0 a floating object on the top of the sea, used for directing ships and warning them of possible danger
2 to make someone feel happier or more confident about a situation:
3 to support something and make it more successful:
4 an object that floats on the water to show ships where it is safe to go
6 to support a business, economy, or financial market and make it more successful:
He offered a bold theory, buoyed by its consistency with the data of embryonic development.
The morphology is relatively static ; progress, buoyed up by such supportive interchanges, is predictable and linear.
However, they can still be useful for organizations in the throes of change, marker buoys in rough seas, navigational aids rather than the one and only route to take.
The skewness of these points is derived from the returned pulse shape, while the 4 values are based on the ground truth data from surface buoys.
In terms of a classical wave picture of light the electrons would all be agitated by the electromagnetic radiation, bobbing up and down like anchored buoys in an ocean swell.
If there is no loss of speed as the buoy enters the water, find how far it sinks below the surface.
A large bell was anchored to a buoy, so the tide played a part in activating the sound as well as the wind.
Increasingly, the state's security forces were called on to buoy up the government's sagging authority.
