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Wiktionary

  1. liftingnoun

    Plastic surgery for tightening facial tissues and improving the facial appearance; facelift.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Lifting

    of Lift

  2. Liftingadjective

    used in, or for, or by, lifting

U.S. National Library of Medicine

  1. Lifting

    Moving or bringing something from a lower level to a higher one. The concept encompasses biomechanic stresses resulting from work done in transferring objects from one plane to another as well as the effects of varying techniques of patient handling and transfer.

Dictionary of Nautical Terms

  1. lifting

    The rising of fog or haze from the surface of the water.

Etymology and Origins

  1. Lifting

    This technical term in the printing trade, because type is lifted out of the columns prior to distribution, or, as may happen in a newspaper, to be held over until the next issue for want of space, has come to be applied by journalists to literary theft. Facts, anecdotes, or jokes stolen from a contribution submitted to an editor on approval are said to have been “lifted.” One newspaper, too, often “lifts” matter from another without acknowledgment.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of lifting in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of lifting in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of lifting in a Sentence

  1. Olivier Jakob:

    We read any lifting of the US export ban as a significant structural change...Lifting the ban could help to clear US crude oil stocks.

  2. Zig Ziglar:

    Life is too short to spend your precious time trying to convince a person who wants to live in gloom and doom otherwise. Give lifting that person your best shot, but don't hang around long enough for his or her bad attitude to pull you down. Instead, surround yourself with optimistic people.

  3. John Andrew Holmes:

    There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.

  4. Elizabeth Harrison:

    Those who are lifting the world upward and onward are those who encourage more than criticize.

  5. William Dudley:

    I believe that the risks of lifting the federal funds rate off of the zero lower bound a bit early are higher than the risks of lifting off a bit late, this argues for a more inertial approach to policy.

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