 7 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
lift
noun
1: the act of giving temporary assistance
2: the component of the aerodynamic forces acting on an airfoil
that opposes gravity [syn: {aerodynamic lift}]
3: the event of something being raised upward; "an elevation of
the temperature in the afternoon"; "a raising of the land
resulting from volcanic activity" [syn: {elevation}, {raising}]
4: a wave that lifts the surface of the water or ground [syn: {rise}]
5: a powered conveyance that carries skiers up a hill [syn: {ski
tow}, {ski lift}]
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 [syn: {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; "some
actresses have more than one face lift" [syn: {face lift},
{facelift}, {face lifting}, {cosmetic surgery}, {rhytidectomy},
{rhytidoplasty}, {nip and tuck}]
10: transportation of people or goods by air (especially when
other means of access are unavailable) [syn: {airlift}]
11: a ride in a car; "he gave me a lift home"
12: the act of raising something; "he responded with a lift of
his eyebrow"; "fireman learn several different raises for
getting ladders up" [syn: {raise}, {heave}]
verb
1: raise from a lower to a higher position; "Raise your hands";
"Lift a load" [syn: {raise}, {elevate}, {get up}, {bring
up}] [ant: {lower}]
2: take hold of something and move it to a different location;
"lift the box onto the table"
3: move upwards; "lift one's eyes" [syn: {raise}]
4: move upward; "The fog lifted"; "The smoke arose from the
forest fire"; "The mist uprose from the meadows" [syn: {rise},
{arise}, {move up}, {go up}, {come up}, {uprise}] [ant: {descend}]
5: make audible; "He lifted a war whoop"
6: annul by recalling or rescinding; "He revoked the ban on
smoking"; "lift an embargo"; "vacate a death sentence"
[syn: {revoke}, {annul}, {countermand}, {reverse}, {repeal},
{overturn}, {rescind}, {vacate}]
7: make off with belongings of others [syn: {pilfer}, {cabbage},
{purloin}, {pinch}, {abstract}, {snarf}, {swipe}, {hook},
{sneak}, {filch}, {nobble}]
8: raise or haul up with or as if with mechanical help; "hoist
the bicycle onto the roof of the car" [syn: {hoist}, {wind}]
9: invigorate or heighten; "lift my spirits"; "lift his ego"
[syn: {raise}]
10: raise in rank or condition; "The new law lifted many people
from poverty" [syn: {raise}, {elevate}]
11: take off or away by decreasing; "lift the pressure"
12: rise up; "The building rose before them" [syn: {rise}, {rear}]
13: pay off (a mortgage)
14: take without referencing from someone else's writing or
speech; of intellectual property [syn: {plagiarize}, {plagiarise}]
15: take illegally; "rustle cattle" [syn: {rustle}]
16: fly people or goods to or from places not accessible by
other means; "Food is airlifted into Bosnia" [syn: {airlift}]
17: take (root crops) out of the ground; "lift potatoes"
18: call to stop the hunt or to retire, as of hunting dogs
19: rise upward, as from pressure or moisture; "The floor is
lifting slowly"
20: put an end to; "lift a ban"; "raise a siege" [syn: {raise}]
21: remove (hair) by scalping
22: remove from a seedbed or from a nursery; "lift the tulip
bulbs"
23: remove from a surface; "the detective carefully lifted some
fingerprints from the table"
24: perform cosmetic surgery on someone's face [syn: {face-lift}]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Lift \Lift\ (l[i^]ft), noun [AS. lyft air. See {Loft}.]
The sky; the atmosphere; the firmament. [Obs. or Scot.]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Lift \Lift\ (l[i^]ft), verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Lifted}; p. pr. &
vb. n. {Lifting}.] [Icel. lypta, fr. lopt air; akin to Sw.
lyfta to lift, Dan. l["o]fte, G. l["u]ften; -- prop., to
raise into the air. See {Loft}, and cf. 1st {Lift}.]
1. 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.
2. To raise, elevate, exalt, improve, in rank, condition,
estimation, character, etc.; -- often with up.
The Roman virtues lift up mortal man. --Addison.
Lest, being lifted up with pride. --1 Tim. iii.
6.
3. To bear; to support. [Obs.] --Spenser.
4. To collect, as moneys due; to raise.
5. [Perh. a different word, and akin to Goth. hliftus thief,
hlifan to steal, L. clepere, Gr. kle'ptein. Cf.
