Buoy
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- (FIGURATIVE) ជួយ, គាំទ្រ, គាំពារ, ការពារ, តស៊ូនឹង, អះអាង, buoy a channel ដាក់ពោង
noun
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- (NAUTICAL) (An anchored floating object marking a navigable channel to warn of rocks, etc, or to mark a channel a lifebuoy) ពោង (សញ្ញាប្រាប់ផ្លូវនាវា)
verb — past tense: buoyed ; past participle: buoyed ; present participle: buoying ;
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- (TRANSITIVE) ~ somebody something (up) (to fix buoys. to buoy up, to keep afloat) ដាក់ពោង, បណ្ដែតពោង
ENGLISH MEANING
noun
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- 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.
verb — past tense: buoyed ; past participle: buoyed ; present participle: buoying ;
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- (TRANSITIVE) To keep from sinking in a fluid, as in water or air; to keep afloat; -- with up.
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- (TRANSITIVE) To support or sustain; to preserve from sinking into ruin or despondency.
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- (TRANSITIVE) To fix buoys to; to mark by a buoy or by buoys; as, to buoy an anchor; to buoy or buoy off a channel.
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- (INTRANSITIVE) To float; to rise like a buoy.