Foisted vs Hoisted - What's the difference?
foisted | hoisted |
(foist)
To introduce or insert surreptitiously or without warrant.
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To force another to accept especially by stealth or deceit.
To pass off as genuine or worthy.
* (rfdate) Jonathan Spivak — foist costly and valueless products on the public
A thief or pickpocket.
* 1977 , Gãmini Salgãdo, The Elizabethan Underworld , Folio Society 2006, p. 54:
(obsolete) A light and fast-sailing ship.
(hoist)
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
* South
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* 1883 , (Robert Louis Stevenson), (Treasure Island)
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(historical) To lift someone up to be flogged.
To be lifted up.
(comptheory) To extract (code) from a loop construct as part of optimization.
A hoisting device, such as pulley or crane.
The act of hoisting; a lift.
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.
As verbs the difference between foisted and hoisted
is that foisted is (foist) while hoisted is (hoist).foisted
English
Verb
(head)foist
English
Etymology 1
Probably from obsolete (etyl) .Verb
(en verb)The Gift of Language
- attempts to foist alleged grammatical “correctness” on native speakers of an “incorrect” dialect are nothing but the unacknowledged and oppressive exercise of social control
Synonyms
* fob off * pass off * pawn off * palm offNoun
(en noun)- The foist had lately arrived form the country and was known to be doing a thriving trade in and around Westminster Hall where many country folk and others came to see lawyers.
Etymology 2
(etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- (Beaumont and Fletcher)
hoisted
English
Verb
(head)hoist
English
Verb
- They land my goods, and hoist my flying sails.
- hoisting him into his father's throne
- ...but this last was so heavy, I could not hoist it up to get it over the ship's side.
- 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.
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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)- Give me a hoist over that wall.