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Lift   /lɪft/   Listen
Lift

noun
1.
The act of giving temporary assistance.
2.
The component of the aerodynamic forces acting on an airfoil that opposes gravity.  Synonym: aerodynamic lift.
3.
The event of something being raised upward.  Synonyms: elevation, raising.  "A raising of the land resulting from volcanic activity"
4.
A wave that lifts the surface of the water or ground.  Synonym: rise.
5.
A powered conveyance that carries skiers up a hill.  Synonyms: ski lift, ski tow.
6.
A device worn in a shoe or boot to make the wearer look taller or to correct a shortened leg.
7.
One of the layers forming the heel of a shoe or boot.
8.
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.  Synonym: elevator.
9.
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.  Synonyms: cosmetic surgery, face lift, face lifting, facelift, nip and tuck, rhytidectomy, rhytidoplasty.
10.
Transportation of people or goods by air (especially when other means of access are unavailable).  Synonym: airlift.
11.
A ride in a car.
12.
The act of raising something.  Synonyms: heave, raise.  "Fireman learn several different raises for getting ladders up"
verb
(past & past part. lifted; pres. part. lifting)
1.
Raise from a lower to a higher position.  Synonyms: bring up, elevate, get up, raise.  "Lift a load"
2.
Take hold of something and move it to a different location.
3.
Move upwards.  Synonym: raise.
4.
Move upward.  Synonyms: arise, come up, go up, move up, rise, uprise.  "The smoke arose from the forest fire" , "The mist uprose from the meadows"
5.
Make audible.
6.
Cancel officially.  Synonyms: annul, countermand, overturn, repeal, rescind, reverse, revoke, vacate.  "Lift an embargo" , "Vacate a death sentence"
7.
Make off with belongings of others.  Synonyms: abstract, cabbage, filch, hook, nobble, pilfer, pinch, purloin, snarf, sneak, swipe.
8.
Raise or haul up with or as if with mechanical help.  Synonyms: hoist, wind.
9.
Invigorate or heighten.  Synonym: raise.  "Lift his ego"
10.
Raise in rank or condition.  Synonyms: elevate, raise.
11.
Take off or away by decreasing.
12.
Rise up.  Synonyms: rear, rise.
13.
Pay off (a mortgage).
14.
Take without referencing from someone else's writing or speech; of intellectual property.  Synonyms: plagiarise, plagiarize.
15.
Take illegally.  Synonym: rustle.
16.
Fly people or goods to or from places not accessible by other means.  Synonym: airlift.
17.
Take (root crops) out of the ground.
18.
Call to stop the hunt or to retire, as of hunting dogs.
19.
Rise upward, as from pressure or moisture.
20.
Put an end to.  Synonym: raise.  "Raise a siege"
21.
Remove (hair) by scalping.
22.
Remove from a seedbed or from a nursery.
23.
Remove from a surface.
24.
Perform cosmetic surgery on someone's face.  Synonym: face-lift.



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"Lift" Quotes from Famous Books



... vow—I said I would never go roving any more. So I lived by the Ghaut, very close to my own people, and I watched over them year after year; and they loved me so much that they threw marigold wreaths at my head whenever they saw it lift. Yes, and my Fate has been very kind to me, and the river is good enough to respect my poor and ...
— The Second Jungle Book • Rudyard Kipling
... of respect for past hospitalities, and because of his age, would have nothing to do. But Speusippus and the rest of his friends assisted and encouraged him, bidding him deliver Sicily, which with lift-up hands implored his help, and with open arms was ready to receive him. For when Plato was staying at Syracuse, Speusippus, being oftener than he in company with the citizens, had more thoroughly made out how they were inclined; and though ...
— Plutarch's Lives • A.H. Clough
... necessity of entering the palace by a lower floor. This communication can be suspended instantaneously by stopping the electric generating power which acts from within the palace, and communicates subterraneously with the "Lift" Tower. ...
— Another World - Fragments from the Star City of Montalluyah • Benjamin Lumley (AKA Hermes)
... moral instinct of human nature, and look not merely to the letter of a particular enactment, but also to the spirit and general purpose of law itself, which is justice between man and man. The wicked Judge, looking only to the power which raised him to his place, and may lift him higher still,—not to that other Hand which is over all,—or consulting his own meanness of nature, selects the wicked laws, and makes a wicked application thereof. Thus in America, under plea of serving the people, he can work ...
— The Trial of Theodore Parker • Theodore Parker
... moment on the outside. The spire points upward and teaches its lesson of aspiration. "Lift up your hearts," it seems to say, and holds up the Cross as that by which alone we are to be "exalted unto everlasting life." Whenever we {19} lift up our eyes to it, it ought to repeat for us that lesson—rebuke downward thoughts and desires, and point ...
— The Worship of the Church - and The Beauty of Holiness • Jacob A. Regester


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