The yacht sailed around a buoy.
Source: tatoeba (29895)
Buoy
/ˈbɔɪ/
Synonyms for "buoy" (148 found)
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Closest matches (30)
Strong matches (44)
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Noun(9 words)
Related words (74)
liftlollipopmae westmarker beaconnodnudgeparachuteparachute flarepilot flagpokepolice whistlepontoonquarantine flagradio beaconraftraisered flagred lightride highrocket
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roman candlerubber dinghysafety beltsailing aidsemaphoresemaphore flagsemaphore telegraphsignsignalsignal beaconsignal bellsignal firesignal flagsignal gongsignal gunsignal lampsignal lightsignal mastsignal postsignal rocketsignal shotsignal sirensignal towersirenspar buoystop lightsupportsurfboardsustainthe nodthe winktouchtraffic lighttraffic signalupbearupholdupliftupraisewaftwatch firewater wingswhite flagwigwagwigwag flagwinkyellow flag
Related word relations
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More general
18 entriesShowing 16 of 18 words.
More specific
6 entriesbell buoycan buoyeconomic buoyingmarket buoyingmorale buoyingnun buoy
Collocations
12 entriesInflections
3 entriesDerivations
4 entriesTranslations
76 translations across 57 languages.
Afrikaans
1 entries- boei noun (moored float)
Albanian
1 entries- bovë noun (moored float)
Arabic
2 entries- شَمَنْدُورَة noun (moored float)
- عَوَّامَة noun (moored float)
Armenian
1 entries- ծփան noun (moored float)
Asturian
1 entries- boya noun (moored float)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- şamandıra noun (moored float)
Basque
1 entries- buia noun (moored float)
Belarusian
1 entries- буй noun (moored float)
Bulgarian
2 entries- буй noun (moored float)
- шамандура noun (moored float)
Catalan
1 entries- boia noun (moored float)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 浮標 /浮标 noun (moored float)
Czech
1 entries- bóje noun (moored float)
Danish
1 entries- bøje noun (moored float)
Dutch
1 entries- boei noun (moored float)
Esperanto
2 entries- buo noun (moored float)
- naĝobarelo noun (moored float)
Estonian
1 entries- poi noun (moored float)
Finnish
2 entries- poiju noun (moored float)
- reimari noun (moored float)
French
3 entries- balise noun (moored float)
- bouée noun (moored float)
- flotteur noun (moored float)
Galician
1 entries- boia noun (moored float)
Georgian
1 entries- ტივტივა noun (moored float)
German
2 entries- Boje noun (moored float)
- Tonne noun (moored float)
Greek
1 entries- σημαδούρα noun (moored float)
Hawaiian
1 entries- poe noun (moored float)
Hebrew
1 entries- מצוף noun (moored float)
Hungarian
1 entries- bója noun (moored float)
Icelandic
2 entries- bauja noun (moored float)
- dufl noun (moored float)
Ido
1 entries- boyo noun (moored float)
Ingrian
2 entries- buju noun (moored float)
- veha noun (moored float)
Irish
1 entries- baoi noun (moored float)
Italian
1 entries- boa noun (moored float)
Japanese
2 entries- ブイ noun (moored float)
- 浮標 noun (moored float)
Korean
2 entries- 부이 noun (moored float)
- 부표 noun (moored float)
Latin
1 entries- attollo noun (moored float)
Lithuanian
2 entries- buja noun (moored float)
- plūduras noun (moored float)
Lower Sorbian
1 entries- boja noun (moored float)
Macedonian
1 entries- пловка noun (moored float)
Malay
1 entries- pelampung noun (moored float)
Norman
2 entries- bondé noun (moored float)
- boule noun (moored float)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- bøye noun (moored float)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- bøye noun (moored float)
Ottoman Turkish
2 entries- شماندره noun (moored float)
- شماندوره noun (moored float)
Persian
1 entries- بویه noun (moored float)
Polish
2 entries- boja noun (moored float)
- pława noun (moored float)
Portuguese
1 entries- boia noun (moored float)
Romanian
1 entries- geamandură noun (moored float)
Russian
3 entries- ба́кен noun (moored float)
- буй noun (moored float)
- буёк noun (moored float)
Serbo-Croatian
3 entries- bova noun (moored float)
- plovak noun (moored float)
- plutača noun (moored float)
Slovene
1 entries- boja noun (moored float)
Spanish
1 entries- boya noun (moored float)
Swahili
1 entries- boya noun (moored float)
Swedish
1 entries- boj noun (moored float)
Tagalog
1 entries- palutang noun (moored float)
Turkish
1 entries- şamandıra noun (moored float)
Ukrainian
1 entries- буй noun (moored float)
Uyghur
1 entries- لەيمىلەك noun (moored float)
Vietnamese
1 entries- phao noun (moored float)
Welsh
1 entries- bwi noun (moored float)
Sample sentences
15 total sentences available.
The yacht sailed round a buoy.
Source: tatoeba (49745)
A ship's captain must remain observant that a reliable buoy be attached to each anchor by a sturdy rope, so that one could find and raise the anchor if its anchor-cable were to be shorn apart, were to fall into the sea or were to be hewn apart.
Source: tatoeba (1776092)
Florence was for me a life buoy in the sea of life.
Source: tatoeba (3246208)
Showing 4 of 15 available sentences.