography from buoy in Indian River Inlet Party off of PEIRCE. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Planting a survey signal buoy Off LYDONIA or NATOMA. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

View of Cruger's Island, from near Hog's Back Buoy. On the Hudson River. In: Atlantic Local Coast Pilot Sub-Division 13 South Coast of Long Island New York Bay and Hudson River 1880. P. 612. Library Call Number VK981.A3 1879 Sub-13 2nd ed. 1880. Credit: America's Coastlines.

Meteorological buoy ready for deployment off of MILLER FREEMAN. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

Current buoy near Tacoma - at least a 5 knot current streaming by. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

Preparing to launch a buoy during Gulf Stream eddy studies from the stern of the NOAA Ship ALBATROSS IV. Credit: Fisheries.

Pheww!!! This buoy launching stuff is hard work. Crewman takes a break during Gulf Stream eddy studies while proceeding to another mooring site. Credit: Fisheries.

A mooring buoy put in place by the restoration team prevented the need to to place large potentially damaging anchors on the reef. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

HELOGOLAND's life support buoy provided power and communications. Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP).

Monster buoy stands watch and delivers life support to AQUARIUS. Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP).

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Economic History

El Salvador

Petroleum can be unloaded at an offshore buoy connected to the RASA (Esso-Shell) petroleum refinery. (references)

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Expressions using "buoy": acoustic buoy ♦ Anchor buoy ♦ bell buoy ♦ breeches buoy ♦ buoy beacon ♦ buoy out ♦ buoy smth. out ♦ buoy up ♦ buoy up with hope ♦ Cable buoy ♦ can buoy ♦ conical buoy ♦ datum dan buoy ♦ gong buoy ♦ life buoy ♦ mooring buoy ♦ nun buoy ♦ nut buoy ♦ safety buoy ♦ short scope buoy ♦ spar buoy ♦ To stream the buoy ♦ whistle buoy ♦ whistling buoy ♦ winter buoy. Additional references.

Beginning with "buoy": Buoy-ed.

Ending with "buoy": nuns-buoy, single-buoy.

Albanian

bovë (Dan, dolphin), vozë mbi ujë, shënoj me pluskuese. (various references)

Arabic 

‏زود بالطوافي, ‏عوامة الإنقاذ, ‏عوامة (fleet, float, pontoon, raft, water wings), ‏طافية, ‏أبقه طائفا. (various references)

Bulgarian 

спасителен пояс (float, life preserver, lifebelt, scaphander), шамандура (drogue, float), поставям шамандури, повдигам духа на (elate, rally), поддържам (adhere, atlas, back, bear, carry, contend, expound, favour, feed, fuel, help on, hold, hold up, keep, keep up, maintain, nourish, play along, ply, promote, prop up, pull for, retain, run, service, side with, stand for, stand in with, support, sustain, take, upbear, uphold, vindicate, vouch). (various references)

Chinese 

浮標 , 浮体. (various references)

Czech

bóje. (various references)

Danish

bøje (be inclined, bend, incline). (various references)

Dutch

boei (fetter, shackle). (various references)

Esperanto

buo, naĝbarelo. (various references)

Faeroese

boya, dupul. (various references)

Farsi 

کویچه , جسم شناور (Drift), رهنمای شناور, روی اب نگاهداشتن , روابی , شناورساختن . (various references)

Finnish

poiju, viitoittaa (mark out, stake out). (various references)

French

baliser, bouée. (various references)

Frisian

beaken. (various references)

German

boje, tonne (barrel, bin, butt, can, cask, drum, ton, tub, tun). (various references)

Greek 

σημαδούρα (float). (various references)

Hebrew 

מצוף (float), צף (afloat, float, floating, natant). (various references)

Hungarian

bója (leading mark). (various references)

Indonesian

timbul lagi, pengapung (raft), pelampung (quill). (various references)

Italian

gavitello (beacon), boa (beacon, boa, constrictor, dolphin). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

