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Definition: Life Buoy |
Life BuoyNoun1. A life preserver in the form of a ring of buoyant material. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: Life BuoySynonyms: life belt (n), life ring (n), lifesaver (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Refuge | Means of escape; (escape) lifeboat, lifejacket, life buoy, swimming belt, cork jacket; parachute, plank, steppingstone; emergency landing. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Life Buoy |
| English words defined with "life buoy": Breeches buoy. (references) |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
life buoy | 12 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "life buoy"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | طافية النجاة. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | záchranný kruh. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | bouée de sauvetage. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | מצוף "צל". (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | mentõbója, mentõöv (lifebelt). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | salvagente (life preserver, lifebelt, lifejacket, refuge, traffic island). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 浮袋 (bladder, swimming belt, swimming float), 浮き輪 (float), 浮き袋 (bladder, swimming belt, swimming float). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | うきぶくろ (bladder, swimming belt, swimming float), うきわ (float). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ifelay uoybay bóia de salvamento. (various references) colac de salvare (safety belt). (various references) спасательный круг (life-buoy). (various references) bova za spasavanje. (various references) cankurtaran simidi. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-e-f-i-l-o-u-y" | |
-2 letters: befoul, foible. | |
-3 letters: bluey, boule, louie, obeli. | |
-4 letters: bile, blue, boil, bole, buoy, file, filo, fley, floe, flub, flue, foil, foul, fuel, lief, lieu, life, lobe, lube, obey, oily, yule. | |
-5 letters: bel, bey, bio, boy, buy, bye, elf, feu, fey, fib, fie, fil, flu, fly, fob, foe, fou, foy, fub, lei, leu, ley, lib. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4C 69 66 65 42 75 6F 79 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001100 01101001 01100110 01100101 00100000 01000010 01110101 01101111 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)L i f e   B u o y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004C 0069 0066 0065 0042 0075 006F 0079 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)46757271236878191 |
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