different between hoist vs elate

English

Etymology

Alteration of hoise, apparently based on the past tense and participle. Compare Danish hejse, Dutch hijsen, German hissen, Italian issare, Sicilian jisari (loaned from a Germanic source).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /h??st/
• Hyphenation: hoist
• Rhymes: -??st

Verb

hoist (third-person singular simple present hoists, present participle hoisting, simple past and past participle hoisted or hoist)

1. (transitive) 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).
   • 1719, Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe:

     […] but this last was so heavy, I could not hoist it up to get it over the ship's side.

   • 1883, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island

     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.

2. (transitive, sports, often figuratively) To lift a trophy or similar prize into the air in celebration of a victory.
3. (transitive, historical) To lift someone up to be flogged.
4. (intransitive) To be lifted up.
5. (transitive, computing theory) To extract (code) from a loop construct as part of optimization.
6. (transitive, slang) To steal.
7. (transitive, slang) To rob.

Usage notes

• "Hoisted" is about fifteen times more common than "hoist" in US usage as past and past participle. The "hoist" form is also uncommon in the UK except in the expression "hoist by one's own petard".

Derived terms

• hoist with one's own petard

Translations

Noun

hoist (plural hoists)

1. A hoisting device, such as pulley or crane.
2. The act of hoisting; a lift.

   Give me a hoist over that wall.

3. The perpendicular height of a flag, as opposed to the fly, or horizontal length, when flying from a staff.
4. The vertical edge of a flag which is next to the staff.
5. The height of a fore-and-aft sail, next the mast or stay.

Translations

References

• hoist on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• histo, histo-, hoits, shito

English

Etymology

From Middle English elat, elate, from Latin ?l?tus (“exalted, lofty”), perfect passive participle of effer? (“bring forth or out; raise; exalt”), from ? (“out of”) (short form of ex) + fer? (“carry, bear”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??le?t/
• Rhymes: -e?t

Verb

elate (third-person singular simple present elates, present participle elating, simple past and past participle elated)

1. (transitive) To make joyful or proud.
2. (transitive) To lift up; raise; elevate.

Translations

Adjective

elate

1. elated; exultant
   • 1895, Helen Hunt Jackson, The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, Volume 28

     Our nineteenth century is wonderfully set up in its own esteem, wonderfully elate at its progress.

2. (obsolete) Lifted up; raised; elevated.
   • c. 1707, Elijah Fenton, a letter to the Knight of the Sable Shield

     with upper lip elate

   • a. 1794, William Jones, an ode in imitation of Alcaeus

     And sovereign law, that State's collected will, / O'er thrones and globes, elate, / Sits empress, crowning good, repressing ill.

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:elate.

Related terms

• elated
• elation
• efferent

Anagrams

• Atlee, Teela, alete, telae

Estonian

Verb

elate

1. second-person plural present indicative of elama

Latin

Etymology 1

From ?l?tus (“exalted, lofty”), perfect passive participle of effer? (“bring forth or out; raise; exalt”), from ? (“out of”), short form of ex, + fer? (“carry, bear”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /e??la?.te?/, [e????ä?t?e?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /e?la.te/, [??l??t??]

Adverb

?l?t? (comparative ?l?tus or ?l?tius, no superlative)

1. loftily, proudly
   • c. 177, Gellius: Noctes Atticae, Book 9, Chapter 15, Verse 4

     Introit adulescens et praefatur arrogantius et elatius, quam aetati eius decebat, ac deinde iubet exponi controversias.

     The young fellow entered the room, made some preliminary remarks in a more arrogant and presumptuous style than became his years, and then asked that subjects for debate be given him.

Related terms

• ?l?ti?
• ?l?tus

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ????? (elát?).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?e.la.te?/, [????ät?e?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?e.la.te/, [???l?t??]

Noun

elat? f (genitive elat?s); first declension

1. A sort of fir
2. The leaf of the palm bud

Declension

First-declension noun (Greek-type).

References

• elate in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• elate in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• elate in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Middle English

Adjective

elate

1. Alternative form of elat