[
UK
/bˈɔɪ/
]
[ US /ˈbui/ ]
[ US /ˈbui/ ]
NOUN
- bright-colored; a float attached by rope to the seabed to mark channels in a harbor or underwater hazards
VERB
- float on the surface of water
-
keep afloat
The life vest buoyed him up - mark with a buoy
How To Use buoy In A Sentence
- Diving underweighted can lead to buoyant ascents at the end of the dive, so I am not advocating that everyone knocks a couple of kilos off the next time they dive.
- It's soundproof and completely dark, and I go in there for a couple of hours at a time, You don't realize how much stress you carry around in your muscles and tissue until you lie in this completely buoyant environment.
- Stocks spent most of the day in positive territory, buoyed in part by the University of Michigan's report showing consumer confidence rose in March to 95.8 from 94.4 in February.
- A critical specialization in the locomotor spectrum for aquatic animals is buoyancy.
- The buoyant mood of his audience was certainly out of kilter with the deep undercurrent of frustration evident elsewhere in Bournemouth this week.
- As the tragedy unfolded, the eyewitness tried to find a lifebuoy.
- This decline was due partly to the generally buoyant economy that saw fewer people filing claims. A Conceptual View of Human Resource Management: Strategic Objectives, Environments, Functions
- Defying all laws of buoyancy, he continued walking into the water until the surface was a good five feet above him.
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- The shell contains a gas which makes it semi-buoyant, permitting the nautilus to change depth and to swim.