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v. To direct or carry from a lower to a higher position; raise: lift one's eyes; lifted the suitcase.

v. To transport by air: The helicopter lifted the entire team to the meet.

v. To revoke by taking back; rescind: lifted the embargo.

v. To bring an end to (a blockade or siege) by removing forces.

v. To cease (artillery fire) in an area.

v. To raise in condition, rank, or esteem.

v. To uplift; elate: Your telephone call really lifted my spirits.

v. To remove (plants) from the ground for transplanting.

v. To project or sound in loud, clear tones: lifted their voices in song.

v. Informal To steal; pilfer: A thief lifted my wallet.

v. Informal To copy from something already published; plagiarize: lifted whole paragraphs from the encyclopedia.

v. To pay off or clear (a debt or mortgage, for example).

v. To perform cosmetic surgery on (the face, for example), especially in order to remove wrinkles or sagging skin.

v. Sports To hit (a golf ball) very high into the air.

v. To pick up (a golf ball) to place it in a better lie.

v. To shoot or flip (a puck) so that it rises sharply off the ice.

verb-intransitive. To rise; ascend.

verb-intransitive. To yield to upward pressure: These windows lift easily.

verb-intransitive. To disappear or disperse by or as if by rising: By afternoon the smog had lifted.

verb-intransitive. To stop temporarily: The rain lifted by morning.

verb-intransitive. To become elevated; soar: Their spirits lifted when help came.

n. The act or process of rising or raising to a higher position.

n. Power or force available for raising: the lift of a pump.

n. An amount or a weight raised or capable of being raised at one time; a load.

n. The extent or height to which something is raised or rises; the amount of elevation.

n. The distance or space through which something is raised or rises.

n. A rise or an elevation in the level of the ground.

n. An elevation of the spirits: The good news gave us a lift.

n. A raised, high, or erect position, as of a part of the body: the lift of his chin.

n. A machine or device designed to pick up, raise, or carry something.

n. One of the layers of leather, rubber, or other material making up the heel of a shoe.

n. Chiefly British A passenger or cargo elevator.

n. A ride in a vehicle given to help someone reach a destination: gave my friend a lift into town.

n. Assistance or help: gave her a lift with her heavy packages.

n. A set of pumps used in a mine.

n. The component of the total aerodynamic force acting on an airfoil or on an entire aircraft or winged missile perpendicular to the relative wind and normally exerted in an upward direction, opposing the pull of gravity.

phrasal-verb. lift off To begin flight: The spacecraft lifted off at noon.

idiom. lift fire To increase the range of artillery fire by elevating the muzzle of a piece.

v. To raise.

v. To steal.

v. To remove (a ban, restriction, etc.).

v. To alleviate, to lighten (pressure, tension, stress, etc.)

v. to cause to move upwards.

v. To lift weights; to weight-lift.

n. An act of lifting or raising.

n. The act of transporting someone in a vehicle; a ride; a trip.

n. Mechanical device for vertically transporting goods or people between floors in a building; an elevator.

n. An upward force, such as the force that keeps aircraft aloft.

n. the difference in elevation between the upper pool and lower pool of a waterway, separated by lock.

n. A thief.

n. The lifting of a dance partner into the air.

n. Permanent construction with a built-in platform that is lifted vertically.

n. an improvement in mood

n. Air.

n. The sky; the heavens; firmament; atmosphere.

n. The sky; the atmosphere; the firmament.

v. To move in a direction opposite to that of gravitation; to raise; to elevate; to bring up from a lower place to a higher; to upheave; sometimes implying a continued support or holding in the higher place; -- said of material things.

v. To raise, elevate, exalt, improve, in rank, condition, estimation, character, etc.; -- often with up.

v. To bear; to support.

v. To collect, as moneys due; to raise.

v. To steal; to carry off by theft (esp. cattle).

verb-intransitive. To try to raise something; to exert the strength for raising or bearing.

verb-intransitive. To rise; to become or appear raised or elevated

verb-intransitive. To steal; also, to live by theft.

n. Act of lifting; also, that which is lifted.

n. The space or distance through which anything is lifted.

n. Help; assistance, as by lifting.

n. That by means of which a person or thing lifts or is lifted.

n. A hoisting machine; an elevator; a dumb waiter.

n. An exercising machine.

n. A rise; a degree of elevation.

n. A lift gate. See Lift gate, below.

n. A rope leading from the masthead to the extremity of a yard below; -- used for raising or supporting the end of the yard.

n. One of the steps of a cone pulley.

n. A layer of leather in the heel.

n. That portion of the vibration of a balance during which the impulse is given.

n. A brightening of the spirits; encouragement.

n. The air; the atmosphere; the sky; the heavens.

To move or heave upward in space; bring to a higher place or position; raise; elevate: often followed by up: as, to lift a stone from the ground: to lift up one who has fallen.

To bring to a higher degree, rank, or condition; make more lofty or considerable; elevate; exalt; raise to a high or a higher pitch or state of feeling, as the voice, the mind, etc.

To keep elevated or exalted; hold up; display on high: as, the mountain lifts its head above the clouds.

To take away; steal. See lift.

In mining, same as draw, 30.

To gather; collect: as, to lift rents.

