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buoy

noun

1 buoy

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

Roget 320: levity; lightness etc. adj.; imponderability, buoyancy, volatility.    feather, dust, mote, down, thistle, down, flue, ... show more

Dutch: boei, keerboei, ton
Polish: pława, pływak, boja

verb

1 buoy

Float on the surface of water.

Roget 307: heighten, elevate, raise, lift, erect; set up, stick up, perch up, perk up, tilt up; rear, hoist, heave; ... show more

2 buoy

Keep afloat:
— The life vest buoyed him up.

synonym: buoy up.

Dutch: stutten

3 buoy

Mark with a buoy.

Dutch: afbakenen, markeren


Moby thesaurus: Carling float, Mae West, Roman candle, aid to navigation, alarm, amber light, balefire, balsa, balsa raft, beacon, beacon fire, bear up, bell, bell buoy, blinker, blue peter, bob, boom, breeches buoy, buoy up ... show more.

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