I. noun
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life buoy
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But, like Conner, he brushed the buoy and was penalised.
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Course racing A discipline of competitive windsurfing which involves racing around a course marked by a series of buoys.
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Satellite and buoy data can now detect a developing El Nino eight or nine months before that.
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She dived down and swam out strongly against the current, towards an orange buoy at the outer edge of the bay.
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The buoy is somehow a fitting monument to the crew members who lost their lives here.
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To the accompaniment of foghorns and buoy bells, beside a crackling fire, l slowly eat my dinner.
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We put a buoy on her; a tuna buoy, a twelve-footer.
II. verb
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■ ADVERB
up
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Mr Ashdown, buoyed up by the latest opinion poll results, has been touring both constituencies.
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I had never seen him so cocky, so buoyed up and satisfied with himself.
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The needy themselves, buoyed up by economic boom, have been happy to go along.
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They, too, were low-density matter trying to buoy up through a denser material.
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A nuee consists of an incandescent mass of solid fragments, buoyed up by the rush of expanding, heated gases.
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It slowly rose high in the afternoon sky, buoyed up by a narrow whirling column feeding it from beneath.
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In a gravitational field this causes the denser air to sink and buoy up the less dense gas.
■ NOUN
price
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Those very same declines in interest rates buoyed bond prices throughout the year.
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Few of the economists forecast a recession, which would buoy bond prices significantly.
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Democrats were buoyed by election results.
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Easier credit would help buoy economic growth.
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Dole, campaigning in Columbus, Ohio, Friday, was buoyed by the California result.
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He was buoyed by the knowledge that at last they had a clear suspect.
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In a gravitational field this causes the denser air to sink and buoy up the less dense gas.
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Over the last few months the republic had been buoyed by waves of euphoria.
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Some investors assert that the lack of a spending accord, for now, will buoy bonds by choking off economic growth.
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The needy themselves, buoyed up by economic boom, have been happy to go along.