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{
"etymology_text": "From the way it can save someone's life by buoying them up so that they do not drown.",
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"ref": "1910, Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office",
"text": "A spherical life buoy having an air chamber formed therein, an entrance opening communicating with the interior of said life buoy, air inlet and exhaust pipes extending exteriorly therof, a perforated housing for each of said pipes, a dome secured to teh periphery of said life buoy and covering said housings, said dome being perforated, and means for supporting said life buoy upon the deck of a vessel.",
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{
"ref": "1981, Compilation of Regulations Related to Mineral Resource Activities",
"text": "At least four approved ring life buoys shall be placed on each manned platform.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2007, Daniel E. Blaney, Old Orchard Beach",
"text": "Also, a life buoy was attached to the fuselage.",
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},
{
"ref": "2012, Jay Henry Mowbray, Sinking of the Titanic: Eyewitness Accounts",
"text": "He had on a life buoy and a life preserver. He clung there a moment and then he slid off again.",
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}
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"A buoyant object (most commonly torus-shaped) that is used as a life-saving device by keeping a person afloat."
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"(British) A buoyant object (most commonly torus-shaped) that is used as a life-saving device by keeping a person afloat."
],
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"word": "life jacket"
}
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"word": "life preserver"
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"word": "life ring"
},
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"word": "lifesaver"
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"ref": "2001, Suzanne Jill Levine, Manuel Puig and the Spider Woman: His Life and Fictions, page 166",
"text": "Fearing that he might become permanently sewn into the Air France uniform he put on every morning, Manuel regarded Mario's faith in him as a life buoy.",
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},
{
"ref": "2006, Peter van Kemseke, Towards an Era of Development, page 43",
"text": "Above all, the Marshall Plan was a life buoy for the then sinking French economy.",
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},
{
"ref": "2008, Fleur Yano, Collected Writings of Flora Belle Jan, page 89",
"text": "I but pity him, who, losing me, found the bright stars dimmed, And frantically seized you as a life buoy.",
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},
{
"ref": "2012, Holly Reese, Rising from the Abyss, page 116",
"text": "I was so exhausted and weak that several times, I nearly collapsed in the store. My shopping cart became my life buoy as I hung on to it and stubbornly kept going.",
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"Something that rescues one from difficulties."
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"(British, figurative) Something that rescues one from difficulties."
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"Lifebuoy"
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"word": "life buoy"
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"etymology_text": "From the way it can save someone's life by buoying them up so that they do not drown.",
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"ref": "1910, Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office",
"text": "A spherical life buoy having an air chamber formed therein, an entrance opening communicating with the interior of said life buoy, air inlet and exhaust pipes extending exteriorly therof, a perforated housing for each of said pipes, a dome secured to teh periphery of said life buoy and covering said housings, said dome being perforated, and means for supporting said life buoy upon the deck of a vessel.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1981, Compilation of Regulations Related to Mineral Resource Activities",
"text": "At least four approved ring life buoys shall be placed on each manned platform.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2007, Daniel E. Blaney, Old Orchard Beach",
"text": "Also, a life buoy was attached to the fuselage.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2012, Jay Henry Mowbray, Sinking of the Titanic: Eyewitness Accounts",
"text": "He had on a life buoy and a life preserver. He clung there a moment and then he slid off again.",
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}
],
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],
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"(British) A buoyant object (most commonly torus-shaped) that is used as a life-saving device by keeping a person afloat."
],
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"word": "life preserver"
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"ref": "2001, Suzanne Jill Levine, Manuel Puig and the Spider Woman: His Life and Fictions, page 166",
"text": "Fearing that he might become permanently sewn into the Air France uniform he put on every morning, Manuel regarded Mario's faith in him as a life buoy.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2006, Peter van Kemseke, Towards an Era of Development, page 43",
"text": "Above all, the Marshall Plan was a life buoy for the then sinking French economy.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2008, Fleur Yano, Collected Writings of Flora Belle Jan, page 89",
"text": "I but pity him, who, losing me, found the bright stars dimmed, And frantically seized you as a life buoy.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2012, Holly Reese, Rising from the Abyss, page 116",
"text": "I was so exhausted and weak that several times, I nearly collapsed in the store. My shopping cart became my life buoy as I hung on to it and stubbornly kept going.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
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"Something that rescues one from difficulties."
],
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"(British, figurative) Something that rescues one from difficulties."
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