lift : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: lift	by the DICT Development Group
5 results for lift
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
lift n the act of giving temporary assistance the component of the aerodynamic forces acting on an airfoil that opposes gravity Synonym(s): aerodynamic lift, lift the event of something being raised upward; "an elevation of the temperature in the afternoon"; "a raising of the land resulting from volcanic activity" Synonym(s): elevation, lift, raising a wave that lifts the surface of the water or ground Synonym(s): lift, rise a powered conveyance that carries skiers up a hill Synonym(s): ski tow, ski lift, lift 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 Synonym(s): elevator, lift 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" Synonym(s): face lift, facelift, lift, face lifting, cosmetic surgery, rhytidectomy, rhytidoplasty, nip and tuck transportation of people or goods by air (especially when other means of access are unavailable) Synonym(s): airlift, lift a ride in a car; "he gave me a lift home" the act of raising something; "he responded with a lift of his eyebrow"; "fireman learn several different raises for getting ladders up" Synonym(s): lift, raise, heave v raise from a lower to a higher position; "Raise your hands"; "Lift a load" Synonym(s): raise, lift, elevate, get up, bring up Antonym(s): bring down, get down, let down, lower, take down take hold of something and move it to a different location; "lift the box onto the table" move upwards; "lift one's eyes" Synonym(s): lift, raise move upward; "The fog lifted"; "The smoke arose from the forest fire"; "The mist uprose from the meadows" Synonym(s): rise, lift, arise, move up, go up, come up, uprise Antonym(s): come down, descend, fall, go down make audible; "He lifted a war whoop" cancel officially; "He revoked the ban on smoking"; "lift an embargo"; "vacate a death sentence" Synonym(s): revoke, annul, lift, countermand, reverse, repeal, overturn, rescind, vacate make off with belongings of others Synonym(s): pilfer, cabbage, purloin, pinch, abstract, snarf, swipe, hook, sneak, filch, nobble, lift raise or haul up with or as if with mechanical help; "hoist the bicycle onto the roof of the car" Synonym(s): hoist, lift, wind invigorate or heighten; "lift my spirits"; "lift his ego" Synonym(s): raise, lift raise in rank or condition; "The new law lifted many people from poverty" Synonym(s): lift, raise, elevate take off or away by decreasing; "lift the pressure" rise up; "The building rose before them" Synonym(s): rise, lift, rear pay off (a mortgage) take without referencing from someone else's writing or speech; of intellectual property Synonym(s): plagiarize, plagiarise, lift take illegally; "rustle cattle" Synonym(s): rustle, lift fly people or goods to or from places not accessible by other means; "Food is airlifted into Bosnia" Synonym(s): airlift, lift 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; "lift a ban"; "raise a siege" Synonym(s): lift, raise 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 Synonym(s): face- lift, lift
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Lift \Lift\ (l[icr]ft), n. [AS. lyft air. See {Loft}.] The sky; the atmosphere; the firmament. [Obs. or Scot.]
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]:
Lift \Lift\ (l[icr]ft), v. i. 1. To try to raise something; to exert the strength for raising or bearing. Strained by lifting at a weight too heavy. --Locke. 2. To rise; to become or appear raised or elevated; as, the fog lifts; the land lifts to a ship approaching it. 3. [See {Lift}, v. t., 5.] To live by theft. --Spenser.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Lift \Lift\, n. 1. Act of lifting; also, that which is lifted. 2. The space or distance through which anything is lifted; as, a long lift. --Bacon. 3. Help; assistance, as by lifting; as, to give one a lift in a wagon. [Colloq.] The goat gives the fox a lift. --L'Estrange.