To carve (a swan).

To bear; support.

Synonyms and Hoist, Heave, etc. See raise.

To raise or endeavor to raise something; exert the strength for the purpose of raising something.

To rise or seem to rise; disappear in the air: as, the fog lifts.

Nautical, to shake lightly in the wind: said of a sail when the wind blows on its edge at too small an angle to fill it.

n. The act or manner of lifting or raising; a raising or rising up; elevation.

n. Assistance by, or by means of, lifting; hence, assistance in general; a helping hand: as, to give one a lift (a help on one's way) in a wagon.

n. A rise; degree of elevation; extent of rise, or distance through which anything is raised.

n. Specifically— The extent of rise in a canal-lock: as, a lift of ten feet.

n. In mining: The distance from one level to another.

n. The distance through which the pestle of an ore-stamp rises and falls.

n. A rise in state or condition; promotion; advancement: as, to get a lift in the army for bravery.

n. Elevation of style or sentiment; action of lifting or elevating, as the mind.

n. Anything which assists in lifting, or by which objects are lifted.

n. In mining, a set of pumps.

n. A handle, knob, or other device attached to windows and window-blinds to afford a hold in raising or lowering them.

n. One of the steps or grooves of a cone-pulley. The speed of the hoist is varied by changing the belt from lift to lift.

n. The long stock or rod of a deep well-pump.

n. In a ship's rigging, one of the ropes connecting the ends of a yard with a masthead or cap. By means of such ropes the yards are squared or trimmed—that is, brought into and held in a position at right angles with the mast.

n. A machine for exercising the body by the act of lifting. Also called lifting-machine and health-lift.

n. In a lathe and in other machine-tools, any one of the ledges, flats, or grooves on or in the periphery of the headstock-pulley, and of a similar pulley of the shaft or countershaft from which power is taken. These lifts are so proportioned and arranged that shifting the belt from a lift of a given diameter to one of a smaller diameter on the headstock-pulley compels it to be also shifted from a lift of smaller to one of larger diameter on the countershaft-pulley. Thus several definite changes of speed of rotation may be obtained with the same belt.

n. That which is lifted or is to be lifted.

n. In a boot or shoe, one of the thicknesses of leather which are pegged together to form the heel; a heel-lift.

n. A last resort; a desperate emergency.

To remove surreptitiously; take and carry away; steal; purloin: as, to lift cattle.

To practise theft; steal.

n. A thief.

An obsolete form of left.

In cricket, to hit (the ball) high into the air.

In archery, to shoot at an elevation, or with a high trajectory, in order to cover the required distance: said of an arrow.

In forestry, to pry up (seedlings in a seed-bed), so that they may be pulled up by hand for transplanting.

To pay off; take off (a mortgage).

To bring (a constellation) above the horizon in sailing, etc.

To drive (sheep or cattle) to market.

n. In coal-mining, a slice or cut taken off a pillar in stoping.

n. In textile-manuf., the extent of the traverse of a guide-eye or bobbin, as on a spinningframe.

n. In lawn-tennis, a little added power at tho end of the stroke.

n. the lifts of the yards on the mainmast; the supports for the yards: specifically, the lifts of the main yard.

n. the lifts of the yards on the mizzenmast; the supports for the yards.

n. a wave that lifts the surface of the water or ground

v. rise up

v. pay off (a mortgage)

v. move upwards

n. transportation of people or goods by air (especially when other means of access are unavailable)

n. the event of something being raised upward

n. 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

v. remove (hair) by scalping

v. put an end to

n. a device worn in a shoe or boot to make the wearer look taller or to correct a shortened leg

v. take off or away by decreasing

v. invigorate or heighten

v. take hold of something and move it to a different location

n. the act of giving temporary assistance

v. take without referencing from someone else's writing or speech; of intellectual property

v. make off with belongings of others

v. raise in rank or condition

n. 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

v. fly people or goods to or from places not accessible by other means

n. one of the layers forming the heel of a shoe or boot

n. the component of the aerodynamic forces acting on an airfoil that opposes gravity

n. a ride in a car

v. rise upward, as from pressure or moisture

v. take (root crops) out of the ground

v. make audible

v. raise from a lower to a higher position

v. remove from a surface

v. call to stop the hunt or to retire, as of hunting dogs

v. cancel officially

v. perform cosmetic surgery on someone's face

v. remove from a seedbed or from a nursery

v. raise or haul up with or as if with mechanical help

n. a powered conveyance that carries skiers up a hill

v. move upward

n. the act of raising something

v. take illegally

"_Dip and lift, dip and lift_, through an infinity of time and torture and travail, till even the line dimmed and faded and the struggle lost its meaning."

lifted    lifting    lifts   

moving ridge    wave    liquidate    payoff    displace    move    rising    rise    ascension    ascent   

cast   

layer    elevator    dignify    elevate    steal    pay    to lift up the head    hydraulic lift    to lift the crib    lifting magnet   

lift-off   

bear    support    raise    steal    rise    help    elevator    encouragement    welkin    atmosphere   

Clift    Shift    Swift    adrift    clift    drift    gift    miffed    riffed    rift   

elevator    load    twist    shake    sweep    move    thrust    swing    pressure    pull