{Shoplifter}.] To steal; to carry off by theft (esp.
cattle); as, to lift a drove of cattle.
Note: In old writers, lift is sometimes used for lifted.
He ne'er lift up his hand but conquered. --Shak.
{To lift up}, to raise or elevate; in the Scriptures,
specifically, to elevate upon the cross. --John viii. 28.
{To lift up the eyes}. To look up; to raise the eyes, as in
prayer. --Ps. cxxi. 1.
{To lift up the feet}, to come speedily to one's relief.
--Ps. lxxiv. 3.
{To lift up the hand}.
(a) To take an oath. --Gen. xiv. 22.
(b) To pray. --Ps. xxviii. 2.
(c) To engage in duty. --Heb. xii. 12.
{To lift up the hand against}, to rebel against; to assault;
to attack; to injure; to oppress. --Job xxxi. 21.
{To lift up one's head}, to cause one to be exalted or to
rejoice. --Gen. xl. 13. --Luke xxi. 28.
{To lift up the heel against}, to treat with insolence or
unkindness. --John xiii.18.
{To lift up the voice}, to cry aloud; to call out. --Gen.
xxi. 16.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Lift \Lift\ (l[i^]ft), verb (used without an object)
1. To try to raise something; to exert the strength for
raising or bearing.
Strained by lifting at a weight too heavy. --Locke.
2. To rise; to become or appear raised or elevated; as, the
fog lifts; the land lifts to a ship approaching it.
3. [See {Lift}, verb (used with an object), 5.] To steal; also, to live by theft.
--Spenser.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Lift \Lift\, noun
1. Act of lifting; also, that which is lifted.
2. The space or distance through which anything is lifted;
as, a long lift. --Bacon.
3. Help; assistance, as by lifting. Hence: A ride in a
vehicle, given by the vehicle's owner to another person as
a favor -- usually in ''give a lift'' or ''got a lift'';
as, to give one a lift in a wagon; Jack gave me a lift
into town. [Colloq.]
[1913 Webster +PJC]
The goat gives the fox a lift. --L'Estrange.
4. That by means of which a person or thing lifts or is
lifted; as:
(a) A hoisting machine; an elevator; a dumb waiter.
[Chiefly Brit.]
(b) An exercising machine.
5. A rise; a degree of elevation; as, the lift of a lock in
canals.
6. A lift gate. See {Lift gate}, below. [Prov. Eng.]
7. (Naut.) A rope leading from the masthead to the extremity
of a yard below; -- used for raising or supporting the end
of the yard.
8. (Mach.) One of the steps of a cone pulley.
9. (Shoemaking) A layer of leather in the heel.
10. (Horology) That portion of the vibration of a balance
during which the impulse is given. --Saunier.
11. A brightening of the spirits; encouragement; as, the
campaign workers got a lift from the President's
endorsement.
[PJC]
{Dead lift}. See under {Dead}. --Swift.
{Lift bridge}, a kind of drawbridge, the movable part of
which is lifted, instead of being drawn aside.
{Lift gate}, a gate that is opened by lifting.
{Lift hammer}. See {Tilt hammer}.
{Lift lock}, a canal lock.
{Lift pump}, a lifting pump.
{Lift tenter} (Windmills), a governor for regulating the
speed by adjusting the sails, or for adjusting the action
of grinding machinery according to the speed.
{Lift wall} (Canal Lock), the cross wall at the head of the
lock.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Elevator \El"e*va'tor\, noun [L., one who raises up, a deliverer:
cf. F. ['e]l['e]vateur.]
1. One who, or that which, raises or lifts up anything.
2. A mechanical contrivance, usually an endless belt or chain
with a series of scoops or buckets, for transferring grain
to an upper loft for storage.
3. A cage or platform (called an elevator car) and the
hoisting machinery in a hotel, warehouse, mine, etc., for
conveying persons, goods, etc., to or from different
floors or levels; -- called in England a {lift}; the cage
or platform itself.
4. A building for elevating, storing, and discharging, grain.
5. (Anat.) A muscle which serves to raise a part of the body,
as the leg or the eye.
6. (Surg.) An instrument for raising a depressed portion of a
bone.
