(v. t.) To raise; to lift; to elevate; esp., to raise or lift to a desired elevation, by means of tackle, as a sail, a flag, a heavy package or weight.
(n.) That by which anything is hoisted; the apparatus for lifting goods.
(n.) The act of hoisting; a lift.
(n.) The perpendicular height of a flag, as opposed to the fly, or horizontal length when flying from a staff.
(n.) The height of a fore-and-aft sail next the mast or stay.
(p. p.) Hoisted.
Example Sentences:
(1) For years a small army of therapists has worked in the shadows to help older people stay in their own homes – fitting stair rails, ordering hoists, measuring ramps and offering support vital to rehabilitation.
(2) Before things get out of hand, the trophy is presented to Steven Gerrard, who hoists it skywards with a loud roar.
(3) In the Russian gallery, for example, the courageous Vadim Zakharov presents a pointed version of the Danaë myth in which an insouciant dictator (of whom it is hard not to think: Putin) sits on a high beam on a saddle, shelling nuts all day while gold coins rain down from a vast shower-head only to be hoisted in buckets by faceless thuggish men in suits.
(4) A large toilet with a changing table and ceiling hoists are the answer to many disabled people’s prayers, however they are a rare sight.
(5) Finally, perhaps with a bit of hindsight, we can see this as JP Morgan being hoisted by its own petard; the complexity of the derivatives it was inventing and selling made them hard to value and rate for risk.
(6) Drogba, his game hoisted for the big occasion, is untouchable.
(7) Blood gutters brightly against his green gown, yet the man doesn't shudder or stagger or sink but trudges towards them on those tree-trunk legs and rummages around, reaches at their feet and cops hold of his head and hoists it high, and strides to his steed, snatches the bridle, steps into the stirrup and swings into the saddle still gripping his head by a handful of hair.
(8) Some rigged up pulley systems to hoist shopping to their windows, where the glass was cracked and fixed with tape.
(9) At which point restraint becomes as powerful as the Seeds' ravenous beer-hall bluster; a ten-minute Stagger Lee is a masterclass in tension and drama, Cave balancing precariously on the crowd barrier with audience members holding him up by the boot-heel as he leans out to sing his tale of a deviant killer directly into the eyes of a hypnotised girl in white hoisted on someone's shoulders.
(10) A few cells are adapted to accommodate hoists, hospital beds, and specialist mattresses.
(11) Down by a goal with less than 15 minutes to play, and struggling just to keep their footing on a frozen field, they might easily have hoisted the white flag.
(12) A mobile calf enclosure was developed which incorporated a hydraulic hoist and sling for the care of calves.
(13) • Pro-Russia demonstrators surrounded government buildings in at least three Ukrainian cities, hoisting Russian flags and chanting against the government in Kiev.
(14) These patient handling tasks were studied using five manual techniques and three hoist-assisted techniques.
(15) At night, if you are quiet, you can hear them whirring from the Hills Hoist.
(16) Eddie Howe Bournemouth manager Considered one of the brightest managerial prospects in English football on the back of his success with Bournemouth, whom he has helped hoist from bottom tier to Premier League over two spells, enduring a trickier period at Burnley in between, and ensuring the Cherries’ top-flight status last term was a fine achievement.
(17) It says something about the difficulties of the old library that a special hoist had to be built to help get nearly a million books out and into the new building "There is one creaky old books lift, but we really feared it wasn't up to the job," Gambles said.
(18) We stand to attention for the Soviet anthem and hoisting of the red flag, and then down we go, into the freezing-cold bunker.
(19) She boldly says she is not in school because the teachers gave them a day off to do marking and hoists 10 litres of water onto her head, holding a second 5-litre jerry can in her hand, before setting off on the 3km walk home.
(20) A Russian flag was hoisted at the site, where previously there had been clashes between pro- and anti-Russian protesters, as well as a sign saying “Crimea is Russia”.
Repeater
Definition:
(n.) One who, or that which, repeats.
(n.) A watch with a striking apparatus which, upon pressure of a spring, will indicate the time, usually in hours and quarters.
(n.) A repeating firearm.
(n.) An instrument for resending a telegraphic message automatically at an intermediate point.
(n.) A person who votes more than once at an election.
(n.) See Circulating decimal, under Decimal.
(n.) A pennant used to indicate that a certain flag in a hoist of signal is duplicated.
Example Sentences:
(1) Clinical surveillance, repeated laboratory tests, conventional radiology, and especially ultrasonography and CT scan all contributed to the preoperative diagnosis.
(2) Nine of 14 patients studied for documented clinical relapse had positive repeat studies.
(3) Comparison of wild type and the mutant parD promoter sequences indicated that three short repeats are likely involved in the negative regulation of this promoter.
(4) Pituitary weight, mitotic index and chromosomes were studied in male rats following a single or repeated dose of estradiol-benzoate for a total period of 210 days.
(5) A chronic cannulation procedure is described which allows for sampling vomeronasal organ (VNO) contents repeatedly in freely moving conscious subjects.
(6) The region containing the injection stop signal (iss) has been cloned and sequenced and found to contain numerous large repeats and inverted repeats which may be part of the iss.
(7) In view of reports of the reduction of telomeric repeats in human malignant tumors, we measured the lengths of telomeric repeats in 55 primary neuroblastomas.
(8) A domain containing a CA repeat, similar to ones found in other late, cAMP-induced Dictyostelium genes, is required for cAMP-induced and developmental expression.
(9) But it will be a subtle difference, because it's already abundantly clear there's no danger of the war being suddenly forgotten, or made to seem irrelevant to our sense of what Europe and the world has to avoid repeating.
(10) An axillo-axillary bypass procedure was performed in a high-risk patient with innominate arterial stenosis who had repeated episodes of transient cerebral ischemia due to decreased blood flow through the right carotid artery and reversal of blood flow through the right vertebral artery.
(11) Intensity thresholds for eliciting eating and drinking were different, and both thresholds decreased with repeated testing.
(12) Our experience indicates that lateral rhinotomy is a safe, repeatable and cosmetically sound procedure that provides and excellent surgical approach to the nasal cavity and sinuses.
(13) In crosses between inverted repeats, a single intrachromatid reciprocal exchange leads to inversion of the sequence between the crossover sites and recovery of both genes involved in the event.
(14) Each species has approximately 500 core histones cluster repeats per haploid genome.
(15) We identified four distinct clinical patterns in the 244 patients with true positive MAI infections: (a) pulmonary nodules ("tuberculomas") indistinguishable from pulmonary neoplasms (78 patients); (b) chronic bronchitis or bronchiectasis with sputum repeatedly positive for MAI or granulomas on biopsy (58 patients, virtually all older white women); (c) cavitary lung disease and scattered pulmonary nodules mimicking M. tuberculosis infection (12 patients); (d) diffuse pulmonary infiltrations in immunocompromised hosts, primarily patients with AIDS (96 patients).
(16) Examinations, begun at day 150 of gestation in 33 monkeys and between days 32 and 58 in four other animals, were repeated at intervals of one to seven days.
(17) During that time they have repeatedly demonstrated the likely existence of signalling molecules or morphogens that control the pattern of development in the embryo.
(18) Male guinea pigs received either a single dose of As2O3 10 mg.kg-1 s.c. or repeated doses of 2.5 mg.kg-1 bis in die (b.i.d.)
(19) Plasmids containing the inverted repeat alone bound ER, though less efficiently than did plasmids containing the entire sequence.
(20) These studies indicate that at each site of induction during feather morphogenesis, a general pattern is repeated in which an epithelial structure linked by L-CAM is confronted with periodically propagating condensations of cells linked by N-CAM.