buoyage
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "It has not been considered necessary to make any special inspection of particular ports or rivers in the United Kingdom, the greater number of the Committee being already more or less familar with the buoyage of our coasts."
- "There is no description available of the vessel, which served here until it was replaced by buoyage marking these channels ."
- "In the absence of a route leading from seaward , the conventional direction of buoyage generally follows a clockwise direction around land masses."
- "For the more important channels the marking is done principally by means of buoys, and this makes the buoyage systems of very special importance in North America, and accounts for the large number in proportion to the area considered; more than half of the buoys of the world are in North America."
- "This chart will be affected by the introduction of a new system of buoyage (IALA System A) scheduled for implementation between April and August 1977."
- "In some charted waters, obsolescent buoyage ( Uniform System of Buoyage ) may still be encountered ."
Etymology
Etymology tree English buoy Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos Proto-Italic *-ātos Latin -ātus Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icus Latin -āticus Latin -āticum Old French -agebor. Middle English -age English -age English buoyage From buoy + -age.