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Elevator vs Hoist - What's the difference?

elevator | hoist |

As nouns the difference between elevator and hoist

is that elevator is permanent construction with a built-in platform that is lifted vertically while hoist is a hoisting device, such as pulley or crane.

As a verb hoist is

to raise; to lift; to elevate; especially, to raise or lift to a desired elevation, by means of tackle or pulley, as a sail, a flag, a heavy package or weight.

elevator

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (US) Permanent construction with a built-in platform that is lifted vertically.
  • A silo used for storing wheat, corn or other grain (grain elevator )
  • (aeronautics) A control surface of an aircraft responsible for controling the pitching motion of the machine.
  • Trademark for a type of shoe having an insert lift to make the wearer appear taller.
  • A dental instrument used to pry up ("elevate") teeth in difficult extractions, or depressed portions of bone.
  • (anatomy) Any muscle that serves to raise a part of the body, such as the leg or the eye.

    • Synonyms

    * (permanent construction) lift (British English)

    Derived terms

    * elevon * elevator music

    See also

    (wikipedia elevator)

    hoist

    English

    Verb

  • To raise; to lift; to elevate; especially, to raise or lift to a desired elevation, by means of tackle or pulley, as a sail, a flag, a heavy package or weight.
  • * Alexander Pope
    • They land my goods, and hoist my flying sails.
  • * South
    • hoisting him into his father's throne
  • * 1719:
    • ...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.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=October 23 , author=Tom Fordyce , title=2011 Rugby World Cup final: New Zealand 8-7 France , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=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.}}
  • (historical) To lift someone up to be flogged.
  • To be lifted up.
  • (comptheory) To extract (code) from a loop construct as part of optimization.

    • 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".

    Quotations

    * They land my goods, and hoist my flying sails . — * Hoisting him into his father’s throne . —

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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.