hoist
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
computing-theory
engineering
hobbies
lifestyle
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
sports
Etymology: Alteration of earlier hoise (“to hoist”), apparently based on the past tense forms, from Middle Dutch hisen (“to hoist”). Compare modern Dutch hijsen (“to hoist”), German hissen (“to hoist”), Danish hejse (“to hoist”). Compare also French hisser (“to hoist”), Galician isar (“to hoist”), Spanish izar (“to hoist”), Catalan hissar (“to hoist”), Italian issare (“to hoist”),
Portuguese içar (“to hoist”), Sicilian jisari (“to hoist”), all borrowed from a Germanic source.
Inflected forms:
form: hoists
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: hoisting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: hoisted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: hoisted
pos: verb
tags: past
form: hoist
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: hoist
pos: verb
tags: past
form: hoists
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To raise; to lift; to elevate (especially, to raise or lift to a desired elevation, by means of tackle or pulley, said of a sail, a flag, a heavy package or weight).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: For tis the ſport to haue the enginer / Hoiſt with his ovvne petar, an't ſhall goe hard / But I vvill delue one yard belovve their mines, / And blovve them at the Moone: […]
They land my goods, and hoist my flying sails.
[Abasalom's] ambition would needs be fingering the sceptre, and hoisting him into his father's throne
[…] but this last was so heavy, I could not hoist it up to get it over the ship's side.
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.
gloss: To lift a trophy or similar prize into the air in celebration of a victory.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
often
transitive
examples: And when skipper Richie McCaw hoisted the Webb Ellis Trophy high into the night, a quarter of a century of hurt was blown away in an explosion of fireworks and cheering.
gloss: To lift someone up to be flogged.
pos: verb
tags: historical
transitive
examples: Again Pilatus answered them, What shall I do to the Jew’s king? They again cried out and said, Hoist him! Then said Pilatus, What evil did he? They so much the more cried, Hoist him!
gloss: To be lifted up.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To extract (code) from a loop construct as part of optimization.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To steal.
pos: verb
tags: slang
transitive
examples: When you’ve reached neutral territory, when you’ve stashed the loot hoisted from the warlord’s mansion – well, he didn't have much use for it any more, did he?
gloss: To rob.
pos: verb
tags: slang
transitive
examples: Why, it was nothing to travel about the country with fifty grand worth of ice on me. Suppose I hadn’t packed a roscoe—hell, I’d of been hoisted once a week!
gloss: Any member of certain classes of devices that hoist things.
pos: noun
gloss: The act of hoisting; a lift.
pos: noun
examples: Give me a hoist over that wall.
gloss: The triangular vertical position of a flag, as opposed to the flying state, or triangular vertical position of a sail, when flying from a mast.
pos: noun
gloss: The position of a flag (on a mast) or of a sail on a ship when lifted up to its highest level.
pos: noun
gloss: The position of a main fore-and-aft topsail on a ship and fore fore-and-aft topsail on a ship.
pos: noun
Derived words: hoistable
hoistaway
hoister
hoistless
hoist on one's own petard
hoistroom
hoist the white flag
hoistway
hoist with one's own petard
rehoist
unhoist
unhoisted
uphoist
buck-hoist
buck hoist
Hills hoist
hoist bridge
hoist frame
hoistman
safety hoist
skip hoist
Translations:
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 旗面縱邊 /旗面纵边
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 帆的升高
roman: fān de shēnggāo
lang: Finnish
word: korkeus