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aerial lifts

aerial lifts is the plural of aerial lift.

Meaning of aerial lift

Noun

aerial lift (plural aerial lifts)

  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.
    • Riding an aerial lift is like riding in a small subway car.2003, Beth Gruber, Snowboarding for Fun!, →ISBN
  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.
    • 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.1963, The American City - Volume 78, Part 2, page 80
  3. An instance of soaring upward.
    • With Curtis Clark he gives the aerial lift buoyant jazz phrasing is about.1996, Coda Magazine - Issues 265-270, page 24

Questions about aerial lifts

What is aerial lifts the plural of?
Aerial lifts is the plural of aerial lift.

Words near aerial lifts in the dictionary

  1. aerial device
  2. aerial devices
  3. aerial ladder
  4. aerial ladders
  5. aerial lift
  6. aerial lifts
  7. aerial park
  8. aerial parks
  9. aerial perspective
  10. aerial photo
  11. aerial photograph

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