What is lift?

More definitions of "lift":

• (noun): 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.
  Synonyms: elevator

• (verb): Put an end to.
  Example: "Lift a ban"
  Synonyms: raise

• (verb): Move upwards.
  Example: "Lift one's eyes"
  Synonyms: raise

• (verb): Invigorate or heighten.
  Example: "Lift my spirits"; "lift his ego"
  Synonyms: raise

• (noun): A device worn in a shoe or boot to make the wearer look taller or to correct a shortened leg.

• (verb): Raise in rank or condition.
  Synonyms: raise, elevate

• (verb): Take (root crops) out of the ground.
  Example: "Lift potatoes"

• (verb): Perform cosmetic surgery on someone's face.
  Synonyms: face-lift

• (noun): The component of the aerodynamic forces acting on an airfoil that opposes gravity.
  Synonyms: aerodynamic lift

• (verb): Remove from a seedbed or from a nursery.
  Example: "Lift the tulip bulbs"

• (verb): Remove from a surface.
  Example: "The detective carefully lifted some fingerprints from the table"

• (verb): Remove (hair) by scalping.

• (verb): Call to stop the hunt or to retire, as of hunting dogs.

• (verb): Take without referencing from someone else's writing or speech; of intellectual property.
  Synonyms: plagiarize, plagiarise

• (verb): Make audible.
  Example: "He lifted a war whoop"

• (noun): A ride in a car.
  Example: "He gave me a lift home"

• (verb): Take illegally.
  Synonyms: rustle

• (verb): Pay off (a mortgage).

• (verb): Fly people or goods to or from places not accessible by other means.
  Synonyms: airlift

• (verb): Move upward.
  Synonyms: rise, arise, move up, go up, come up, uprise

• (noun): The event of something being raised upward.
  Synonyms: elevation, raising

• (noun): One of the layers forming the heel of a shoe or boot.

• (verb): Annul by recalling or rescinding.
  Example: "Lift an embargo"
  Synonyms: revoke, annul, countermand, reverse, repeal, overturn, rescind, vacate

• (noun): 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: "Some actresses have more than one face lift"
  Synonyms: face lift, facelift, face lifting, cosmetic surgery, rhytidectomy, rhytidoplasty, nip and tuck

• (verb): Rise upward, as from pressure or moisture.
  Example: "The floor is lifting slowly"

• (verb): Take hold of something and move it to a different location.
  Example: "Lift the box onto the table"

• (noun): Transportation of people or goods by air (especially when other means of access are unavailable).
  Synonyms: airlift

• (noun): A powered conveyance that carries skiers up a hill.
  Synonyms: ski tow, ski lift

• (verb): Raise from a lower to a higher position.
  Example: "Lift a load"
  Synonyms: raise, elevate, get up, bring up

• (noun): The act of raising something.
  Example: "He responded with a lift of his eyebrow"
  Synonyms: raise, heave

• (noun): A wave that lifts the surface of the water or ground.
  Synonyms: rise

• (verb): Make off with belongings of others.
  Synonyms: pilfer, cabbage, purloin, pinch, abstract, snarf, swipe, hook, sneak, filch, nobble

• (noun): The act of giving temporary assistance.

• (verb): Raise or haul up with or as if with mechanical help.
  Synonyms: hoist, wind

• (verb): Rise up.
  Synonyms: rise, rear

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)

“When will the veil be lifted that casts so black a night over the universe? God of Israel, lift at last the gloom: For how long will you be hidden?”
—Jean Racine (1639–1699)

“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.