| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. Of Buoy.[Websters]
2. To have supported, sustained, cheered, seconded or favoured. [Eve - graph theoretic] 3. To have propped or staked. [Eve - graph theoretic] 4. To have bolstered or endorsed. [Eve - graph theoretic] 5. To have marked, signalled, signaled, stamped or sealed. [Eve - graph theoretic] 6. To have backed or vindicated. [Eve - graph theoretic] 7. To have maintained or underpinned. [Eve - graph theoretic] 8. To have drifted or floated. [Eve - graph theoretic] 9. To have heartened or promoted.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Past Tense | 1. Past tense conjugation of the verb buoy.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (buoy) | 1. Float on the surface of water.[Wordnet]. 2. Keep afloat; "The life vest buoyed him up".[Wordnet]. 3. Mark with a buoy.[Wordnet]. 4. To keep from sinking in a fluid, as in water or air; to keep afloat; -- with up.[Websters]. 5. To support or sustain; to preserve from sinking into ruin or despondency.[Websters]. 6. To fix buoys to; to mark by a buoy or by buoys; as, to buoy an anchor; to buoy or buoy off a channel.[Websters]. 7. To float; to rise like a buoy.[Websters]. 8. Base verb from the following inflections: buoying, buoyed, buoys, buoyer, buoyers, buoyingly and buoyedly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), compiled from various sources, under license. | Top | |
Date "BUOYED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1647. (references) |
Specialty Definition: buoy
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Administration | (Nautical) A float, often having a bell or light, moored in water as a warning of danger or as a marker for a channel. Also, to keep afloat or aloft. (references) | ||
| Energy | A float moored or anchored in water. (references) | ||
| Food & Agriculture | 1: To furnish or mark with sea-marks. Source: European Union. (references) | 2: A floating object employed as an aid to mariners to mark the navigable limits of channels, their fairways, sunken dangers, isolated rocks, mined or torpedo grounds, telegraph cables and the like. Source: European Union. (references) | 3: Large float used to mark or support part of the gear. Source: European Union. (references) |
| Law | BUOY. A piece of wood, or an empty barrel, floating on the water, to show the place where it is shallow, to indicate the danger there is to navigation. The act of Congress, approved the 28th September, 1850, enacts, " that all buoys along the coast, in bays, harbors, sounds, or channels, shall be colored and numbered, so that passing up the coast or sound, or entering the bay, harbor or channel, red buoys with even numbers, shall be passed on the starboard hand, black buoys, with uneven numbers, on the port hand, and buoys with red and black stripes on either hand. Buoys in channel ways to be colored with alternate white and black perpendicular stripes." (references) | ||
| Sports & Leisure | A device used to assist a swimmer in remaining afloat. Source: European Union. (references) | ||
| Transportation | A floating object of defined size, shape and color, usually made of metal or plastic, which is anchored at a given position and serves as an aid to navigation. It may carry a light or an acoustical or other device. Source: European Union. (references) | ||
| Wikipedic | A buoy is a floating device that can have various purposes, which determine whether the buoy is anchored (stationary) or allowed to drift: The word is derived from the Dutch 'boei'. In North American English it is pronounced as Boo-ee, while in Commonwealth English, the pronunciation is virtually identical to boy. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | Top | ||
Common Expressions: buoy
| Expressions | Definition | ||
| Acoustic buoy | A buoy that can be heard (at night). Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Anchor buoy | A buoy attached to, or marking the position of, an anchor. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. | ||
| Bell buoy | 1: A large buoy on which a bell is mounted, to be rung by the motion of the waves. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. | ||
| 2: A buoy with a bell on it. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | |||
| Breeches buoy | 1: In the life-saving service, a pair of canvas breeches depending from an annular or beltlike life buoy which is usually of cork. This contrivance, inclosing the person to be rescued, is hung by short ropes from a block which runs upon the hawser stretched from the ship to the shore, and is drawn to land by hauling lines. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. | ||
| 2: A life buoy in the form of a ring with short breeches for support; used to transfer people from a ship. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | |||
| Buoy up | 1: Keep afloat. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| 2: Become more cheerful. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | |||
| 3: Make more cheerful. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | |||
| Cable buoy | An empty cask employed to buoy up the cable in rocky anchorage. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. | ||
| Can buoy | 1: See under Buoy, n. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. | ||
| 2: A hollow buoy made of sheet or boiler iron, usually conical or pear-shaped. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. | |||
| 3: A buoy with a round bottom and conical top. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | |||
