buoy
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: human-sciences
linguistics
nautical
sciences
transport
Etymology: From Middle English boy, boye, from Middle Dutch boeye (“float, buoy”), from Old French boue (“piece of wood or cork that floats above an anchor to indicate where it is anchored”) (modern French bouée), ultimately from Frankish *baukn (“beacon”), from Proto-Germanic *baukną. Doublet of beacon.
Alternatively, and perhaps less likely (due to the unexplained shift in meaning), from Middle Dutch boeye (“shackle, fetter”), from Old French buie (“fetter, chain”), from Latin boia (“a (leather) collar, band, fetter”), from Ancient Greek βόεος (bóeos), βόειος (bóeios, “of ox-hide”), from βοῦς (boûs, “ox”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷṓws (“cow”).
Noun sense 2 was coined by American linguist Scott K. Lindell in 2003.
Inflected forms:
form: buoys
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: buoys
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: buoying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: buoyed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: buoyed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A float moored in water to mark a location, warn of danger, indicate a navigational channel or for other purposes
pos: noun
examples: While comm buoys allow rapid transmission, there is a finite amount of bandwidth available. Given that trillions of people may be trying to pass a message through a given buoy at any one time, access to the network is parceled out on priority tiers.
Texas began deploying chains of specially designed buoys down the middle of the Rio Grande near Eagle Pass to deter migrants from crossing illegally in June 2023, sparking protests from migrant activists and from the Mexican government.
gloss: A float moored in water to mark a location, warn of danger, indicate a navigational channel or for other purposes
pos: noun
gloss: A sign where the non-dominant hand is held in a stationary configuration as a landmark for meaning associations with the dominant hand.
pos: noun
examples: list buoy
gloss: To keep afloat or aloft; used with up.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To support or maintain at a high level.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: “My Heart Will Go On” debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 on Feb. 28, 1998, buoying the Titanic soundtrack’s 16-week run atop the Billboard 200.
gloss: To mark with a buoy.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to buoy an anchor; to buoy or buoy off a channel
Not one rock near the surface was discovered which was not buoyed by this floating weed.
gloss: To maintain or enhance enthusiasm or confidence; to lift the spirits of.
pos: verb
examples: Buoyed by the huge success, they announced two other projects.
This dynamic stage of the ongoing struggle for long-denied democratic rights and national liberation helped inspire and buoy many in the U.S. and around the world who longed for social and economic justice.
It ended up being a bittersweet night for England, full of goals to send the crowd home happy, buoyed by the news that Montenegro and Poland had drawn elsewhere in Group H but also with a measure of regret about what happened to Danny Welbeck and what it means for Roy Hodgson's team going into a much more difficult assignment against Ukraine.
Considering the results of the study, today John may be buoyed at the clear trend of increasing numbers of new “lishes” for each successive decade since the 1950s, and the fact that nothing in the data suggests this trend is likely to falter.
Fancett is clearly buoyed by the support. "I believe the people of Newbiggin[-by-the-Sea] want it. Newbiggin Council wants to see it [the line] extended.
Derived words: anchor buoy
bell buoy
breeches buoy
buoyage
buoyancy
buoyant
buoylike
buoy rope
buoy tender
cable buoy
can buoy
conical buoy
dan buoy
depicting buoy
fragment buoy
lifebuoy
life buoy
life-buoy
light buoy
list buoy
mooring buoy
nun buoy
pointer buoy
pull buoy
ring buoy
safety buoy
sonobuoy
spar buoy
stream the buoy
theme buoy
whistling buoy
buoy up
upbuoy
Translations:
lang: Afrikaans
word: boei
lang: Albanian
word: bovë
lang: Arabic
word: شَمَنْدُورَة
roman: šamandūra
lang: Arabic
word: عَوَّامَة
roman: ʕawwāma
lang: Armenian
word: ծփան
roman: cpʻan
lang: Asturian
word: boya
lang: Azerbaijani
word: şamandıra
lang: Basque
word: buia
lang: Belarusian
word: буй
roman: buj
lang: Bulgarian
word: шамандура
roman: šamandura
lang: Bulgarian
word: буй
roman: buj
lang: Catalan
word: boia
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 浮標 /浮标
roman: fúbiāo
lang: Czech
word: bóje
lang: Danish
word: bøje
lang: Dutch
word: boei
lang: Esperanto
word: buo
lang: Esperanto
word: naĝobarelo
lang: Estonian
word: poi
lang: Finnish
word: poiju
lang: Finnish
word: reimari
lang: French
word: bouée
lang: French
word: flotteur
lang: French
word: balise
lang: Galician
word: boia
lang: Georgian
word: ტივტივა
roman: ṭivṭiva
lang: German
word: Boje
lang: German
word: Tonne
lang: Greek
word: σημαδούρα
roman: simadoúra
lang: Hawaiian
word: poe
lang: Hebrew
word: מצוף
roman: matzof
lang: Hungarian
word: bója
lang: Icelandic
word: bauja
lang: Icelandic
word: dufl
lang: Ido
word: boyo
lang: Ingrian
word: veha
lang: Ingrian
word: buju
lang: Irish
word: baoi
lang: Italian
word: boa
lang: Japanese
word: ブイ
roman: bui
lang: Japanese
word: 浮標
roman: fuhyō
lang: Korean
word: 부표
roman: bupyo
lang: Korean
word: 부이
roman: bu'i
lang: Latin
word: attollo
lang: Lithuanian
word: plūduras
lang: Lithuanian
word: buja
lang: Macedonian
word: пловка
roman: plovka
lang: Malay
word: pelampung
lang: Marshallese
word: buwae
lang: Norman
word: boule
lang: Norman
word: bondé
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: bøye
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: bøye
lang: Persian
word: بویه
roman: boye
lang: Polish
word: boja
lang: Polish
word: pława
lang: Portuguese
word: boia
lang: Romanian
word: geamandură
lang: Russian
word: буй
roman: buj
lang: Russian
word: буёк
roman: bujók
lang: Russian
word: ба́кен
roman: báken
lang: Samoan
word: poe
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: plovak
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: plutača
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: bova
lang: Slovene
word: boja
lang: Lower Sorbian
word: boja
lang: Spanish
word: boya
lang: Swahili
word: boya
lang: Swedish
word: boj
lang: Tagalog
word: palutang
lang: Turkish
word: şamandıra
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: شماندره
roman: şamandra, şamandara, şamandıra
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: شماندوره
roman: şamandura
lang: Ukrainian
word: буй
roman: buj
lang: Uyghur
word: لەيمىلەك
roman: Leymilek
lang: Vietnamese
word: phao
lang: Welsh
word: bwi