lift
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Definitions oflift
- An act of lifting or raising.
- The act of transporting someone in a vehicle; a ride; a trip.
Example: "He gave me a lift to the bus station."
- Mechanical device for vertically transporting goods or people between floors in a building; an elevator.
Example: "Take the lift to the fourth floor."
- An upward force, such as the force that keeps aircraft aloft.
- (measurement) The difference in elevation between the upper pool and lower pool of a waterway, separated by lock.
- A thief.
- The lifting of a dance partner into the air.
- Permanent construction with a built-in platform that is lifted vertically.
- An improvement in mood.
- The amount or weight to be lifted.
Example: "What's the maximum lift of this crane?"
- The space or distance through which anything is lifted.
- A rise; a degree of elevation.
Example: "the lift of a lock in canals"
- A liftgate.
- A rope leading from the masthead to the extremity of a yard below, and used for raising or supporting the end of the yard.
- One of the steps of a cone pulley.
- (shoemaking) A layer of leather in the heel of a shoe.
- That portion of the vibration of a balance during which the impulse is given.
- To raise or rise.
Example: "The fog eventually lifted, leaving the streets clear."
- To steal.
- To source directly without acknowledgement; to plagiarise.
- To arrest (a person).
- To remove (a ban, restriction, etc.).
- To alleviate, to lighten (pressure, tension, stress, etc.)
- To cause to move upwards.
- To lift weights; to weight-lift.
Example: "She lifts twice a week at the gym."
- To try to raise something; to exert the strength for raising or bearing.
- To elevate or improve in rank, condition, etc.; often with up.
- To bear; to support.
- To collect, as moneys due; to raise.
- To transform (a function) into a corresponding function in a different context.
- To buy a security or other asset previously offered for sale.
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