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单词

buoy

释义

buoy¹/boy/ noun

a distinctively shaped and marked float moored to the bottom of a body of water, as a navigational aid to mark a channel or hazard, or for mooring a ship

= lifebuoy

[Middle English boye from assumed French boie, of Germanic origin]

buoy²verb trans

(+ up) to keep (something) afloat

(+ up) to support or sustain (something or somebody)

(+ up) to raise the spirits of (somebody)

He is buoyed up by hope

to mark (something) by a buoy

[(senses 1 and 2) prob from Spanish boyar to float, from boya buoy, from assumed early French boie buoy¹; (sense 3) from buoy¹]

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buoy1/boy/ noun

buoy2verb trans

buoy¹/boy/ noun

buoy²verb trans