7. (A["e]ronautics) A movable plane or group of planes used
to control the altitude or fore-and-aft poise or
inclination of an airship or flying machine.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
{Elevator head}, {Elevator leg}, & {Elevator boot}, the boxes
in which the upper pulley, belt, and lower pulley,
respectively, run in a grain elevator.
{Elevator shoes}, shoes having unusually thick soles and
heels, designed to make a person appear taller than he or
she actually is. [PJC]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
374 Moby Thesaurus words for "lift":
Caelus, Great Leap Forward, Olympian heights, Sunday drive,
a leg up, abstract, acculturate, acme, advance, advancement,
aerial heights, aerosphere, aggrandize, aid, air, airing,
ameliorate, amelioration, amend, amendment, amortize, and, annex,
annul, apex, appropriate, arise, ascend, ascent, aspire, assist,
assistance, atmosphere, azure, bag, bang, be poised, bear, better,
bettering, betterment, billow, biosphere, blue sky, boost, boot,
bore, borrow, break, breakers, bring forward, buoy up, burglary,
caelum, cancel, canopy, canopy of heaven, caper, carry, cast up,
cerulean, charge, chop, choppiness, chopping sea, civilize, clear,
comb, comber, comfort, conduct, confiscate, convey, cop, cope,
copy, crab, crane, crash, crib, dash, defraud, deify, derrick,
dignify, dirty water, disappear, discharge, discontinue, dismantle,
dissipate, dizzy heights, drive, dumbwaiter, eagre, ebb and flow,
ecosphere, edify, educate, elate, elevate, elevation, elevator,
embezzle, emend, eminence, empyrean, encouragement, end, enhance,
enhancement, enlighten, ennoble, enrich, enrichment, enshrine,
erect, erector, escalate, escalator, ether, eugenics, euthenics,
exalt, extort, fatten, favor, filch, firmament, flush, fly,
forklift, forward, foster, freight, furtherance, gantry crane,
gaseous envelope, go straight, grab, gravity wave, ground swell,
hand, headway, heave, heaven, heavens, heavy sea, heavy swell,
heft, height, heighten, heights, heist, helping hand, hike, hoick,
hoist, hold up, honor, hook, hyaline, hydraulic tailgate,
immortalize, improve, improve upon, improvement, inducement,
inspiration, jack, jackscrew, jerk up, job, jollies, joyride, kick,
knock up, larceny, lard, leg, leg up, lever, levitate, liberate,
lift up, lifter, lifts, liquidate, lob, loft, lop, lug, magnify,
make accounts square, make an improvement, make off with,
manhandle, meliorate, melioration, mend, mending, mount,
moving staircase, nick, nip, noosphere, nurture, pack, palm,
pay in full, pay off, pay the bill, pay the shot, pay up, peak,
perk up, pick up, pickup, pilfer, pinch, plagiarize, poach, pocket,
popple, preferment, progress, progression, promote, promotion,
purloin, purloining, quiver, raise, raise up, rear, rear up,
reassurance, recall, recovery, redeem, refine upon, reform, relief,
repeal, rescind, restoration, retire, reverse, revival, ride,
riffle, rip-off, ripple, rise, rise and fall, rising ground,
robbery, rocket, roll, roller, rough water, run away with, rush,
rush of emotion, rustle, satisfy, scend, scrounge, sea, send,
sensation, set up, settle, shiver, shoplift, shudder, sky, smash,
snare, snatch, snitch, soar, socialize, spin, square,
square accounts, starry heaven, steal, stealage, stealing, steep,
stick up, stimulus, stop, straighten out, stratosphere,
strike a balance, succor, support, surf, surge, surge of emotion,
swell, swindle, swipe, tackle, take, take away, take up, terminate,
the blue, the blue serene, theft, thieve, thievery, thieving,
thrill, throw up, tidal bore, tidal wave, tide wave, tingle,
tingling, titillation, toss, tote, touch, tower, transfigure,
transform, transport, tremor, tremor of excitement, trough,
tsunami, undulate, undulation, up, upbeat, upbuoy, upcast, upgrade,
upheave, uphoist, uphold, uplift, upping, upraise, uprear, uprise,
upswing, upthrow, uptrend, upward mobility, vanish, vantage ground,
vantage point, vault, vault of heaven, void, waft, walk off with,
water wave, wave, wavelet, welkin, whirl, whisk, white horses,
whitecaps, windlass, wing, withdraw, zenith
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