Definition of buoy
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Shakespeare Ranch features 200 feet of lakefront, seven guest houses, five private buoys and a 5,111 square-foot entertainment barn.
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Those buoys were ultimately ripped loose from their moorings by the storm.
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The two 21-year-olds might be considered lucky to be preparing to enter the workforce now, as a flood of European Central Bank stimulus cuts unemployment and buoys economic growth.
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Those buoys, seen in the image above, were ultimately ripped loose from their moorings by the storm.
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A generator hummed Thursday morning on the beach while men in wetsuits swam back and forth to the shore, yelling for a buoy or asking CRS President and owner Ron Romens when lunch was.
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But its popularity has waned, so the buoys are gone and boaters pulling into the cove now make their own judgment of whether to push on the throttle.
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Inside what looks like a little rubber buoy is a big, featherweight 20-liter dry bag that unfurls from a slot in its hollow silicone host.
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Another tanker, Asian Progress V, loaded crude from an offshore buoy at Ras Tanura Wednesday after taking on oil from Qatar’s Mesaieed terminal June 2, before the dispute broke out.
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Origin and Etymology of buoy
Middle English boye, probably from Middle Dutch boeye; akin to Old High German bouhhan sign — more at beacon
buoy
Definition of buoy
transitive verb
1 : to mark by or as if by a float or buoy buoy an anchor
2a : to keep afloat a raft buoyed by empty oil drumsb : support, uplift an economy buoyed by the dramatic postwar growth of industry — Time
3 : to raise the spirits of —usually used with up hope buoys him up
intransitive verb
: float —usually used with up They buoyed up like a cork.
Examples of buoy in a Sentence
The tax breaks should help to buoy the economy.
Recent Examples of buoy from the Web
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They were buoyed, however, when candidate Trump released his list of 21 prospective Supreme Court nominees, pledging to nominate Scalia’s replacement from that list.
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Firefighters arrived on the scene around 6:28 p.m. and saw the teen clinging to a warning marker buoy for a nearby dam, according to a press release.
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With a subsequent sales growth of 20%, business at Aerie has been booming since, buoying American Eagle (aeo, +2.07%), as sales have slipped at the rest of the retailer's brands.
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Buoyed by an excellent test there, Daly said his best hope for a great result is probably at Gateway Motorsports Park on Aug. 26.
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Buoyed by findings like these, a team of researchers across the country have embarked on a long-term study called the Comprehensive Assessment of Long-Term Effects of Reducing Intake of Energy—
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By 1987, Strait was firmly entrenched as one of the top artists in the format, and this single was a perfect complement of a down-home arrangement buoyed by his wry sense of humor.
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More: Still, the New York native also appeared to use this spring's pre-draft calendar to buoy that stock, turning heads in some workouts.
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Handel defeated Democrat Jon Ossoff in the most expensive congressional race in history, buoyed by a massive injection of GOP ad dollars which trounced spending on her rivals' behalf.
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Origin and Etymology of buoy
see 1buoy
BUOY Defined for English Language Learners
buoy
playDefinition of buoy for English Language Learners
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: an object that floats on water in a lake, bay, river, etc., to show areas that are safe or dangerous for boats
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Definition of buoy for English Language Learners
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: to cause (someone) to feel happy or confident
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: to lift or improve (something)
BUOY Defined for Kids
Definition of buoy for Students
buoyed
;buoying
1 : to keep from sinking : keep afloat
2 : to brighten the mood of … if hope had not buoyed me up, I must have … given up. — Robert Louis Stevenson, Kidnapped
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