meaning of lift
1. The sky; the atmosphere; the firmament.
2. 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; as, to lift the foot or the hand; to lift a chair or a burden.
3. To raise, elevate, exalt, improve, in rank, condition, estimation, character, etc. ; -- often with up.
4. To bear; to support.
5. To collect, as moneys due; to raise.
6. To steal; to carry off by theft (esp. cattle); as, to lift a drove of cattle.
7. To try to raise something; to exert the strength for raising or bearing.
8. To rise; to become or appear raised or elevated; as, the fog lifts; the land lifts to a ship approaching it.
9. To live by theft.
10. Act of lifting; also, that which is lifted.
11. The space or distance through which anything is lifted; as, a long lift.
12. Help; assistance, as by lifting; as, to give one a lift in a wagon.
13. That by means of which a person or thing lifts or is lifted
14. A hoisting machine; an elevator; a dumb waiter.
15. A handle.
16. An exercising machine.
17. A rise; a degree of elevation; as, the lift of a lock in canals.
18. A lift gate. See Lift gate, below.
19. A rope leading from the masthead to the extremity of a yard below; -- used for raising or supporting the end of the yard.
20. One of the steps of a cone pulley.
21. A layer of leather in the heel.
22. That portion of the vibration of a balance during which the impulse is given.
23. the act of raising something; "he responded with a lift of his eyebrow"; "fireman learn several different raises for getting ladders
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Related Words
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