(n.) A float; esp. a floating object moored to the bottom, to mark a channel or to point out the position of something beneath the water, as an anchor, shoal, rock, etc.
(v. t.) To keep from sinking in a fluid, as in water or air; to keep afloat; -- with up.
(v. t.) To support or sustain; to preserve from sinking into ruin or despondency.
(v. t.) To fix buoys to; to mark by a buoy or by buoys; as, to buoy an anchor; to buoy or buoy off a channel.
(v. i.) To float; to rise like a buoy.
Example Sentences:
(1) The metacercaria-detecting buoy method was applied to rice fields fertilized with cattle manure for 7 days in mid-summer, as well as to fields located closely to cattle pens, but not fertilized.
(2) Spending, though, has continued to rise in line with Labour's plans, buoyed by growing expenditure on unemployment benefit as the jobless total has risen by over 600,000 in the past year.
(3) Helen Dickinson, chief executive of the BRC, described the Christmas period as a disappointing close to the year for retailers, who expected the “underlying momentum of an improving consumer environment buoyed by rising real incomes, low inflation and low unemployment” to feed into higher sales growth.
(4) Supporters of a change in the law were buoyed last month when voters in the US state of Washington decided to legalise assisted suicide, joining their state to a list of safe havens for the practice which includes the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Switzerland and the US state of Oregon.
(5) Expectations for next month’s climate summit have been buoyed by fruitful talks held last year in Beijing, where China pledged to bring its emissions to a peak “around 2030”, and the US said it would cut its emissions by 26-28% of their 2005 level by 2025 .
(6) Cory Bernardi and George Christensen to raise funds for anti-Islam group Read more Returning from New York buoyed by the election of Donald Trump, Bernardi said in late November he realised “I have to be a part of that change, perhaps even in some way a catalyst for it”.
(7) He was buoyed by the experience of lifting Great Britain back to the top of world team tennis, but the effort clearly took its toll.
(8) Analysts have warned in recent weeks that al-Qaida in Iraq is regaining strength, its recruiting in the mainly Sunni northern and western provinces buoyed by a political crisis that has triggered widespread protests against the Shia-dominated government of Nouri-al Maliki by Sunni protesters.
(9) The richest Briton in the list remains the Duke of Westminster, who has dropped one place to fourth but seen his worth rise by £250m to £7bn – partly because foreign billionaires have buoyed the London property market, which accounts for a sizeable chunk of his empire.
(10) Senior party figures were buoyed by new YouGov polling that showed support for Labour had gone up.
(11) But after being mauled in the media for sartorial crimes – including a bright pink blazer and white shirt adorned with heart motifs – Hatoyama will be buoyed by the news that a Shanghai-based shirt-maker is selling copies of his most infamous garment as a tribute to his "individuality" .
(12) The self-declared sovereign Yidindji government has been buoyed by a “diplomatic exchange” with a senior Australian government minister who offered the first commonwealth recognition of its leaders at an event on their traditional country in north Queensland .
(13) Private developers have been buoyed by the first stage of the government's Help to Buy scheme, which offers buyers a 20% interest-free loan to enable them to purchase a new-build property with just a 5% deposit.
(14) The legs were floated with a small buoy as previously described (Toussaint et al., J. appl.
(15) Despite its own underwhelming performance at the local elections, Labour was buoyed as a new poll by Tory peer Lord Ashcroft showed that Ed Miliband's party was 12% ahead of the Tories in 26 key marginal battlegrounds.
(16) The wave was measured at a special buoy off the Donegal coast on Tuesday as a force ten storm raged.
(17) Buoyed by the oil and gas companies and fossil-fuel-funder mega-donors that increasingly bankroll their campaigns, most prominent Republican politicians have either denied that climate change exists or refused to stake out a clear position, citing their personal lack of scientific knowledge.
(18) It is understood the boats have been fitted out with fuel, food and water, navigation equipment, life jackets and life buoys for return journeys.
(19) While the City was buoyed by the profits rise, customer groups were concerned.
(20) The market has been buoyed in recent months by increased mortgage lending, the apparent result of the government's Funding for Lending scheme which launched in August 2012.
Warn
Definition:
(v. t.) To refuse.
