different between inspire vs buoy

English

Etymology

From Middle English inspiren, enspiren, from Old French inspirer, variant of espirer, from Latin ?nsp?r?re, present active infinitive of ?nsp?r? (“inspire”), itself a loan-translation of Biblical Ancient Greek ???? (pné?, “breathe”), from in + sp?r? (“breathe”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?n.?spa??/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?n.?spa??(?)/
• Rhymes: -a??(?)

Verb

inspire (third-person singular simple present inspires, present participle inspiring, simple past and past participle inspired)

1. (transitive) To infuse into the mind; to communicate to the spirit; to convey, as by a divine or supernatural influence; to disclose preternaturally; to produce in, as by inspiration.
   • c. 1588-1593, William Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus

     Dawning day new comfort hath inspired.
2. (transitive) To infuse into; to affect, as with a superior or supernatural influence; to fill with what animates, enlivens or exalts; to communicate inspiration to.

   Elders should inspire children with sentiments of virtue.

   • Erato, thy poet's mind inspire, / And fill his soul with thy celestial fire.

3. (intransitive) To draw in by the operation of breathing; to inhale.
   • c. 1670, Gideon Harvey, Morbus Anglicus", Or a Theoretick and Practical Discourse of Consumptions and Hypochondriack Melancholy... Likewise a Discourse of Spitting of Blood

     By means of those sulfurous coal smokes the lungs are as it were stifled and extremely oppressed, whereby they are forced to inspire and expire the air with difficulty.

4. To infuse by breathing, or as if by breathing.
5. (archaic, transitive) To breathe into; to fill with the breath; to animate.
6. (transitive) To spread rumour indirectly.

Conjugation

Synonyms

• beghast

Antonyms

• (inhale): expire

Derived terms

• inspirer

Related terms

• inspiration
• inspirational
• inspirator
• inspiratory

Translations

Anagrams

• spinier

Asturian

Verb

inspire

1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive of inspirar

French

Verb

inspire

1. inflection of inspirer:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Portuguese

Verb

inspire

1. First-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of inspirar
2. Third-person singular (ele, ela, also used with tu and você^?) present subjunctive of inspirar
3. Third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of inspirar
4. Third-person singular (você) negative imperative of inspirar

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [in?spire]

Verb

inspire

1. third-person singular present subjunctive of inspira
2. third-person plural present subjunctive of inspira

Spanish

Verb

inspire

1. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of inspirar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of inspirar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of inspirar.
4. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of inspirar.

English

Etymology

From Middle English boy, boye, from Middle Dutch boeye (“float, buoy”), perhaps a special use of Middle Dutch boeye (“shackle, fetter”), from Old French buie (“fetter, chain”) (compare modern bouée), probably from Frankish *baukn, or alternatively from Latin boia (“a (leather) collar, band, fetter”), from Ancient Greek ????? (bóeos), ?????? (bóeios, “of ox-hide”), from ???? (boûs, “ox”), from Proto-Indo-European *g?ow- (“cow”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, Canada) IPA^(key): /?b??/

  Homophone: boy

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?bu.i/, /?b??/
• Rhymes: -u?i, -??
• (obsolete) IPA^(key): /?bw??/

Noun

buoy (plural buoys)

1. (nautical) A float moored in water to mark a location, warn of danger, or indicate a navigational channel.
2. A life-buoy; a life preserver.

Derived terms

• lifebuoy
• light buoy
• mooring buoy
• buoyant
• buoyancy

Translations

Verb

buoy (third-person singular simple present buoys, present participle buoying, simple past and past participle buoyed)

1. (transitive) To keep afloat or aloft; used with up.
2. (transitive) To support or maintain at a high level.
3. (transitive) To mark with a buoy.

   to buoy an anchor; to buoy or buoy off a channel

   • 1839, Charles Darwin, Journal of Researches into the Geology and Natural History of the Various Countries Visited by H.M.S. Beagle, London: Henry Colburn, Chapter 13, p. 303,^[1]

     Not one rock near the surface was discovered which was not buoyed by this floating weed.

4. To maintain or enhance enthusiasm or confidence; to lift the spirits of.
   • 2013, Daniel Taylor, Danny Welbeck leads England's rout of Moldova but hit by Ukraine ban (in The Guardian, 6 September 2013)[2]

     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

Translations

Derived terms

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

Anagrams

• buyo