lifting : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: lifting	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for lifting
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Lift \Lift\ (l[icr]ft), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Lifted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Lifting}.] [Icel. lypta, fr. lopt air; akin to Sw. lyfta to lift, Dan. l[94]fte, G. l[81]ften; -- prop., to raise into the air. See {Loft}, and cf. 1st {Lift}.] 1. 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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Lifting \Lift"ing\, a. Used in, or for, or by, lifting. {Lifting bridge}, a lift bridge. {Lifting jack}. See 2d {Jack}, 5. {Lifting machine}. See {Health lift}, under {Health}. {Lifting pump}. (Mach.) (a) A kind of pump having a bucket, or valved piston, instead of a solid piston, for drawing water and lifting it to a high level. (b) A pump which lifts the water only to the top of the pump, or delivers it through a spout; a lift pump. {Lifting rod}, a vertical rod lifted by a rock shaft, and imparting motion to a puppet valve; -- used in the engines of river steamboats. {Lifting sail} (Naut.), one which tends to lift a vessel's bow out of water, as jibs and square foresails.