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:
“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)
“Thales claimed that everything was water. He also put wine into water to sterilize it. Did he really believe he was putting water into water to sterilize it? Parmenides, like most Greeks, knew that wine was not water. But while lifting a glass of wine to his lips, he denied that motion was possible. Did he really believe that the glass was not moving when he lifted it?”
—Avrum Stroll (b. 1921)