0 a floating anchored mark, acting as a guide, warning or mooring point for boats -- boya
The buoys mark out an 8 knot speed restriction area.
The security precautions have recently been strengthened and the lighted buoys, fog signals and notices give adequate warning.
Frequently, in our crowded harbours, ships cannot go alongside, but must go to mooring buoys.
The fishing industry still has the growing problem of drifting oil buoys and suspended wellheads.
They go home buoyed up by the hope that they are going to get a good start.
There is no reason at all why the buoys should not come to the surface.
Thus, a complex parallelism between biological science and literary art helped to buoy up the emerging literary critical edifice at the end of the nineteenth century.
The majority of three-, four-, five- and six-year-old children in their study selected an illustration that clearly demonstrated their knowledge of a primary meaning of a homonym (such as buoy).
Increasingly, the state's security forces were called on to buoy up the government's sagging authority.
