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"Buoy" Definition

noun

A float moored in water to mark a location, warn of danger, or indicate a navigational channel.
A life buoy.
A floating object moored to the bottom to mark a channel or something (as a shoal) lying under the water.
An anchored float serving as a navigation mark, to show reefs or other hazards, or for mooring.

verb-transitive

To hearten or inspire; uplift: "buoyed up by the team spirit and the pride of the older generation back at home” ( Judith Martin).
To keep afloat or aloft: a glider buoyed by air currents.
To maintain at a high level; support: "the persistent ... takeover speculation, which has buoyed up the shares of banks” ( Financial Times).
To mark with or as if with a buoy.

verb

To mark by or as if by a buoy.
To keep afloat.
To raise the spirits of .
Keep (someone or something) afloat.
Mark with an anchored float.

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