Such application is not quite correct, since ``plane'' indicates a flat surface, and the lifting surfaces are always cambered. Propeller--See ``Air-Screw.''
Propeller, Tractor--An air-screw mounted in front of the main lifting surface. Propeller, Pusher--An air-screw mounted behind the main lifting surface. Pusher--An aeroplane of which the propeller is mounted behind the main lifting surface. Pylon--Any V-shaped construction from the point of which wires are taken. Power--Rate of working. Power, Horse--One horse-power represents a force sufficient to raise 33,000 lbs. 1 foot in a minute.英文原著 · 《The Aeroplane Speaks》
The hall was almost dark, and the night concierge came from his little room on the right of the door to turn on the light and accompany Artois to the lift. "There is a lady waiting in your room, Signore," he said. Artois, who was walking quickly towards the lift, stopped. He looked at Gaspare. "A lady!" he said. "Shall I go back to the Piazza, Signore?"
He half turned towards the swing door. "Wait a minute. Come up-stairs first and see the Signora."
The lift ascended.英文原著 · 《A Spirit in Prison》
"What has damped our noble courage this morning?" he exclaimed. "We seem to be met at a funeral, where the chief mourners must not speak above their breath, while the mutes and the saulies (looking to the lower end of the table) are carousing below. Ellieslaw, when will you LIFT? [To LIFT, meaning to lift the coffin, is the common expression for commencing a funeral.] where sleeps your spirit, man? and what has quelled the high hope of the Knight of Langley-dale?"英文原著 · 《The Black Dwarf》
He lifted a stane sax feet in height, He lifted it up till his right knee, And fifty yards and mair I'm sure, I wite he made the stane to flee.英文原著 · 《A Bundle of Ballads》
There was a bit of unfinished sewing there, and it fell out as he lifted the cover. It was a baby's linen shirt. Jim let it lie, and then lifted from its receptacle a silver thimble. He put it in his vest-pocket.英文原著 · 《A Mountain Woman》
At Mount Street it just went into the lift; that was a stroke of luck; and the lift-man and I between us carried it into my flat. It seemed a featherweight to me now. I felt a Samson in the exaltation of that hour. And I will not say what my first act was when I found myself alone with my white elephant in the middle of the room; enough that the siphon was still doing its work when the glass slipped through my fingers to the floor.英文原著 · 《A Thief in the Night》
Are you trying to lift me? You are. You're trying to lift me. Oh!美剧 · 《Modern Family》
The idea is that it soars on the lift over your body, like a seagull soaring on a cliff. The idea is that it soars on the lift over your body, like a seagull soaring on a cliff.演讲 · 《A flight on solar wings ~ Paul MacCready》
That also lifts the burden on the poor and the working class. that also lifts the burden on the poor and the working class.演讲 · 《The world in 2200 ~ Pete Alcorn》