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bouée
, balise flottante
, baliser
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Definition & Synonyms
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• Buoy
- (v. t.) To support or sustain; to preserve from sinking into ruin or despondency.
- (n.) 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.
- (v. t.) To keep from sinking in a fluid, as in water or air; to keep afloat; -- with up.
- (v. t.) To fix buoys to; to mark by a buoy or by buoys; as, to buoy an anchor; to buoy or buoy off a channel.
- (v. i.) To float; to rise like a buoy.
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• Buoyage
- (n.) Buoys, taken collectively; a series of buoys, as for the guidance of vessels into or out of port; the providing of buoys.
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• Buoyed
- (imp. & p. p.) of Buoy
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