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HOIST
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Dictionary entry overview: What does hoist mean?
• HOIST (noun)
The noun HOIST has 1 sense:
1. lifting device for raising heavy or cumbersome objects
Familiarity information: HOIST used as a noun is very rare.
• HOIST (verb)
The verb HOIST has 3 senses:
1. raise or haul up with or as if with mechanical help
2. move from one place to another by lifting
Familiarity information: HOIST used as a verb is uncommon.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Lifting device for raising heavy or cumbersome objects
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("hoist" is a kind of...):
lifting device (a device for lifting heavy loads)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "hoist"):
block and tackle (pulley blocks with associated rope or cable)
headgear (the hoist at the pithead of a mine)
wheel and axle (hoist so arranged that a rope unwinding from a wheel is wound onto a cylindrical drum or shaft coaxial with the wheel)
Derivation:
hoist (raise or haul up with or as if with mechanical help)
Conjugation: |
Past simple: hoisted
Past participle: hoisted
-ing form: hoisting
Sense 1
Meaning:
Raise or haul up with or as if with mechanical help
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Synonyms:
Context example:
hoist the bicycle onto the roof of the car
Hypernyms (to "hoist" is one way to...):
bring up; elevate; get up; lift; raise (raise from a lower to a higher position)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "hoist"):
trice; trice up (hoist up or in and lash or secure with a small rope)
Sentence frames:
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Something ----s somebody
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Derivation:
hoist (lifting device for raising heavy or cumbersome objects)
hoister (an operator of a hoist)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Move from one place to another by lifting
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Context example:
They hoisted the patient onto the operating table
Hypernyms (to "hoist" is one way to...):
bring up; elevate; get up; lift; raise (raise from a lower to a higher position)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something PP
Sentence example:
They hoist the bags on the table
Sense 3
Meaning:
Raise
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Synonyms:
hoist; run up
Context example:
hoist a sail
Hypernyms (to "hoist" is one way to...):
bring up; elevate; get up; lift; raise (raise from a lower to a higher position)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Context examples
Carrying the boom-tackle to the windlass, I hoisted the mast nearly clear of the deck.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
Over the bed, hoisted by a tackle to the ceiling, was his bicycle.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
I hoist my flag on the Victory on Wednesday, and we sail at once.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He hoisted it on to the vehicle, which was a sort of car, and then I got in; before he shut me up, I asked him how far it was to Thornfield.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
If we put these three ammunition cases under the branch, I will soon hoist you on to it.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Between us, with much trouble, we managed to hoist him upstairs, and laid him on his bed, where his head fell back on the pillow as if he were almost fainting.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
After a short, final struggle he was hoisted, still bound hand and foot, into the spare seat of the little car.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I then found myself hoisted up, by degrees, at least three feet higher than I was before.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
My sobs kept waking me, for a long time; and when one very strong sob quite hoisted me up in bed, I found my mother sitting on the coverlet, and leaning over me.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Using the sled-lashing for a heaving rope, and with the aid of the dogs, he hoisted the coffin to the top of the scaffold.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
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