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Meaning of 'lift' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Lift [ n.]
- The sky; the atmosphere; the firmament.
- Act of lifting; also, that which is lifted.
- The space or distance through which anything is lifted; as, a long lift.
- Help; assistance, as by lifting; as, to give one a lift in a wagon.
- That by means of which a person or thing lifts or is lifted
- A hoisting machine; an elevator; a dumb waiter.
- A handle.
- An exercising machine.
- A rise; a degree of elevation; as, the lift of a lock in canals.
- A lift gate. See Lift gate, below.
- A rope leading from the masthead to the extremity of a yard below; -- used for raising or supporting the end of the yard.
- One of the steps of a cone pulley.
- A layer of leather in the heel.
- That portion of the vibration of a balance during which the impulse is given.
2 . Lift [ v. i.]
- To try to raise something; to exert the strength for raising or bearing.
- To rise; to become or appear raised or elevated; as, the fog lifts; the land lifts to a ship approaching it.
3 . Lift [ v. t.]
- 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.
- To raise, elevate, exalt, improve, in rank, condition, estimation, character, etc.; -- often with up.
- To bear; to support.
- To collect, as moneys due; to raise.
- To steal; to carry off by theft (esp. cattle); as, to lift a drove of cattle.
- To live by theft.

Meaning of 'lift' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . lift [ n]
Meaning (1):
- the event of something being raised upward
Example in sentence:
  • a raising of the land resulting from volcanic activity;
  • an elevation of the temperature in the afternoon
Meaning (2):
- the act of raising something
Example in sentence:
  • fireman learn several different raises for getting ladders up;
  • he responded with a lift of his eyebrow
Meaning (3):
- a ride in a car
Example in sentence:
  • he gave me a lift home
Meaning (4):
- 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
Example in sentence:
  • some actresses have more than one face lift
5 . lift [ v]
Meaning (5):
- fly people or goods to or from places not accessible by other means
Example in sentence:
  • Food is airlifted into Bosnia
Meaning (6):
- make audible
Example in sentence:
  • He lifted a war whoop
Meaning (7):
- cancel officially
Example in sentence:
  • He revoked the ban on smoking;
  • lift an embargo;
  • vacate a death sentence
Meaning (8):
- raise or haul up with or as if with mechanical help
Example in sentence:
  • hoist the bicycle onto the roof of the car
Meaning (9):
- put an end to
Example in sentence:
  • lift a ban;
  • raise a siege;
  • The terrible news ended our hopes that he had survived
Meaning (10):
- raise from a lower to a higher position
Example in sentence:
  • Lift a load;
  • Raise your hands
Meaning (11):
- invigorate or heighten
Example in sentence:
  • lift his ego;
  • lift my spirits
Meaning (12):
- move upwards
Example in sentence:
  • lift one's eyes
Meaning (13):
- take (root crops) out of the ground
Example in sentence:
  • lift potatoes
Meaning (14):
- take hold of something and move it to a different location
Example in sentence:
  • lift the box onto the table
Meaning (15):
- take off or away by decreasing
Example in sentence:
  • lift the pressure
Meaning (16):
- remove from a seedbed or from a nursery
Example in sentence:
  • lift the tulip bulbs
Meaning (17):
- take illegally
Example in sentence:
  • rustle cattle
Meaning (18):
- rise up
Example in sentence:
  • The building rose before them
Meaning (19):
- remove from a surface
Example in sentence:
  • the detective carefully lifted some fingerprints from the table
Meaning (20):
- rise upward, as from pressure or moisture
Example in sentence:
  • The floor is lifting slowly
Meaning (21):
- move upward
Example in sentence:
  • The fog lifted;
  • The mist uprose from the meadows;
  • The smoke arose from the forest fire
Meaning (22):
- raise in rank or condition
Example in sentence:
  • The new law lifted many people from poverty

Nearby Words:

lif life life-giving life-preserver life-saving life-size life-weary lifeblood lifeboat lifeful

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