aerial lift

Definitions

1. 1

   A transport system that moves cabins, cars, gondolas or open chairs above the ground by…

   A transport system that moves cabins, cars, gondolas or open chairs above the ground by means of one or more cables strung between supporting towers.

   • Riding an aerial lift is like riding in a small subway car.
   • Each morning, an aerial lift mechanic would ride on top of the first tramcar up the mountain, stopping at each tower to chip ice off the cable wheels.
   • 'It's a continuously circulating bicable gondola-style aerial lift,' Sahay said, reading from the notes he'd made on his laptop.
2. 2

   A device for raising people and/or equipment by means of a bucket or platform attached to…

   A device for raising people and/or equipment by means of a bucket or platform attached to a boom or expanding scissors-style supports.

   • The city's park department moved its new aerial lift into the auditorium through the stage entrance, thus providing the painter with push-button control of a safe, convenient painting platform.
   • Aerial lifts generally include scissor lifts and boom lifts.
3. 3

   An instance of soaring upward.

   • With Curtis Clark he gives the aerial lift buoyant jazz phrasing is about.
   • Then came one which I have always classed among the most exquisite of her productions, with a singular felicity of phrase and an aerial lift that bears the ear upward with the bee it traces:— The nearest dream recedes unrealized.
   • Milton's blank verse is musical in polyphonic Renaissance style; Wordsworth deliberately takes the aerial lift out of the medium, and instead settles its rhythm upon walking.

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