| Conical buoy | A buoy resembling a cone. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Decompression buoy | A decompression buoy, deco buoy or delayed SMB is an item of diving equipment used by SCUBA divers to mark their position whilst underwater doing decompression stops. They are similar to Surface Marker Buoys but deco buoys are launched whilst the diver is submerged. Alternative solutions to marking one's position while doing decompression stops are diving shots and decompression trapezes. (references) | ||
| Gong buoy | A buoy with a bell on it. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Life buoy | 1: See Buoy . Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. | ||
| 2: A life preserver in the form of a ring of buoyant material. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | |||
| Nun buoy | A buoy resembling a cone. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Safety buoy | A buoy to enable a person to float in water; a safety belt. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. | ||
| Spar buoy | 1: (Naut.), a buoy anchored by one end so that the other end rises above the surface of the water. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. | ||
| 2: A buoy resembling a vertical log. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | |||
| Surface Marker Buoy | A Surface Marker Buoy, SMB or simply a blob is an inflatable buoy used by SCUBA divers, with a line, to mark the diver's position to their surface, safety boat whilst the diver is underwater. (references) | ||
| Trinity Buoy Wharf | Trinity Buoy Wharf is the site of London's only lighthouse, on the banks of the River Thames and near Leamouth. The lighthouse does not function now, and is the home of various art projects such as Longplayer. (references) | ||
| USCG coastal buoy tender | The United States Coast Guard is commissioning a new class of coastal buoy tenders. (references) | ||
| USCG seagoing buoy tender | The seagoing buoy tender is a class of small U.S. Coast Guard cutters that were designed to serve multiple missions in the Great Lakes and the oceans of the world. Their primary mission is to tend to all Coast Guard aids to navigation (ATON), such as buoys and lighthouses. In addition, they also perform search and rescue missions, light ice-breaking, and law enforcement. These ships are designated with the hull classification symbol WLB. (references) | ||
| Whistle buoy | A buoy that makes a whistling noise. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Whistling buoy | 1: (Naut.) See under Buoy . Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. | ||
| 2: A buoy that makes a whistling noise. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | |||
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | Top | ||
Specialty Expressions: buoy
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| Buoy line | Energy | A line formed by two or more buoys marking a contour edge of a channel. (references) | |
| Buoy range markers | Energy | Painted stakes set up on shore so placed as to form a range through the exact location of a buoy. Used only on the Tennessee River to mark buoys in dredged cuts. (references) | |
| Datum dan buoy | Military | In naval mine warfare, a dan buoy intended as a geographic reference or check, which needs to be more visible and more securely moored than a normal dan buoy. (references) | |
| Directional Waverider Buoy | Hydraulics | A floating device used to measure ocean wave height, period and direction. It is a registered trademark of the Dutch company Datawell. (references) | |
| Flanking buoy | Energy | Buoy tied to the corner of a tow so pilot can tell when tow has been checked. (references) | |
| Foamed buoy | Energy | A buoy whose interior is filled with styrofoam for the purpose of improving flotation when in a damaged condition. (references) | |
| Gong buoy | Transportation | A buoy fitted with a group of saucer-shaped bells of different tones as an audible signal. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| High water buoy | Energy | Small unlighted buoy permanently secured to the end of dikes, lock walls, bear traps, and other river front structures such as mooring cells for the purpose of marking them during high water when they are submerged. (references) | |
| Short scope buoy | Military | (DOD, NATO) A buoy used as a navigational reference which remains nearly vertical over its sinker. (references) | |
| Winter buoy | Transportation | An unlighted buoy which is maintained in certain areas during winter months when other navigational aids are temporarily removed or extinguished. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | Top | ||
Topics by Level of Interest: buoy | ||||
| Topics sorted by level of Interest | Level (1=low, 600=high) | Topics sorted Alphabetically | Level (1=low, 600=high) | |
| USCG Seagoing Buoy Tender | 17 | AN/SLQ-49 Chaff Buoy Decoy System | 5 | |
| Buoy | 15 | Breeches buoy | 3 | |
| Surface Marker Buoy | 11 | Buoy | 15 | |
| Weather buoy | 10 | Buoy tender | 4 | |
| USCG Coastal Buoy Tender | 8 | Lobster buoy hitch | 4 | |
| National Data Buoy Center | 7 | National Data Buoy Center | 7 | |
| Trinity Buoy Wharf | 6 | Pull buoy | 3 | |
| AN/SLQ-49 Chaff Buoy Decoy System | 5 | Rescue buoy | 2 | |
| Buoy tender | 4 | Surface Marker Buoy | 11 | |
| Lobster buoy hitch | 4 | Trinity Buoy Wharf | 6 | |
| USCG Inland Buoy Tender | 3 | USCG Coastal Buoy Tender | 8 | |
| Pull buoy | 3 | USCG Inland Buoy Tender | 3 | |
| Breeches buoy | 3 | USCG Seagoing Buoy Tender | 17 | |
| Rescue buoy | 2 | Weather buoy | 10 | |
Source: the editor, created by/for EVE to gauge likely levels of human interest in linguistically triggered topics (compiled across various sources, such as Wikipedia and specialty expression glosses). | ||||
