Meaning of aerial lift | Babel Free

Definitions

1. 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.
2. A device for raising people and/or equipment by means of a bucket or platform attached to a boom or expanding scissors-style supports.
3. An instance of soaring upward.

Examples

“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.”

“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.”

“Any piece of equipment that raises people presents bodily hazards related to falling in the event of upset or collapse. However, this section's “Case Occurrence” is a good example of a powerline-contact hazard specific to an aerial lift, and shows the lift boom as a dormant hazard.”

“Aerial lifts generally include scissor lifts and boom lifts.”

“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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