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

n. A life buoy.

v. To keep afloat or aloft: a glider buoyed by air currents.

v. To maintain at a high level; support: "the persistent ... takeover speculation, which has buoyed up the shares of banks” ( Financial Times).

v. To hearten or inspire; uplift: "buoyed up by the team spirit and the pride of the older generation back at home” ( Judith Martin).

v. To mark with or as if with a buoy.

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

n. A life-buoy.

v. To keep afloat or aloft.

v. To support or maintain at a high level.

v. To mark with a buoy.

n. 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.

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

v. To support or sustain; to preserve from sinking into ruin or despondency.

v. To fix buoys to; to mark by a buoy or by buoys.

verb-intransitive. To float; to rise like a buoy.

n. A float fixed at a certain place to show the position of objects beneath the water, as shoals, rocks, etc., to mark out a channel, and the like

n. A buoyant object designed to be thrown from a vessel to assist a person who has fallen into the water to keep himself afloat; a life-buoy.

To support by a buoy or as by a buoy; keep afloat in a fluid; bear up or keep from sinking in a fluid, as in water or air: generally with up.

Figuratively, to support or sustain in any sense; especially, to sustain mentally; keep from falling into despondency or discouragement: generally with up.

To fix buoys in as a direction to mariners: as, to buoy or to buoy off a channel.

To float; rise by reason of lightness.

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

v. float on the surface of water

v. keep afloat

v. mark with a buoy

"The flag of the first buoy is scarlet and the ball is under the flag."

nun buoy   

buoyed    buoying    buoys   

swim    float    support    sustain    hold    holdup    mark   

luminous buoy    automatic buoy    spherical buoy    to bleed a buoy    to stream a buoy    swinging-buoys    electric buoy    to buoy a cable   

buoyed    buoying    bell buoy    life buoy    can buoy    conical buoy    buoy up    ring buoy    breeches buoy   

float    dan    dolphin    nun    nut buoy    can buoy    spar buoy    bell buoy   

Bluey    Dewey    Fukui    Huey    Hughie    Louis    Sui    bluey    chewy    dewy   

lifeboat    beacon    countermeasures    roadstead    datalink    breakwater    bleep