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hoist
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)
- (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.
- 1719, Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe:
- (transitive, sports, often figuratively) To lift a trophy or similar prize into the air in celebration of a victory.
- (transitive, historical) To lift someone up to be flogged.
- (intransitive) To be lifted up.
- (transitive, computing theory) To extract (code) from a loop construct as part of optimization.
- (transitive, slang) To steal.
- (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)
- A hoisting device, such as pulley or crane.
- The act of hoisting; a lift.
- Give me a hoist over that wall.
- The perpendicular height of a flag, as opposed to the fly, or horizontal length, when flying from a staff.
- The vertical edge of a flag which is next to the staff.
- The height of a fore-and-aft sail, next the mast or stay.
Translations
References
- hoist on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- histo, histo-, hoits, shito
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frontline
English
Alternative forms
- front-line (in attributive use); front line
Etymology
front +? line
Adjective
frontline (not comparable)
- (military) Located at a front
- Most advanced or important
Translations
Noun
frontline (plural frontlines)
- Alternative spelling of front line
Derived terms
- frontliner
Anagrams
- nonfilter
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