Lift - definition, pronunciation, transcription

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Amer.  |lɪft|  American pronunciation of the word lift
Brit.  |lɪft|  British pronunciation of the word lift

noun

- the act of giving temporary assistance
- the component of the aerodynamic forces acting on an airfoil that opposes gravity
- the event of something being raised upward (syn: elevation, raising)
- a wave that lifts the surface of the water or ground (syn: rise)
- a powered conveyance that carries skiers up a hill
- a device worn in a shoe or boot to make the wearer look taller or to correct a shortened leg
- one of the layers forming the heel of a shoe or boot
- 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 (syn: elevator)
- 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
some actresses have more than one face lift
- transportation of people or goods by air (especially when other means of access are unavailable) (syn: airlift)
- a ride in a car
he gave me a lift home
- the act of raising something (syn: heave, raise)
he responded with a lift of his eyebrow

verb

- raise from a lower to a higher position (syn: bring up, elevate, get up, raise)
- take hold of something and move it to a different location
lift the box onto the table
- move upwards (syn: raise)
lift one's eyes
- move upward (syn: arise, come up, go up, move up, rise, uprise)
The fog lifted
- make audible
He lifted a war whoop
- cancel officially (syn: annul, countermand, overturn, repeal, rescind, reverse, revoke, vacate)
lift an embargo
- make off with belongings of others (syn: abstract, cabbage, filch, hook, nobble, pilfer, pinch, purloin, sneak, swipe)
- raise or haul up with or as if with mechanical help (syn: hoist, wind)
- invigorate or heighten (syn: raise)
lift my spirits
lift his ego
- raise in rank or condition (syn: elevate, raise)
The new law lifted many people from poverty
- take off or away by decreasing
lift the pressure
- rise up (syn: rear, rise)
- pay off (a mortgage)
- take without referencing from someone else's writing or speech; of intellectual property (syn: plagiarize)
- take illegally (syn: rustle)
- fly people or goods to or from places not accessible by other means (syn: airlift)
Food is airlifted into Bosnia
- take (root crops) out of the ground
lift potatoes
- call to stop the hunt or to retire, as of hunting dogs
- rise upward, as from pressure or moisture
The floor is lifting slowly
- put an end to (syn: raise)
lift a ban
- remove (hair) by scalping
- remove from a seedbed or from a nursery
lift the tulip bulbs
- remove from a surface
the detective carefully lifted some fingerprints from the table
- perform cosmetic surgery on someone's face

Extra examples

The paramedics lifted the stretcher into the ambulance.

He lifted his foot from the gas pedal.

He lifted his pen from the paper.

She lifted her hands to the sky.

The story lifted him to national recognition.

With one great lift, the men moved the rock.

There was so much lift of sea.

Your words of encouragement gave us a real lift.

It was a mere lift of higher ground with a few grey cottages dotted over it.

A liftboy or liftman operates a lift.

We took the lift to the tenth floor.

The proud lift of her neck was gone.

Please lift the packages onto the counter.

Lift your head up and pay attention.

The encouraging letter lifted our hopes.

Word forms

verb
I/you/we/they: lift
he/she/it: lifts
present participle: lifting
past tense: lifted
past participle: lifted
noun
singular: lift
plural: lifts
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