Meaning of BUOY in English

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Meaning of BUOY in English

• 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.
• To keep from sinking in a fluid, as in water or air; to keep afloat; -- with up.
• To support or sustain; to preserve from sinking into ruin or despondency.
• To fix buoys to; to mark by a buoy or by buoys; as, to buoy an anchor; to buoy or buoy off a channel.
• To float; to rise like a buoy.

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