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LIFTING DEVICE

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Dictionary entry overview: What does lifting device mean?

• LIFTING DEVICE (noun)
The noun LIFTING DEVICE has 1 sense:

1. a device for lifting heavy loads

Familiarity information: LIFTING DEVICE used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• LIFTING DEVICE (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

A device for lifting heavy loads

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("lifting device" is a kind of...):

device (an instrumentality invented for a particular purpose)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "lifting device"):

crane (lifts and moves heavy objects; lifting tackle is suspended from a pivoted boom that rotates around a vertical axis)

elevator; lift (lifting device consisting of a platform or cage that is raised and lowered mechanically in a vertical shaft in order to move people from one floor to another in a building)

hoist (lifting device for raising heavy or cumbersome objects)

winch; windlass (lifting device consisting of a horizontal cylinder turned by a crank on which a cable or rope winds)

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