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A hook imagined to be suspended in midair. / An overhead winch. / A helicopter that lifts and transports heavy objects suspended by a heavy cable.

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skyhook

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Source Word

skyhook

IPA(Pronunciation)

/ˈskaɪˌhʊk/

Noun

slang

Japanese Meaning

空中に吊るされたと想定されるフック / 上部や天井に設置されたウインチ / 重い物体を懸垂ケーブルで吊り上げ、運搬するためのヘリコプター

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The artist hung a delicate skyhook in the gallery to make the sculpture appear to float.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

その芸術家は、彫刻を宙に浮かんでいるように見せるために、ギャラリーに繊細な、空中に浮かぶ想像上のフックを吊るした。

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A hook imagined to be suspended in midair.

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An overhead winch.

To each bolt attach a short length of chain and then run the individual chains to another large one that is run up to the skyhook, which is nothing more than a ratchet cable winch held by an overhead rafter.

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A helicopter that lifts and transports heavy objects suspended by a heavy cable.

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(aerospace) A proposed momentum-exchange tether for launching payloads into low Earth orbit by hooking them to the end of a cable that reaches down from an orbiting station into the upper atmosphere.

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