buoy
A float moored in water to mark a location, warn of danger, indicate a navigational…A float moored in water to mark a location, warn of danger, indicate a navigational channel or for other purposes
» Let's swim out to the buoy.
Schwimmen wir raus bis zur Boje! — Yorwba
Гайда пливти до буйка! — Ahha
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3 sensesA float moored in water to mark a location, warn of danger, indicate a navigational channel or for other purposes
Boje, Tonne
буйbuj, буёкbujók, ба́кенbáken
буйbuj
A float moored in water to mark a location, warn of danger, indicate a navigational channel or for other purposes
A lifebuoy; a life preserver.
A sign where the non-dominant hand is held in a stationary configuration as a landmark for meaning associations with the dominant hand.
list buoy
- a float attached by rope to the seabed to mark channels in a harbor or underwater hazards; typically brightly-coloured
Examples
5 sentencesLet's swim out to the buoy.
Гайда пливти до буйка! — Ahha
deSchwimmen wir raus bis zur Boje! — Yorwba
The yacht sailed around a buoy.
deDie Jacht umsegelte eine Boje. — Yorwba
The yacht sailed round a buoy.
deDie Jacht segelte um eine Boje herum. — Pfirsichbaeumchen
Thomas crashed into a buoy and damaged his boat.
ruТомас врезался в буй и повредил лодку. — Ooneykcall
Florence was for me a life buoy in the sea of life.
ruФлоренция была для меня спасательным кругом в море жизни. — odexed
deFlorenz war mir eine Rettungsboje im Meer des Lebens. — Yorwba
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Origin
From Middle English boy, boye, from Middle Dutch boeye (“float, buoy”), from Old French boFrom Middle English boy, boye, from Middle Dutch boeye (“float, buoy”), from Old French boue (“piece of wood or cork that floats above an anchor to indicate where it is anchored”) (modern French bouée), ultimately from Frankish *baukn (“beacon”), from Proto-Germanic *baukną. Doublet of beacon.
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