transcription, транскрипция: [ hɔɪst ]
( hoists, hoisting, hoisted)
1.
If you hoist something heavy somewhere, you lift it or pull it up there.
Hoisting my suitcase on to my shoulder, I turned and headed toward my hotel...
Grabbing the side of the bunk, he hoisted himself to a sitting position.
VERB : V n prep / adv , V pron-refl prep / adv
2.
If something heavy is hoisted somewhere, it is lifted there using a machine such as a crane.
A twenty-foot steel pyramid is to be hoisted into position on top of the tower...
Then a crane hoisted him on to the platform.
VERB : be V-ed prep / adv , V n prep / adv
3.
A hoist is a machine for lifting heavy things.
N-COUNT
4.
If you hoist a flag or a sail, you pull it up to its correct position by using ropes.
A group of youths hoisted their flag on top of the disputed monument.
VERB : V n
5.
hoist with your own petard: see petard