BUOY


Meaning of BUOY in English

I. noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

life buoy

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

But, like Conner, he brushed the buoy and was penalised.

Course racing A discipline of competitive windsurfing which involves racing around a course marked by a series of buoys.

Satellite and buoy data can now detect a developing El Nino eight or nine months before that.

She dived down and swam out strongly against the current, towards an orange buoy at the outer edge of the bay.

The buoy is somehow a fitting monument to the crew members who lost their lives here.

To the accompaniment of foghorns and buoy bells, beside a crackling fire, l slowly eat my dinner.

We put a buoy on her; a tuna buoy, a twelve-footer.

II. verb

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADVERB

up

Mr Ashdown, buoyed up by the latest opinion poll results, has been touring both constituencies.

I had never seen him so cocky, so buoyed up and satisfied with himself.

The needy themselves, buoyed up by economic boom, have been happy to go along.

They, too, were low-density matter trying to buoy up through a denser material.

A nuee consists of an incandescent mass of solid fragments, buoyed up by the rush of expanding, heated gases.

It slowly rose high in the afternoon sky, buoyed up by a narrow whirling column feeding it from beneath.

In a gravitational field this causes the denser air to sink and buoy up the less dense gas.

■ NOUN

price

Those very same declines in interest rates buoyed bond prices throughout the year.

Few of the economists forecast a recession, which would buoy bond prices significantly.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

Democrats were buoyed by election results.

Easier credit would help buoy economic growth.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Dole, campaigning in Columbus, Ohio, Friday, was buoyed by the California result.

He was buoyed by the knowledge that at last they had a clear suspect.

In a gravitational field this causes the denser air to sink and buoy up the less dense gas.

Over the last few months the republic had been buoyed by waves of euphoria.

Some investors assert that the lack of a spending accord, for now, will buoy bonds by choking off economic growth.

The needy themselves, buoyed up by economic boom, have been happy to go along.

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