aerial lift

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.

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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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