buoy

buoy has 9 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 4.

Definitions

• 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 support or sustain; to preserve from sinking into ruin or despondency.
• 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.
• n.. bright-colored; a float attached by rope to the seabed to mark channels in a harbor or underwater hazards
• v.. mark with a buoy
• v.. keep afloat; "The life vest buoyed him up"
• v.. float on the surface of water