buoy 音标拼音: [b'ui]
n . 浮标,浮筒,救生圈
vt . 使浮起,支撑,鼓励
浮标,浮筒,救生圈使浮起,支撑,鼓励
buoy n 1 :
bright -
colored ;
a float attached by rope to the seabed to mark channels in a harbor or underwater hazards v 1 :
float on the surface of water 2 :
keep afloat ; "
The life vest buoyed him up " [
synonym : {
buoy },
{
buoy up }]
3 :
mark with a buoy Buoy \
Buoy \ (
bwoi or boi ;
277 ),
n . [
D .
boei buoy ,
fetter ,
fr .
OF .
boie ,
buie ,
chain ,
fetter ,
F .
bou ['
e ]
e a buoy ,
from L .
boia . "
Boiae genus vinculorum tam ferreae quam ligneae ."
--
Festus .
So called because chained to its place .] (
Naut .)
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 .
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1913 Webster ]
{
Anchor buoy },
a buoy attached to ,
or marking the position of ,
an anchor .
{
Bell buoy },
a large buoy on which a bell is mounted ,
to be rung by the motion of the waves .
{
Breeches buoy }.
See under {
Breeches }.
{
Cable buoy },
an empty cask employed to buoy up the cable in rocky anchorage .
{
Can buoy },
a hollow buoy made of sheet or boiler iron ,
usually conical or pear -
shaped .
{
Life buoy },
a float intended to support persons who have fallen into the water ,
until a boat can be dispatched to save them .
{
Nut buoy }
or {
Nun buoy },
a buoy large in the middle ,
and tapering nearly to a point at each end .
{
To stream the buoy },
to let the anchor buoy fall by the ship '
s side into the water ,
before letting go the anchor .
{
Whistling buoy },
a buoy fitted with a whistle that is blown by the action of the waves .
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1913 Webster ]
Buoy \
Buoy \,
v .
t . [
imp . &
p .
p . {
Buoyed };
p .
pr . &
vb .
n .
{
Buoying }.]
1 .
To keep from sinking in a fluid ,
as in water or air ;
to keep afloat ; --
with up .
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2 .
To support or sustain ;
to preserve from sinking into ruin or despondency .
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Those old prejudices ,
which buoy up the ponderous mass of his nobility ,
wealth ,
and title . --
Burke .
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3 .
To fix buoys to ;
to mark by a buoy or by buoys ;
as ,
to buoy an anchor ;
to buoy or buoy off a channel .
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Not one rock near the surface was discovered which was not buoyed by this floating weed . --
Darwin .
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Buoy \
Buoy \,
v .
i .
To float ;
to rise like a buoy . "
Rising merit will buoy up at last ." --
Pope .
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1913 Webster ]
121 Moby Thesaurus words for "
buoy ":
Carling float ,
Mae West ,
Roman candle ,
aid to navigation ,
alarm ,
amber light ,
balefire ,
balsa ,
balsa raft ,
beacon ,
beacon fire ,
bear up ,
bell ,
bell buoy ,
blinker ,
blue peter ,
bob ,
boom ,
breeches buoy ,
buoy up ,
caution light ,
cork ,
cork jacket ,
ejection capsule ,
ejection seat ,
ejector seat ,
elevate ,
flare ,
float ,
float high ,
fog bell ,
fog signal ,
fog whistle ,
foghorn ,
glance ,
go light ,
gong buoy ,
green light ,
hearten ,
heliograph ,
high sign ,
hold up ,
international alphabet flag ,
international numeral pennant ,
keep up ,
kick ,
leer ,
life belt ,
life buoy ,
life jacket ,
life net ,
life preserver ,
life raft ,
life ring ,
life vest ,
lifeboat ,
lifeline ,
lift ,
lollipop ,
marker beacon ,
nod ,
nudge ,
parachute ,
parachute flare ,
pilot flag ,
poke ,
police whistle ,
pontoon ,
quarantine flag ,
radio beacon ,
raft ,
raise ,
red flag ,
red light ,
ride high ,
rocket ,
rubber dinghy ,
safety belt ,
sailing aid ,
semaphore ,
semaphore flag ,
semaphore telegraph ,
sign ,
signal ,
signal beacon ,
signal bell ,
signal fire ,
signal flag ,
signal gong ,
signal gun ,
signal lamp ,
signal light ,
signal mast ,
signal post ,
signal rocket ,
signal shot ,
signal siren ,
signal tower ,
siren ,
spar buoy ,
stop light ,
support ,
surfboard ,
sustain ,
the nod ,
the wink ,
touch ,
traffic light ,
traffic signal ,
upbear ,
uphold ,
uplift ,
upraise ,
waft ,
watch fire ,
water wings ,
white flag ,
wigwag ,
wigwag flag ,
wink ,
yellow flag 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 ."
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