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Definition of 'Lift'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (v.t.) lift
to move or bring (something) upward from the ground or other support to a higher position; hoist.

2.  lift
to raise or direct upward:
to lift one's head.

3.  lift
to remove or rescind by an official act, as a ban, curfew, or tax.

4.  lift
to stop or put an end to (a boycott, blockade, etc.).

5.  lift
to hold up or display on high.

6.  lift
to raise in rank, condition, estimation, etc.; elevate or exalt.

7.  lift
to make audible or louder, as the voice or something voiced.

8.  lift
Informal. to plagiarize.

9.  lift
Informal. to steal.

10.  lift
to remove (plants and tubers) from the ground, as after harvest or for transplanting.

11.  lift
to pay off (a mortgage, promissory note, etc.).

12. (v.i.) lift
to go up; yield to upward pressure:
The balloon lifted.

13.  lift
to pull or strain upward in the effort to raise something.

14.  lift
to move upward or rise; rise and disperse, as clouds or fog.

15.  lift
(of rain) to stop temporarily.

16.  lift
to rise to view above the horizon when approached, as land seen from the sea.

17. (n.) lift
the act of lifting, raising, or rising.

18.  lift
the distance that anything rises or is raised.

19.  lift
a lifting or raising force.

20.  lift
the weight, load, or quantity lifted.

21.  lift
an act or instance of helping to climb.

22.  lift
a ride in a vehicle, esp. one given to a pedestrian.

23.  lift
a feeling of exaltation or uplift.

24.  lift
assistance or aid.

25.  lift
a device or apparatus for lifting.

26.  lift
a movement in which a dancer, skater, etc., lifts up a partner.

27.  lift
Brit.

28.  lift
Informal. a theft.

29.  lift
a rise or elevation of ground.

30.  lift
the component of force exerted by air on an airfoil in a direction perpendicular to the forward motion and opposite to the pull of gravity.

31.  lift
the bottom layer on the heel of a boot or shoe.

Definition of 'Lift'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) lift
the act of giving temporary assistance

2. (noun) aerodynamic lift, lift
the component of the aerodynamic forces acting on an airfoil that opposes gravity

3. (noun) elevation, lift, raising
the event of something being raised upward
"an elevation of the temperature in the afternoon"; "a raising of the land resulting from volcanic activity"

4. (noun) lift, rise
a wave that lifts the surface of the water or ground

5. (noun) ski tow, ski lift, lift
a powered conveyance that carries skiers up a hill

6. (noun) lift
a device worn in a shoe or boot to make the wearer look taller or to correct a shortened leg

7. (noun) lift
one of the layers forming the heel of a shoe or boot

8. (noun) elevator, lift
lifting device consisting of a platform or cage that is raised and lowered mechanically in a vertical shaft in order to move people from one floor to another in a building

9. (noun) face lift, facelift, lift, face lifting, cosmetic surgery, rhytidectomy, rhytidoplasty, nip and tuck
plastic surgery to remove wrinkles and other signs of aging from your face; an incision is made near the hair line and skin is pulled back and excess tissue is excised
"some actresses have more than one face lift"

10. (noun) airlift, lift
transportation of people or goods by air (especially when other means of access are unavailable)

11. (noun) lift
a ride in a car
"he gave me a lift home"

12. (verb) lift, raise, heave
the act of raising something
"he responded with a lift of his eyebrow"; "fireman learn several different raises for getting ladders up"

13. (verb) raise, lift, elevate, get up, bring up
raise from a lower to a higher position
"Raise your hands"; "Lift a load"

14. (verb) lift
take hold of something and move it to a different location
"lift the box onto the table"

15. (verb) lift, raise
move upwards
"lift one's eyes"

16. (verb) rise, lift, arise, move up, go up, come up, uprise
move upward
"The fog lifted"; "The smoke arose from the forest fire"; "The mist uprose from the meadows"

17. (verb) lift
make audible
"He lifted a war whoop"

18. (verb) revoke, annul, lift, countermand, reverse, repeal, overturn, rescind, vacate
cancel officially
"He revoked the ban on smoking"; "lift an embargo"; "vacate a death sentence"

19. (verb) pilfer, cabbage, purloin, pinch, abstract, snarf, swipe, hook, sneak, filch, nobble, lift
make off with belongings of others

20. (verb) hoist, lift, wind
raise or haul up with or as if with mechanical help
"hoist the bicycle onto the roof of the car"

21. (verb) raise, lift
invigorate or heighten
"lift my spirits"; "lift his ego"

22. (verb) lift, raise, elevate
raise in rank or condition
"The new law lifted many people from poverty"

23. (verb) lift
take off or away by decreasing
"lift the pressure"

24. (verb) rise, lift, rear
rise up
"The building rose before them"

25. (verb) lift
pay off (a mortgage)

