Dictionary entry

Hoist

Pronunciation: /hɔɪst/

Pronunciation

/hɔɪst/

Myanmar Meaning

(vt) ရွက်လွင့်သည်။ အလံလွှင့်သည်။

Definition

hoist /hↄÇst/ v ေျမႇာက္သည္။ ပင့္သည္။ ျမႇင့္သည္။ တင္သည္။ hoist a flag / the sails ❍ hoisting crates onto a ship ❍ She hoisted the boy/ herself up onto the wall. She hoisted her skirt to avoid getting it wet. ❍ ( fig ) He managed to hoist his earnings to £100,000 last year. n ဝန္ခ်ီစက္။ ဝန္တင္စက္။ ❏ (be) hoist/ hoisted by/ with one's own petard ( Brit ) [ IDM ] ကိုယ့္႐ႉးကိုယ္ပတ္သည္။ ကိုယ့္အတတ္ကိုယ္စူးသည္။

Examples

  1. Tim hoisted the boy onto his shoulders.
  2. The bridge was hoisted into place by crane.
  3. The publicity hoisted ticket sales to 12
  4. 500 in two days.