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hoist

/hoist or, sometimes, hahyst/US // hɔɪst or, sometimes, haɪst //UK // (hɔɪst) //

举起,抬起,扬起,扬

Related Words

heave波浪,波涛汹涌,波涛,波浪形pick up捡起,拾起,拿起,捡拾erect竖立,竖直,竖起来,架设raise提高,抬高,抬起,抬起来uphold支持,坚持,维护,拥护upraise抬高,高举,拔高,抬头elevate提升,提升为,提升了,提升到uplift振作起来,振奋人心,振奋,振作rear后方,后部,后面,后面的take up接受,占据,占用,承担uprear涨停板,涨价,涨潮,涨幅

Definitions

v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to raise or lift, especially by some mechanical appliance: to hoist a flag; to hoist the mainsail.
    • : to raise to one's lips and drink; drink with gusto: Let's go hoist a few beers.
    • : Archaic. a simple past tense and past participle of hoise.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : an apparatus for hoisting, as a block and tackle, a derrick, or a crane.
    • : act of hoisting; a lift: Give that sofa a hoist at your end.
    • : Nautical. the vertical dimension amidships of any square sail that is hoisted with a yard.Compare drop. the distance between the hoisted and the lowered position of such a yard.the dimension of a fore-and-aft sail along the luff.a number of flags raised together as a signal.
    • : the vertical dimension as flown from a vertical staff.the edge running next to the staff.Compare fly.

Synonyms & Antonyms

verblift
Forms: hoisted
Synonyms
erect竖立,竖直,竖起来,架设heave波浪,波涛汹涌,波涛,波浪形pick up捡起,拾起,拿起,捡拾elevate提升,提升为,提升了,提升到raise提高,抬高,抬起,抬起来rear后方,后部,后面,后面的uphold支持,坚持,维护,拥护uplift振作起来,振奋人心,振奋,振作upraise抬高,高举,拔高,抬头take up接受,占据,占用,承担uprear涨停板,涨价,涨潮,涨幅

Examples

  • Once Judin was attached, the hoist brought them both back up.

  • Rescuing someone via a helicopter and its hoist is an especially dramatic and effective way for the Coast Guard to grab someone in distress at sea.

  • We lowered the hoist, Moore attached it to both him and the swimmer, and we pulled them back up and out of the water.

  • Commander David McCown, the air station’s executive officer, estimates hoist rescues happen roughly once a month.

  • Then the hoist pulled him up and out, and—after a thumbs-up from the duck—lowered him out of sight and into the sea.

  • We happily hoist our egg nog in the air, embrace each other, and raise our out-of-tune voices in song.

  • Hoist that big historical asterisk skyward and place it next to his name.

  • Carter scurried back to Mace and reached down to hoist him up.

  • But a significant number of your fellow citizens have a very different vision as they hoist the flag.

  • But the regime's canons push them back before they can hoist their flag over the liberated barracks.

  • The slings were affixed, the order to hoist was given by the mate, who had descended from the poop, and stood near the gangway.

  • If with the Vice-Admiral he will hoist a white flag at the end of the gaff or derrick, and fire two guns.

  • Harvey, without further notice of his companion, proceeded to hoist the sail a little so that he could take two reefs in it.

  • I will make a windlass as soon as I can, and we will soon hoist out another, like they turn a bucket of water up from a well.

  • I know 'em all, for I took care of their hall,—their armory,—and they made me hoist the flag one day union down.

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