hoist

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. fiil 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).

   “For tis the ſport to haue the enginer / Hoiſt with his ovvne petar, an't ſhall goe hard / But I vvill delue one yard belovve their mines, / And blovve them at the Moone: […]”

2. fiil To lift a trophy or similar prize into the air in celebration of a victory.

   “And when skipper Richie McCaw hoisted the Webb Ellis Trophy high into the night, a quarter of a century of hurt was blown away in an explosion of fireworks and cheering.”

3. fiil To lift someone up to be flogged.

   “Again Pilatus answered them, What shall I do to the Jew’s king? They again cried out and said, Hoist him! Then said Pilatus, What evil did he? They so much the more cried, Hoist him!”

4. fiil To be lifted up.
5. fiil To extract (code) from a loop construct as part of optimization.
6. fiil To steal.

   “When you’ve reached neutral territory, when you’ve stashed the loot hoisted from the warlord’s mansion – well, he didn't have much use for it any more, did he?”

7. fiil To rob.

   “Why, it was nothing to travel about the country with fifty grand worth of ice on me. Suppose I hadn’t packed a roscoe—hell, I’d of been hoisted once a week!”

8. isim Any member of certain classes of devices that hoist things.
9. isim The act of hoisting; a lift.

   “Give me a hoist over that wall.”

10. isim The triangular vertical position of a flag, as opposed to the flying state, or triangular vertical position of a sail, when flying from a mast.
11. isim The position of a flag (on a mast) or of a sail on a ship when lifted up to its highest level.
12. isim The position of a main fore-and-aft topsail on a ship and fore fore-and-aft topsail on a ship.