Boy vs. Buoy — What's the Difference?

A boy is a young male human. The term is usually used for a child or an adolescent.

A buoy (, ) is a floating device that can have many purposes. It can be anchored (stationary) or allowed to drift with ocean currents.

A male child.

A float placed in water and usually moored, as to mark a location, enable retrieval of a sunken object, or record oceanographic data.

A son

A life buoy.

Often Offensive A man, especially a young man.

To keep afloat or aloft

(Informal) A man socializing in a group of men

To maintain at a high level; support

(Offensive) A male servant or employee.

To hearten or inspire; uplift

Used to express mild astonishment, elation, or disgust

To mark with or as if with a buoy.

A young male.

(nautical) A float moored in water to mark a location, warn of danger, indicate a navigational channel or for other purposes

(particularly) A male child or adolescent, as distinguished from infants or adults.

A life-buoy; a life preserver.

(diminutive) A son of any age.

(transitive) To keep afloat or aloft; used with up.

A male of any age, particularly one rather younger than the speaker.

(transitive) To support or maintain at a high level.

(obsolete) A male of low station, (especially as pejorative) a worthless male, a wretch; a mean and dishonest male, a knave.

(transitive) To mark with a buoy.

A male servant, slave, assistant, or employee, particularly:

To maintain or enhance enthusiasm or confidence; to lift the spirits of.

A younger such worker.

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.

A non-white male servant regardless of age, particularly as a form of address.

To keep from sinking in a fluid, as in water or air; to keep afloat; - with up.

(obsolete) A male camp follower.

To support or sustain; to preserve from sinking into ruin or despondency.

Any non-white male, regardless of age.

To fix buoys to; to mark by a buoy or by buoys; as, to buoy an anchor; to buoy or buoy off a channel.

A male animal, especially, in affectionate address, a male dog.

To float; to rise like a buoy.

A former low rank of various armed services; a holder of this rank.

Bright-colored; a float attached by rope to the seabed to mark channels in a harbor or underwater hazards

Heroin.

Float on the surface of water

A male (tree, gene, etc).

Keep afloat;

Exclamation of surprise, pleasure or longing.

Mark with a buoy

(transitive) To act as a boy in allusion to the former practice of boys acting women's parts on the stage.

A male child, from birth to the age of puberty; a lad; hence, a son.

In various countries, a male servant, laborer, or slave of a native or inferior race; also, any man of such a race; - considered derogatory by those so called, and now seldom used.

To act as a boy; - in allusion to the former practice of boys acting women's parts on the stage.

A youthful male person;

A friendly informal reference to a grown man;

A male human offspring;

(ethnic slur) offensive term for Black man;