Lift

Lift may mean:

  • Lift (force), a mechanical force generated by an object moving through a fluid
  • Lift (soaring), rising air used by soaring birds and glider, hang glider and paraglider pilots for soaring flight
  • Lift (soft drink), a brand of carbonated beverage produced and marketed by the Coca-Cola Company
  • Lift (data mining), a measure of the performance of a model at segmenting the population
  • Airlift, in logistics, the act of transporting people or cargo from point to point using aircraft
  • Figure skating lifts, movements in pair skating and ice dancing
  • Hitchhiking, a form of transport in which the traveller tries to get a lift (or ride) from another traveller
  • Plastic surgery, surgery to "lift" the skin:
    • Rhytidectomy or "face lift", a type of plastic surgery
    • Mastopexy or "breast lift", a type of plastic surgery

Read more about Lift:  Physical Devices, Media, In Music, Mathematics, Other Uses

Famous quotes containing the word lift:

    Oh! lift me as a wave, a leaf, a cloud!
    I fall upon the thorns of life! I bleed!
    Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)

    For every man that Bolingbroke hath pressed
    To lift shrewd steel against our golden crown,
    God for his Richard hath in heavenly pay
    A glorious angel. Then if angels fight,
    Weak men must fall; for heaven still guards the right.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    They shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.
    Bible: Hebrew Isaiah, 2:4.

    The words reappear in Micah 4:3, and the reverse injunction is made in Joel 3:10 (”Beat your plowshares into swords ...”)