ブーリアン関数 (boogie, boogie-woogie, Boole, boolean function, bouillabaisse, bouillon, boulevard, Budapest, butadiene, butane, buzzer, ugly woman, V neck, vertical take-of and landing, VTOL, V-turn), 浮標　, 浮標 , 浮き (float). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ブイ , うき (float, rainy season, signs of rain, threatening to rain), ふひょう (a tag or label, appended chart or table or graph, attached list, bad reputation, disgrace, floating, ice floe, pawn, score, staff, unpopularity). (various references)

Korean 

부표. (various references)

Manx

mollag (float), cur magh booieyn (buoying), booie stiuree. (various references)

Papiamen

bui. (various references)

Pig Latin

uoybay.(various references)

Portuguese

bóia (float), flutuador (dasher). (various references)

Romanian

balizã (float, landmark, sea mark), susţine (advocate, affirm, allege, argue, assert, back, back up, bear, bear up, bolster, buttress, carry, champion, claim, contend, countenance, defend, encourage, endorse, entertain, Favor, favour, fortify, give countenance to smb., hold, hold up, maintain, pep, promote, prop, reinforce, sanction, second, speed, sponsor, submit, support, underlie, uphold, vindicate), menţine la suprafaţa apei, marca cu geamanduri, geamandurã. (various references)

Russian 

буй. (various references)

Scottish

pùt (a large buoy, young of moorfowl). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

bova (beacon), podizati raspoloženje, plutati (float), plutača. (various references)

Spanish

boya (blister), balizar (beacon), baliza (beacon). (various references)

Swedish

boj (baize, drogue, float, nun buoy). (various references)

Thai

ทุ่น, ลอยตัว (buoyant). (various references)

Turkish

yüzdürmek (float, sail, swim), su üzerinde tutmak, desteklemek (advocate, assist, back up, bear out, bear smb. out, bolster, bolster up, brace, buttress, champion, countenance, encourage, endorse, Favor, favour, fortify, give a leg up, give countenance to, go along with, help forward, hold up, identify, indorse, keep smb. in countenance, lend countenance to, logroll, nourish, patronize, promote, prop, root for, second, shore, sponsor, spoonfeed, stake, stanchion, stand, stand by, start, stick up for, strengthen, subordinate, support, sustain, underpin, uphold), şamandıra ile işaret koymak (buoy out), şamandıra (float, makefast, moorings, pontoon). (various references)

Ukrainian

ставити бакени, рятувальний круг (lifebuoy), віха (beacon, dool, landmark, pole), буй (beacon, float), бакен (beacon). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "buoy": buoyage, buoyages, buoyance, buoyances, buoyancies, buoyancy, buoyant, buoyantly, buoyed, buoying, buoys. (additional references)

Words ending with "buoy": sonobuoy. (additional references)

Words containing "buoy": sonobuoys. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Buoy" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: bayo, Beuy, Bhoy, bioy, biui, biyo, Bloy, booly, Booy, booya, bou, bouc, boucy, boudy, bouey, bouie, bouih, boup, Bouvy, Bouw, bouy, bouzy, boyf, boyo, boyu, bquo, broy, buay, Buco, buety, buey, buko, buky, buly, buoa, buoey, buoz, butoh, buudy, Buyo, buzy, byou, byoy, Mboui, ubo. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: boy, buy, yob, you.

-2 letters: bo, by, oy, yo.

+1 letter: bayou, bousy, buoys, outby.

+2 letters: bayous, blousy, bouncy, bounty, buoyed, busboy, buyout, doubly, outbuy, outbye.

+3 letters: buoyage, buoyant, buoying, busboys, buttony, buxomly, buyouts, hautboy, obloquy, obsequy, outbuys, overbuy, solubly, volubly.

+4 letters: bihourly, bistoury, blousily, bodysuit, bodysurf, bouldery, bouncily, boundary, broguery, buckayro, bullocky, bullyboy, buoyages, buoyance, buoyancy, busybody, busywork, butyrous, doughboy, hautboys, honeybun, houseboy, layabout, obduracy, obituary, obtusely, obtusity, outbully, overbusy, overbuys, quotably, robustly, sonobuoy, unbloody, unbouncy.