Definitions for buoy
ˈbu i, bɔɪbuoy

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:5.0 / 1 vote

1. buoyverb

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

2. buoyverb

   float on the surface of water

3. buoy, buoy upverb

   keep afloat

   "The life vest buoyed him up"

4. buoyverb

   mark with a buoy

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. buoynoun

   A float moored in water to mark a location, warn of danger, or indicate a navigational channel.

2. buoynoun

   A life-buoy.

3. buoyverb

   To keep afloat or aloft.

4. buoyverb

   To support or maintain at a high level.

5. buoyverb

   To mark with a buoy.

6. Etymology: From buoy 'a float', from boeye 'a float, signal; line, tether' (cf. boei 'buoy'), from boie, buie 'line, fetter, chain', from boia 'fetters', originally, 'leather collar for the neck', from Ancient Greek 'strap of ox-leather', from 'ox'. More at cow.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. BUOYnoun

   A piece of cork or wood floating on the water, tied to a weight at the bottom.

   Etymology: bouë, or boye, Fr. boya, Span.

   The fishermen, that walk upon the beach,
   Appear like mice; and yond tall anchoring bark
   Diminish’d to her cock; her cock a buoy,
   Almost too small for sight. William Shakespeare, King Lear.

   Like buoys, that never sink into the flood,
   On learning’s surface we but lie and nod. Alexander Pope, Dunciad.

2. To Buoyverb

   To keep afloat; to bear up by specifick lightness.

   Etymology: from the noun.

   All art is used to sink episcopacy, and launch presbytery in England; which was lately buoyed up in Scotland, by the like artifice of a covenant. Charles I .

   The water which rises out of the abyss, for the supply of springs and rivers, would not have stopped at the surface of the earth, but marched directly up into the atmosphere, wherever there was heat enough in the air to continue its ascent, and buoy it up. John Woodward, Nat. Hist.

3. To Buoyverb

   To float.

   Rising merit will buoy up at last. Alexander Pope, Essay on Crit.

WikipediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Buoy

   A buoy () is a floating device that can have many purposes. It can be anchored (stationary) or allowed to drift with ocean currents.

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1. buoy

   A buoy is a floating device that can have different purposes such as to mark safe or unsafe areas, to indicate the presence of marine life, to provide weather data, or to assist in navigation. They are anchored at specific locations in the sea, lakes or rivers. Buoys can also be used in swimming pools for marking lanes.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Buoynoun

   a float; esp. 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

2. Buoyverb

   to keep from sinking in a fluid, as in water or air; to keep afloat; -- with up

3. Buoyverb

   to support or sustain; to preserve from sinking into ruin or despondency

4. Buoyverb

   to fix buoys to; to mark by a buoy or by buoys; as, to buoy an anchor; to buoy or buoy off a channel

5. Buoyverb

   to float; to rise like a buoy

WikidataRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Buoy

   A buoy is a floating device that can have many purposes. It can be anchored or allowed to drift with the sea wave. The word, of Old French or Middle Dutch origin, is now most commonly pronounced in UK English, although some orthoepists have traditionally prescribed the pronunciation. The pronunciation, while chiefly American, more closely resembles the modern French bouée.

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Buoy

   boi, n. a floating cask or light piece of wood fastened by a rope or chain to indicate shoals, the position of a ship's anchor, &c.—v.t. to fix buoys or marks: to keep afloat, bear up, or sustain: to raise the spirits.—ns. Buoy′age, a series of buoys or floating beacons to mark the course for vessels: the providing of buoys; Buoy′ancy, capacity for floating lightly on water or in the air: specific lightness: (fig.) lightness of spirit, cheerfulness.—adj. Buoy′ant, light: cheerful.—n. Buoy′antness. [Dut. boei, buoy, fetter, through Romance forms (Norman boie), from Low L. boia, a collar of leather.]

Dictionary of Nautical TermsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. buoy

   A sort of close cask, or block of wood, fastened by a rope to the anchor, to show its situation after being cast, that the ship may not come so near it as to entangle her cable about its stock or flukes.--To buoy a cable is to make fast a spar, cask, or the like, to the bight of the cable, in order to prevent its galling or rubbing on the bottom. When a buoy floats on the water it is said to watch. When a vessel slips her cable she attaches a buoy to it in order afterwards to recover it. Thus the blockading squadrons off Brest and in Basque Roads frequently slipped, by signal, and each in beautiful order returned and picked up their cables.--To stream the buoy is to let it fall from the ship's side into the water, which is always done before the anchor is let go, that it may not be fouled by the buoy-rope as it sinks to the bottom.--Buoys of various kinds are also placed upon rocks or sand-banks to direct mariners where to avoid danger.

Surnames Frequency by Census RecordsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. BUOY

   According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Buoy is ranked #49268 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
   
   The Buoy surname appeared 427 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Buoy.
   
   74.2% or 317 total occurrences were White.
   8.2% or 35 total occurrences were Black.
   7.2% or 31 total occurrences were Asian.
   4.4% or 19 total occurrences were of two or more races.
   3.5% or 15 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.
   2.3% or 10 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.

Matched Categories

1. • Float
   • Mark

How to pronounce buoy?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

How to say buoy in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of buoy in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of buoy in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of buoy in a Sentence

1. Barry Svrluga:

   He was in the Navy and he was in a sub-chaser ship, he describes in these journals these night-after-night runs to the coast of France to set buoy markers.

2. Le Cun:

   There is an eight-foot buoy floating at the point of the intake piping, which has been in place since the plant opened, and states that people should stay 100 feet away. There are three intake pipes, which extend for a quarter mile along the floor of the ocean, and the one that the diver swam into is 16 feet in diameter with a protective cap.

3. Jennifer Lehr:

   The message a child gets is that not only is another person's emotional state their responsibility but that they must also sacrifice their own bodies to buoy another's ego or satisfy their desire for love or affection, certainly no parent would wish for their teenager or adult child to feel pressure to reciprocate unwanted sexual advances, yet many teach their children at a young age that it's their job to use their bodies to make others happy.

4. Le Cun:

   I am 100% positive that there were no signs on the buoy, i know that because my boat was tied to that buoy.

5. Avtar Sandu:

   Normally it takes at least two quarters before things start to pick up but there's always hope for new stimulus in the market that will buoy the economy.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=buoy
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Buoy
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=buoy
4. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buoy
5. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
6. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/buoy
7. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=buoy
8. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=buoy
9. ^ Dictionary of Nautical Terms
   https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/26000/pg26000-images.html#:~:text=buoy
10. ^ Surnames Frequency by Census Records
    https://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/2010_surnames.html