26. (verb) plagiarize, plagiarise, lift
take without referencing from someone else's writing or speech; of intellectual property

27. (verb) rustle, lift
take illegally
"rustle cattle"

28. (verb) airlift, lift
fly people or goods to or from places not accessible by other means
"Food is airlifted into Bosnia"

29. (verb) lift
take (root crops) out of the ground
"lift potatoes"

30. (verb) lift
call to stop the hunt or to retire, as of hunting dogs

31. (verb) lift
rise upward, as from pressure or moisture
"The floor is lifting slowly"

32. (verb) lift, raise
put an end to
"lift a ban"; "raise a siege"

33. (verb) lift
remove (hair) by scalping

34. (verb) lift
remove from a seedbed or from a nursery
"lift the tulip bulbs"

35. (verb) lift
remove from a surface
"the detective carefully lifted some fingerprints from the table"

36. (verb) face-lift, lift
perform cosmetic surgery on someone's face

Definition of 'Lift'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. (verb) lift
to raise to a higher position
Can you help me lift the table?; Her father lifted her over the fence.

2.  lift
(of a rule, ban, etc.) to cancel
to lift the ban on the export of meat

3.  lift
to improve or make brighter or happier
a strategy to help lift the poor out of poverty; to lift sb's spirits; A lighter color would help to lift the room a little.

4.  lift
(of bad weather) to disappear
The fog began to lift.

5.  lift
not lift a finger
to not do anything to help
We were working hard, but she didn't lift a finger all day.

6. (noun) lift
a movement to a higher position
a lift of the eyebrows

7.  lift
a ride in a car
I can give you a lift home.

8.  lift
give sb a lift
elevator
Two people were in the lift.

Definition of 'Lift'

Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) Lift
the sky; the atmosphere; the firmament

2. (noun) Lift
act of lifting; also, that which is lifted

3. (noun) Lift
the space or distance through which anything is lifted; as, a long lift

4. (noun) Lift
help; assistance, as by lifting; as, to give one a lift in a wagon

5. (noun) Lift
that by means of which a person or thing lifts or is lifted

6. (noun) Lift
a hoisting machine; an elevator; a dumb waiter

7. (noun) Lift
a handle

8. (noun) Lift
an exercising machine

9. (noun) Lift
a rise; a degree of elevation; as, the lift of a lock in canals

10. (noun) Lift
a lift gate. See Lift gate, below

11. (noun) Lift
a rope leading from the masthead to the extremity of a yard below; -- used for raising or supporting the end of the yard

12. (noun) Lift
one of the steps of a cone pulley

13. (noun) Lift
a layer of leather in the heel

14. (noun) Lift
that portion of the vibration of a balance during which the impulse is given

15. (verb) Lift
to move in a direction opposite to that of gravitation; to raise; to elevate; to bring up from a lower place to a higher; to upheave; sometimes implying a continued support or holding in the higher place; -- said of material things; as, to lift the foot or the hand; to lift a chair or a burden

16. (verb) Lift
to raise, elevate, exalt, improve, in rank, condition, estimation, character, etc.; -- often with up

17. (verb) Lift
to bear; to support

18. (verb) Lift
to collect, as moneys due; to raise

19. (verb) Lift
to steal; to carry off by theft (esp. cattle); as, to lift a drove of cattle

20. (verb) Lift
to try to raise something; to exert the strength for raising or bearing

21. (verb) Lift
to rise; to become or appear raised or elevated; as, the fog lifts; the land lifts to a ship approaching it

22. (verb) Lift
to live by theft

Translation of 'Lift'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: to raise or bring to a higher position The box was so heavy I couldn't lift it.
Afrikaans: ophef	Arabic: يَرْفَع	Bulgarian: вдигам
Brazilian: levantar	Czech: zvednout	German: heben
Danish: hæve; løfte	Greek: σηκώνω	Spanish: levantar, alzar
Estonian: tõstma	Farsi: برداشتن	Finnish: nostaa
French: soulever	Hebrew: לְהָרִים	Hindi: उठाना
Croatian: podići	Hungarian: (fel)emel	Indonesian: mengangkat
Icelandic: lyfta	Italian: alzare, sollevare	Japanese: 持ち上げる
Korean: 들어 올리다	Lithuanian: (pa)kelti	Latvian: []celt
Malay: angkat	Dutch: tillen	Norwegian: løfte, heve
Polish: podnieść	Persian: برداشتن	Pashto: پورته كول
Portuguese: levantar	Romanian: a ridica	Russian: поднимать
Slovak: zdvihnúť	Slovenian: dvigniti	Serbian: podići
Swedish: lyfta	Thai: ยก	Turkish: kaldırmak
Taiwanese: 提起，抬起，舉起	Ukrainian: піднімати	Urdu: اوپر اٹھانا
Vietnamese: nâng lên	Chinese: 提起，抬起，举起
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