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Buoy vs Uplift - What's the difference?

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Buoy is a related term of uplift.


As nouns the difference between buoy and uplift

is that buoy is (nautical) a float moored in water to mark a location, warn of danger, or indicate a navigational channel while uplift is the act or result of being uplifted.

As verbs the difference between buoy and uplift

is that buoy is to keep afloat or aloft; used with up while uplift is to raise something or someone to a higher physical, social, moral, intellectual, spiritual or emotional level.

buoy

English

Noun

(wikipedia buoy) (en noun)
  • (nautical) A float moored in water to mark a location, warn of danger, or indicate a navigational channel.
  • A life-buoy.
  • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To keep afloat or aloft; used with up .
  • To support or maintain at a high level.
  • * Burke
  • Those old prejudices, which buoy up the ponderous mass of his nobility, wealth, and title.
  • To mark with a buoy.
  • to buoy''' an anchor; to '''buoy''' or '''buoy off a channel
  • * Darwin
  • Not one rock near the surface was discovered which was not buoyed by this floating weed.
  • To maintain or enhance enthusiasm or confidence
  • * 2013 , Daniel Taylor, Danny Welbeck leads England's rout of Moldova but hit by Ukraine ban'' (in ''The Guardian , 6 September 2013)[http://www.theguardian.com/football/2013/sep/06/england-moldova-world-cup-qualifier-matchreport]
  • 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.
    Buoyed by the huge success, they announced two other projects.
    Derived terms
    * buoy up

    Derived terms

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

    uplift

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To raise something or someone to a higher physical, social, moral, intellectual, spiritual or emotional level.
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act or result of being uplifted.
  • (geology) A tectonic upheaval, especially one that takes place in the process of mountain building.
  • (colloquial) A brassiere that raises the breasts.
  • Anagrams

    * * English heteronyms