Lifting may refer to:
- Raising objects upwards, for example with lifting equipment
- Weightlifting
- Shoplifting
- Facelift
- An undesirable type of movement in the sport of racewalking.
- Taking an inference rule in propositional logic and adapting it for predicate logic
- Lift (mathematics)
- Lifting scheme (wavelets)
- Lambda lifting (computer science)
Famous quotes containing the word lifting:
“The symbol of perpetual youth, the grass-blade, like a long green ribbon, streams from the sod into the summer, checked indeed by the frost, but anon pushing on again, lifting its spear of last year’s hay with the fresh life below. It grows as steadily as the rill oozes out of the ground.... So our human life but dies down to its root, and still puts forth its green blade to eternity.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“It was something like love
From another world that seized her
From behind, and she gave, not lifting her head
Out of dew, without ever looking, her best
Self to that great need.”
—James Dickey (b. 1923)
“The little lifting helplessness, the queer
Whimper-whine; whose unridiculous
Lost softness softly makes a trap for us.
And makes a curse.”
—Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)