Difference between Hoist and Wind

What is the difference between Hoist and Wind?

Hoist as a verb is to raise; to lift; to elevate; especially, to raise or lift to a desired elevation, by means of tackle or pulley, as a sail, a flag, a heavy package or weight. while Wind as a verb is to blow air through a wind instrument or horn to make a sound.

Hoist

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To raise; to lift; to elevate; especially, to raise or lift to a desired elevation, by means of tackle or pulley, as a sail, a flag, a heavy package or weight. To lift someone up to be flogged. To be lifted up.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A hoisting device, such as pulley or crane. The perpendicular height of a flag, as opposed to the fly, or horizontal length, when flying from a staff. The vertical edge of a flag which is next to the staff. The height of a fore-and-aft sail, next the mast or stay.

Wind

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To blow air through a wind instrument or horn to make a sound.To cause (someone) to become breathless, often by a blow to the abdomen.To exhaust oneself to the point of being short of breath.To turn coils of (a cord or something similar) around something.To tighten the spring of the clockwork mechanism such as that of a clock.To travel, or to cause something to travel, in a way that is not straight.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: Real or perceived movement of atmospheric air usually caused by convection or differences in air pressure.The ability to exert oneself without feeling short of breath.One of the five basic elements (see Wikipedia article on the Classical elements).Flatus.

Example sentence: Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great.

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