Word forms: plural, 3rd person singular presenttense hoists, present participle hoisting, past tense, past participle hoisted
1. verb
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. [VERB noun preposition/adverb]
Grabbing the side of the bunk, he hoisted himself to a sitting position. [VERB pronoun-reflexive preposition/adverb]
[Also VERB noun]
Synonyms: raise, lift, erect, elevate More Synonyms of hoist
2. verb
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. [beVERB-ed preposition/adverb]
Then a crane hoisted him on to the platform. [VERB noun preposition/adverb]
3. countable noun
A hoist is a machine for lifting heavy things.
Synonyms: lift, crane, elevator, winch More Synonyms of hoist
4. verb
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 noun]
5. hoist with your own petard
hoist in British English
(hɔɪst)
verb
1. (transitive)
to raise or lift up, esp by mechanical means
2. hoist with one's own petard
noun
3.
any apparatus or device for hoisting
4.
the act of hoisting
5. rotary clothesline
6. nautical
a.
the amidships height of a sail bent to the yard with which it is hoisted
Compare drop (sense 15)
b.
the difference between the set and lowered positions of this yard
7. nautical
the length of the luff of a fore-and-aft sail
8. nautical
a group of signal flags
9.
the inner edge of a flag next to the staff
Compare fly1 (sense 25)
Derived forms
hoister (ˈhoister)
noun
Word origin
C16: variant of hoise, probably from Low German; compare Dutch hijschen, German hissen
hoist in American English
(hɔɪst)
verb transitive
1.
to raise aloft; lift or pull up, esp. by means of a cable, pulley, crane, etc.
noun
2.
an act of hoisting
3.
an apparatus for raising heavy things; elevator; tackle
4. Nautical
a.
the perpendicular height of a sail or flag
b.
a group of signal flags displayed together on one line
SIMILAR WORDS: lift
Word origin
< hoise + unhistoric -t (< ? the pp.)
More idioms containing
hoist
hoist by your own petard
Examples of 'hoist' in a sentence
hoist
From early in the second set there was little doubt which team would soon be hoisting the trophy in an increasingly one-sided contest.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
From early in the second set there was little doubt which team would soon be hoistingthe trophy in an increasingly one-sided contest.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
Hence his cheery greeting to a posse that were hoisting distress signals at such an early hour.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
Still find the time to hoist sails?
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
He was hoisted aloft by the crowds.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
By the close the barricades were down and the white flag had been hoisted.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
They were hoisted up by crane last month.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
Will we see him hoisting the trophy again in a week's time?
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
It's a relief when we hoist the heavy sails into a pale dawn sky.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
They should have used a mechanical hoist or other specialist equipment, but they were often too busy.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
Or from your country's flag hoisted aloft the podium to the rousing swell of your own national anthem?
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
In fact he was said to be almost 20st and to need a hoist to lift him on to his horse.
The Sun (2015)
Only one sailor asked what he was doing, but he returned to hoisting a flag when told our man was a cleaner.
The Sun (2006)
A bomb disposal team checked the tank was carrying no live shells before it was dug out and hoisted clear by crane.
The Sun (2008)
Most athletes who have devoted themselves to training for the Olympics will not stand on the podium seeing their national flag hoist in their honour.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
They had dug down beneath the cracked pipe, slipped supports under it and hoisted it into position and then bound it with tape and glue.
Len Deighton Bomber
And the guy, lifted on a hoist, who appeared to run round the top tier before lighting the flame?
The Sun (2008)
We pull away neatly from the end of the jetty and, once clear of the harbour wall, hoist both sails.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
I get showered, dried and dressed in the shower chair, then a hoist lifts me into my motorised wheelchair.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
It is as if he views his life's marvels not as a trophy to hoist for the camera, but as a gift to steward and share.
Christianity Today (2000)
In other languages
hoist
British English: hoist VERB
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 towards my hotel.
American English: hoist
Brazilian Portuguese: içar
Chinese: 提起
European Spanish: levantar
French: hisser
German: hochheben
Italian: issare
Japanese: 持ち上げる
Korean: 들어올리다
European Portuguese: içar
Latin American Spanish: levantar
British English: hoist NOUN
A hoist is a machine for lifting heavy things.
He uses a hydraulic hoist to unload two empty barrels.
American English: hoist
Brazilian Portuguese: guincho
Chinese: 提起
European Spanish: grúa
French: treuil
German: Hebevorrichtung
Italian: paranco
Japanese: 起重機
Korean: 승강 장치
European Portuguese: guincho
Latin American Spanish: grúa
All related terms of 'hoist'
hoise
→ hoist
Hills Hoist
an Australian brand of rotary clothesline
hoist by your own petard
if someone is hoist by their own petard, their plan to benefit themselves or to harm someone else results instead in benefit to the other person or harm to themselves
hoist with one's own petard
being the victim of one's own schemes
hoist with your own petard hoist by one's own petard
If someone who has planned to harm someone else is hoist with their own petard or hoist by their own petard , their plan in fact results in harm to themselves.
Chinese translation of 'hoist'
hoist
(hɔɪst)
n(c)
(= apparatus) 起重机(機) (qǐzhòngjī) (辆(輛), liàng)
vt
[heavy object]举(舉)起 (jǔqǐ)
[flag, sail]升起 (shēngqǐ)
to hoist o.s. onto a table自己爬到桌子上了 (zìjǐ pádào zhuōzi shang le)
(verb)
Definition
to raise or lift up, esp. by mechanical means
He hoisted himself to a sitting position.
Synonyms
raise
He raised his hand to wave.
lift
Curious shoppers lifted their children to take a closer look at the parade.
erect
Demonstrators have erected barricades in the roads.
elevate
She elevated her bow and arrow.
heave
He heaved Barney to his feet.
upraise
(noun)
Definition
any apparatus or device for lifting things
It takes three nurses and a hoist to get me into this chair.
Synonyms
lift
They took the lift to the fourth floor.
crane
elevator
Markham emerged from the guest elevator into the lobby.
winch
tackle
Additional synonyms
in the sense of elevate
Definition
to lift to a higher place
She elevated her bow and arrow.
Synonyms
raise,
lift,
heighten,
uplift,
hoist,
lift up,
raise up,
hike up,
upraise
in the sense of elevator
Definition
a mechanical hoist
Markham emerged from the guest elevator into the lobby.
Synonyms
lift,
hoist,
paternoster
in the sense of erect
Definition
to raise to an upright position
Demonstrators have erected barricades in the roads.