单词 | buoyancy |
释义 | buoyancy (once / 3753 pages) 1n 2n Buoyancy is a quality that makes things float in water. It's also a type of happiness: if you're full of buoyancy, your mood is light and happy. This is a word with two main meanings that fit together well: Both kinds of buoyancy have to do with floating and staying up. The physical kind refers to objects that float instead of sinking in water, like a life raft or a buoy. The other kind of buoyancy is a happy mood, a feeling that nothing can get you down. So whenever you run into the word buoyancy, just think "staying afloat." WORD FAMILYbuoyancy: buoyancies+/buoy: buoyant, buoyed, buoying, buoys/buoyant: buoyancy, buoyantly, chirpily, non-buoyant USAGE EXAMPLESOthers see first-time buyers as key to the buoyancy of the housing market. BBC(Jan 02, 2017) But there is a new buoyancy about town. New York Times(Jan 01, 2017) But she also starred in the 1964 musical “The Unsinkable Molly Brown,” a title whose adjective best explains the full Debbie Reynolds experience: maximum buoyancy. New York Times(Dec 29, 2016) 1 1n the tendency to float in water or other liquid Hyper inclination, tendency a characteristic likelihood of or natural disposition toward a certain condition or character or effect 2n the property of something weightless and insubstantial 2Syn|Hyper airiness lightness, weightlessness the property of being comparatively small in weight 1n cheerfulness that bubbles to the surface Syn|Hyper perkiness blitheness, cheerfulness a feeling of spontaneous good spirits 2n irrepressible liveliness and good spirit I admired his buoyancy and persistent good humor Syn|Hyper irrepressibility life, liveliness, spirit, sprightliness animation and energy in action or expression |
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