(v. t.) To make ware or aware; to give previous information to; to give notice to; to notify; to admonish; hence, to notify or summon by authority; as, to warn a town meeting; to warn a tenant to quit a house.
(v. t.) To give notice to, of approaching or probable danger or evil; to caution against anything that may prove injurious.
(v. t.) To ward off.
Example Sentences:
(1) It involves creativity, understanding of art form and the ability to improvise in the highly complex environment of a care setting.” David Cameron has boosted dementia awareness but more needs to be done Read more She warns: “To effect a cultural change in dementia care requires a change of thinking … this approach is complex and intricate, and can change cultural attitudes by regarding the arts as central to everyday life of the care home.” Another participant, Mary*, a former teacher who had been bedridden for a year, read plays with the reminiscence arts practitioner.
(2) Businesses fleeing Brexit will head to New York not EU, warns LSE chief Read more Amid attempts by Frankfurt, Paris and Dublin to catch possible fallout from London, Sir Jon Cunliffe said it was highly unlikely that any EU centre could replicate the services offered by the UK’s financial services industry.
(3) What reforms there were could also be reversed, she warned.
(4) One man has died in storms sweeping across the UK that have brought 100-mile-an-hour winds and led to more than 50 flood warnings being issued with widespread disruption on the road and rail networks in much of southern England and Scotland.
(5) A Swedish news agency said it had received an email warning before the blasts in which a threat was made against Sweden's population, linked to the country's military presence in Afghanistan and the five-year-old case of caricatures of the prophet Muhammad by Swedish artist Lars Vilks.
(6) The key warning from the Fed chair A summary of Bernanke's hearing Earlier... MPs in London quizzed the Bank of England on Libor.
(7) In London, diesel emissions are now so bad that on several days earlier this summer, children, older people and vulnerable adults were warned not to venture outside .
(8) Concurrent with this change in the level of enforcement of RBT was an extensive publicity campaign, which warned drinking drivers of their increased risk of detection by RBT units.
(9) The proportions of one of the warning stimuli, with respect to the total number of trials, were 0.10, 0.30 and 0.50.
(10) Additionally, the "early warning" capability of SaO2 monitoring was analyzed by recording the severity and outcome of hypoxemic events during treatment.
(11) Last November he bluntly warned EU chiefs he could, if he wished, “flood Europe” with refugees.
(12) They include two leading Republican hopefuls for the presidential race in 2016, Rand Paul and Marco Rubio; three of them enjoy A+ rankings from the NRA and a further eight are listed A. Rand Paul of Kentucky The junior senator's penchant for filibusters became famous during his nearly 13-hour speech against the use unmanned drones, and he is one of three senators who sent an initial missive to Reid , warning him of another verbose round.
(13) The speaker issued his warning after William Hague told MPs that the government would consult parliament but declined to explain the nature of the vote.
(14) Prof Bryan Williams, chair of the working party that developed the chart, said: "Many changes in healthcare are incremental but this new National Early Warning Score (News) has the potential to transform patient safety in our hospitals and improve patient outcomes.
(15) In January a similar group of MPs warned of a threat to Cameron in 2014 unless he improves the Tories' standing.
(16) Families believed that physicians would not listen (13% of sample), would not talk openly (32%), attempted to mislead them (48%), or did not warn about long-term neurodevelopmental problems (70%).
(17) He has also been a vocal opponent of gay marriage, appearing on the Today programme in the run-up to the same-sex marriage bill to warn that it would "cause confusion" – and asking in a Spectator column, after it was passed, "if the law will eventually be changed to allow one to marry one's dog".
(18) According to the report filed by the New York state department of financial services (NYSDFS), when warned by a US colleague about dealings with Iran, a Standard Chartered executive caustically replied: "You f---ing Americans.
(19) The following examinations could be proposed: in high risk cases determined before pregnancy, a chorionic villus sampling should be done between the 9th and 11th weeks of gestation; in low risk cases such as advanced maternal age, a first trimester chorionic villus sampling or a second trimester amniocentesis could be chosen; in the case of Down's syndrome, warning signs, for example ultrasonographic or biological parameters, a second trimester placental biopsy to relieve the parents' anxiety; in high risk cases such as ultrasonographic malformations, late placental biopsy or cordocentesis.
(20) The conclusion is to warn the orthopaedic surgeons to look carefully what model is behind the pretty coloured results.