buoy
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Is buoy a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (nautical) A float moored in water to mark a location, warn of danger, indicate a navigational channel or for other purposesExamples: "While comm buoys allow rapid transmission, there is a finite amount of bandwidth available. Given that trillions of people may be trying to pass a message through a given buoy at any one time, access to the network is parceled out on priority tiers."
2. (nautical) A float moored in water to mark a location, warn of danger, indicate a navigational channel or for other purposes
3. (linguistics, sign language) A sign where the non-dominant hand is held in a stationary configuration as a landmark for meaning associations with the dominant hand.Examples: "list buoy"
verb (English)
1. (transitive) To keep afloat or aloft; used with up.transitive
2. (transitive) To support or maintain at a high level.Examples: "“My Heart Will Go On” debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 on Feb. 28, 1998, buoying the Titanic soundtrack’s 16-week run atop the Billboard 200."transitive
3. (transitive) To mark with a buoy.Examples: "to buoy an anchor; to buoy or buoy off a channel"; "Not one rock near the surface was discovered which was not buoyed by this floating weed."transitive
Definition source: Wiktionary