What is another word for buoys?

Pronunciation: [bˈɔ͡ɪz] (IPA)

There are several synonyms for the word "buoys" that can help diversify your writing. One alternative term for buoys is "floats", which are typically used to mark swimming areas or to support fishing nets. Another synonym is "beacons", which are used to guide ships and boats in rough waters or to warn them of dangerous areas. A third term for buoys is "markers", which are often used to indicate boundaries or to denote the location of underwater obstacles. No matter which synonym you choose to use, it's important to ensure that it fits the context of your writing and accurately conveys the intended meaning.

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Usage examples for Buoys

Because of its precision it is the one used by the Government in placing buoys, etc.
"Lectures in Navigation"
Ernest Gallaudet Draper
As he walked the bridge now, keeping a sharp eye upon the buoys of the nets which were coming into view, he recalled the shameful way his generosity had been played upon by those women of his own family.
"Command"
William McFee
Blow all dime; we go ba'd-hoose, and he turns the boat toward a low-lying building anchored out from the main shore by huge chains secured to floating buoys.
"The Other Fellow"
F. Hopkinson Smith

Famous quotes with Buoys

  • The ground swell is what's going to sink you as well as being what buoys you up. These are cliches also, of course, and I'm sometimes interested in how much one can get away with.
    Paul Muldoon
  • He always thought of the sea as , which is what people call her in spanish when they love her. Sometimes those who love her say bad things of her, but they are always said as though she were a woman. Some of the younger fisherman, those who used buoys as floats for their lines or had motorboats bought when the shark lovers had much money, spoke of her as , which is masculine, they spoke of her as a contestant or a place or even an enemy. But the old man always thought of her as feminine, as something that gave or withheld great favors. If she did wild or wicked things, it is because she could not help them. The moon affects her as it does a woman, he thought.
    Ernest Hemingway
  • Between the crowded houses of Gravesend and the monstrous red-brick pile on the Essex shore the ship is surrendered fairly to the grasp of the river. That hint of loneliness, that soul of the sea which had accompanied her as far as the Lower Hope Reach, abandons her at the turn of the first bend above. The salt, acrid flavour is gone out of the air, together with a sense of unlimited space opening free beyond the threshold of sandbanks below the Nore. The waters of the sea rush on past Gravesend, tumbling the big mooring buoys laid along the face of the town; but the sea-freedom stops short there, surrendering the salt tide to the needs, the artifices, the contrivances of toiling men. Wharves, landing-places, dock-gates, waterside stairs, follow each other continuously right up to London Bridge, and the hum of men’s work fills the river with a menacing, muttering note as of a breathless, ever-driving gale. The water-way, so fair above and wide below, flows oppressed by bricks and mortar and stone, by blackened timber and grimed glass and rusty iron, covered with black barges, whipped up by paddles and screws, overburdened with craft, overhung with chains, overshadowed by walls making a steep gorge for its bed, filled with a haze of smoke and dust.
    Joseph Conrad
  • Three-thirty in the morning...To Ray Garraty it seemed the longest minute of the longest night of his entire life. It was low tide, dead ebb, the time when the sea washes back, leaving slick mudflats covered with straggled weed, rusty beer cans, rotted prophylactics, broken bottles, smashed buoys, and green-mossed skeletons in tattered bathing trunks. It was dead ebb.
    Stephen King

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