1. buoy - Noun
2. buoy - Verb
A float; esp. a floating object moored to the bottom, to mark a channel or to point out the position of something beneath the water, as an anchor, shoal, rock, etc.
To keep from sinking in a fluid, as in water or air; to keep afloat; -- with up.
To support or sustain; to preserve from sinking into ruin or despondency.
To fix buoys to; to mark by a buoy or by buoys; as, to buoy an anchor; to buoy or buoy off a channel.
To float; to rise like a buoy.
Source: Webster's dictionaryThe life vest buoyed him up Source: Internet
A cable repair ship will be sent to the location to drop a marker buoy near the break. Source: Internet
After the skier has run their maximum speed pass, the rope is shortened at specific increments to make it more difficult to reach the buoy width. Source: Internet
An oceanographic buoy array was established in the Pacific to allow prediction of El Niño events. Source: Internet
A However, a freak storm caused the temperature to reach convert for a time at a World Meteorological Organization buoy, located at 87.45°N, on December 30, 2015. Source: Internet
Competitors line up at the start, race to a stake, moored boat, or buoy some distance away, and return. Source: Internet