"life buoy" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "From the way it can save someone's life by buoying them up so that they do not drown.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "life buoys",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "expansion": "life buoy (plural life buoys)",
      "name": "en-noun"
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  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "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": "quote"
        },
        {
          "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": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2007, Daniel E. Blaney, Old Orchard Beach:",
          "text": "Also, a life buoy was attached to the fuselage.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A buoyant object (most commonly torus-shaped) that is used as a life-saving device by keeping a person afloat."
      ],
      "id": "en-life_buoy-en-noun-dsWcukPo",
      "links": [
        [
          "buoyant",
          "buoyant"
        ],
        [
          "torus",
          "torus"
        ],
        [
          "afloat",
          "afloat"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(British) A buoyant object (most commonly torus-shaped) that is used as a life-saving device by keeping a person afloat."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "_dis1": "93 7",
          "word": "life jacket"
        }
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "tags": [
            "US"
          ],
          "word": "life preserver"
        },
        {
          "word": "life ring"
        },
        {
          "word": "lifesaver"
        },
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      "examples": [
        {
          "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": "quote"
        },
        {
          "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": "quote"
        },
        {
          "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": "quote"
        },
        {
          "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": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Something that rescues one from difficulties."
      ],
      "id": "en-life_buoy-en-noun-swTvLyXF",
      "links": [
        [
          "rescue",
          "rescue"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(British, figurative) Something that rescues one from difficulties."
      ],
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        "British",
        "figuratively"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "Lifebuoy"
  ],
  "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.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "life buoys",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "expansion": "life buoy (plural life buoys)",
      "name": "en-noun"
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  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "life jacket"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "British English",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "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": "quote"
        },
        {
          "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": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2007, Daniel E. Blaney, Old Orchard Beach:",
          "text": "Also, a life buoy was attached to the fuselage.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A buoyant object (most commonly torus-shaped) that is used as a life-saving device by keeping a person afloat."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "buoyant",
          "buoyant"
        ],
        [
          "torus",
          "torus"
        ],
        [
          "afloat",
          "afloat"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(British) A buoyant object (most commonly torus-shaped) that is used as a life-saving device by keeping a person afloat."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "tags": [
            "US"
          ],
          "word": "life preserver"
        },
        {
          "word": "life ring"
        },
        {
          "word": "lifesaver"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "British"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "British English",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "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": "quote"
        },
        {
          "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": "quote"
        },
        {
          "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": "quote"
        },
        {
          "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": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Something that rescues one from difficulties."
      ],
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        [
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(British, figurative) Something that rescues one from difficulties."
      ],
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        "figuratively"
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    {
      "word": "life-buoy"
    },
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  ],
  "word": "life buoy"
}