Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A small industrial vehicle with a power-operated pronged platform that can be raised and lowered for insertion under a load to be lifted and moved.
- transitive verb To move or stack by use of a vehicle with a power-operated pronged platform.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A small
industrial vehicle with apower -operated fork -like pronged platform that can beraised andlowered forinsertion under aload , often onpallets , to belifted andmoved - verb to
move orstack using such a vehicle
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a small industrial vehicle with a power operated forked platform in front that can be inserted under loads to lift and move them
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Examples
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Remember when I first went to White's they didn't have what you call a forklift, but today they've got these big lifts that can do as much work in fifteen minutes as a half dozen men can do all day.
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The forklift is the device of choice for loading pallets from containers into the hatches of a cruise ship.
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* Note the guy driving the forklift is my dad's friend Andy.
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* Note the guy driving the forklift is my dad's friend Andy.
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* Note the guy driving the forklift is my dad's friend Andy.
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Im 100% for the use of marijuana (or heroin for that matter) for strictly medical purposes, the benefits of both are well documented but until people can learn to act responsibly and use the drugs we already have responsibly and not turn up for work boozed or stoned (a stoned man driving a forklift is a truely terrifying thing), then I think shings should stay as they are.
TPN :: GDay World 2009
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Transpower chief executive Patrick Strange said the driver of the forklift was a "lucky" man.
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Im 100\% for the use of marijuana (or heroin for that matter) for strictly medical purposes, the benefits of both are well documented but until people can learn to act responsibly and use the drugs we already have responsibly and not turn up for work boozed or stoned (a stoned man driving a forklift is a truely terrifying thing), then I think shings should stay as they are.
TPN :: GDay World 2009
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Yeah, different segments are affected differently by the situation forklift, which is a piece of that is really seeing the biggest impact commercial, industrial it's more a weather in more weather impacted so you don't see quite this affect there at least so far.
pfblogs.org: The Ad-Free Personal Finance Blogs Aggregator 2009
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As you guide Ryo on his quest for vengeance, you must defeat foes in martial-arts combat, solve numerous logical puzzles, interact with dozens of other characters and play a variety of mini-games (such as forklift racing).
Cyberscope 2008
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