buoyとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Received 発音, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈbɔɪ/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈbu.i/, /ˈbɔɪ/
• 韻: -uːi, -ɔɪ
• (廃れた用法) IPA^(key): /ˈbwɔɪ/

名詞

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buoy (複数形 buoys)

1. (nautical) A float moored in water to mark a location, warn of danger, indicate a navigational channel or for other purposes
   • 2008, BioWare, Mass Effect, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Communications: Administration Codex entry:

     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. A life-buoy; a life preserver.

派生語

動詞

buoy (三人称単数 現在形 buoys, 現在分詞 buoying, 過去形および過去分詞形 buoyed)

1. (transitive) To keep afloat or aloft; used with up.
2. (transitive) To support or maintain at a high level.
   • 2017 May 18, Rapkin, Mickey, “The Oral History of Celine Dion’s ‘My Heart Will Go On’: Controversies, Doubts & ‘Belly Pains’ In the Studio”, in Billboard‎^[1]:

     “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.

3. (transitive) To mark with a buoy.

   to buoy an anchor; to buoy or buoy off a channel

   • 1839, Robert FitzRoy; Phillip Parker King; Charles Darwin, chapter 13, in Narrative of the Surveying Voyages of His Majesty’s Ships Adventure and Beagle, between the Years 1826 and 1836, […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/011823366 303]:

     Not one rock near the surface was discovered which was not buoyed by this floating weed.

4. To maintain or enhance enthusiasm or confidence; to lift the spirits of.
   • 6 September 2013, Daniel Taylor, “Danny Welbeck leads England's rout of Moldova but hit by Ukraine ban”, in The Guardian‎^[2]:

     It ended up being a bittersweet night for England, full of goals to send the crowd home happy, buoyed by the news that Montenegro and Poland had drawn elsewhere in Group H but also with a measure of regret about what happened to Danny Welbeck and what it means for Roy Hodgson's team going into a much more difficult assignment against Ukraine.

   • 2018, James Lambert, “A multitude of ‘lishes’: The nomenclature of hybridity”, in English World-Wide‎^[3], page 18:

     Considering the results of the study, today John may be buoyed at the clear trend of increasing numbers of new “lishes” for each successive decade since the 1950s, and the fact that nothing in the data suggests this trend is likely to falter.

   Buoyed by the huge success, they announced two other projects.

派生語

• buoy up

派生語

• buoy up
• can buoy
• conical buoy
• bell buoy
• ring buoy
• life buoy
• breeches buoy

Further reading

• “buoy”, in Collins English Dictionary.
• “buoy, n,v.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• buoy at OneLook Dictionary Search
• “buoy”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “buoy” in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2023.

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