hoist / hɔɪst or, sometimes, haɪst /

💦中学词汇举起抬起扬起

hoist2 个定义

v. 有主动词 verb
  1. to raise or lift, especially by some mechanical appliance: to hoist a flag; to hoist the mainsail.
  2. to raise to one's lips and drink; drink with gusto: Let's go hoist a few beers.
  3. Archaic. a simple past tense and past participle of hoise.
n. 名词 noun
  1. an apparatus for hoisting, as a block and tackle, a derrick, or a crane.
  2. act of hoisting; a lift: Give that sofa a hoist at your end.
  3. 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.
  4. the vertical dimension as flown from a vertical staff.the edge running next to the staff.Compare fly.

hoist 近义词

v. 动词 verb

lift

更多hoist例句

  1. Once Judin was attached, the hoist brought them both back up.
  2. 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.
  3. We lowered the hoist, Moore attached it to both him and the swimmer, and we pulled them back up and out of the water.
  4. Commander David McCown, the air station’s executive officer, estimates hoist rescues happen roughly once a month.
  5. 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.
  6. We happily hoist our egg nog in the air, embrace each other, and raise our out-of-tune voices in song.
  7. Hoist that big historical asterisk skyward and place it next to his name.
  8. Carter scurried back to Mace and reached down to hoist him up.
  9. But a significant number of your fellow citizens have a very different vision as they hoist the flag.
  10. But the regime's canons push them back before they can hoist their flag over the liberated barracks.
  11. The slings were affixed, the order to hoist was given by the mate, who had descended from the poop, and stood near the gangway.
  12. If with the Vice-Admiral he will hoist a white flag at the end of the gaff or derrick, and fire two guns.
  13. Harvey, without further notice of his companion, proceeded to hoist the sail a little so that he could take two reefs in it.
  14. 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.
  15. I know 'em all, for I took care of their hall,—their armory,—and they made me hoist the flag one day union down.