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hoist 中文解釋 wordnet sense Collocation Usage Collins Definition
Verb
/hoist/,
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hoisted, past participle; hoists, 3rd person singular present; hoisting, present participle; hoisted, past tense;
  1. Raise (something) by means of ropes and pulleys
    • - high overhead great cranes hoisted girders
  2. Raise or haul up
    • - she hoisted her backpack onto her shoulder
Noun
  1. An act of raising or lifting something

  2. An act of increasing something
    • - the government's interest rate hoist
  3. An apparatus for lifting or raising something

  4. The part of a flag nearest the staff; the vertical dimension of a flag

  5. A group of flags raised as a signal

  1. lifting device for raising heavy or cumbersome objects
  2. raise or haul up with or as if with mechanical help; "hoist the bicycle onto the roof of the car"
  3. move from one place to another by lifting; "They hoisted the patient onto the operating table"
  4. raise; "hoist the flags"; "hoist a sail"
  5. Hoist is the seventh studio album by the jam band Phish. At the time of its release, Hoist was Phish's best selling album. Hoist includes guest appearances from Alison Krauss, Béla Fleck, and other musicians, as well as actor Jonathan Frakes on trombone. ...
  6. A hoist is a device used for lifting or lowering a load by means of a drum or lift-wheel around which rope or chain wraps. It may be manually operated, electrically or pneumatically driven and may use chain, fiber or wire rope as its lifting medium. ...
  7. The design and description of flags typically uses specialized flag terminology with precise and technical meanings, and is hence a form of jargon.
  8. In underground mining a hoist or winder is used to raise and lower conveyances within the mine shaft. ...
  9. A hoist motion is used in Canadian legislative bodies to cause a bill not to be read now, but six months hence, or any number of months hence.
  10. Hoist is the name of two fictional characters in the Transformers universes.
  11. A hoisting device, such as pulley or crane; The perpendicular height of a flag, as opposed to the fly, or horizontal length, when flying from a staff; The vertical edge of a flag which is next to the staff; The height of a fore-and-aft sail, next the mast or stay; To raise; to lift; to elevate; ...
  12. A mechanical lifting device usually attached to a trolley that travels along a bridge, monorail, or jib crane. May be chain or electric operated.
  13. A machinery unit that is used for lifting and lowering a load.
  14. The mechanism by which a bucket or blade is lifted, or the process of lifting it.
  15. a structure placed in the water or below the ordinary high-water mark for boat storage, including platforms for storage of personal watercraft. ...
  16. A lifting device with a ‘sling’ used for transferring in and out of bed.
  17. A power-driven windlass for raising ore, rock or other material from a mine and for lowering or raising men and material. Also called hoister.
  18. (1) A common piece of equipment used for lifting objects; (2) the process of moving an object.
  19. The part of a flag nearest the staff; also a synonym for "width"; also to raise a flag.
  20. To haul or raise anything aloft; also another name for the luff of a sail. The side of a flag next to the mast or halyard.
  21. the act or function of raising a flag, as on a rope.
  22. an arrangement of pulleys and wire rope or chain used for lifting heavy objects.
  23. The mechanism on a palletizer by which a layer or load of product is raised or lowered to position the load to accept a layer of product or for discharge of the load.
  24. a mechanical device that provides upward and downward movement of loads suspended from a crane or an overhead lifting system.
  25. The depth of any flag from chief to base; also its head or upper side.