lift

Pronunciation

• enPR: lĭft, IPA: /lɪft/

Verb

lift (third-person singular simple present lifts, present participle lifting, simple past lifted or (rare, regional, obsolete) lift, past participle lifted or (rare, regional, obsolete) lift or (obsolete) yleft)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To raise or rise.
   • The fog eventually lifted, leaving the streets clear.
   • You never lift a finger to help me!
2. (transitive, slang) To steal.
3. (transitive, slang) To source directly without acknowledgement; to plagiarise.
4. (transitive, slang) To arrest (a person).
5. (transitive) To remove (a ban, restriction, etc.).
6. (transitive) To alleviate, to lighten (pressure, tension, stress, etc.)
7. (transitive) to cause to move upwards.
8. (informal, intransitive) To lift weights; to weight-lift.
   • She lifts twice a week at the gym.
9. To try to raise something; to exert the strength for raising or bearing.
10. To elevate or improve in rank, condition, etc.; often with up.
11. (obsolete) To bear; to support.
12. To collect, as moneys due; to raise.
13. (programming) To transform (a function) into a corresponding function in a different context.
14. (finance) To buy a security or other asset previously offered for sale.
15. (hunting, transitive) To take (hounds) off the existing scent and move them to another spot.

Noun

lift (countable and uncountable, plural lifts)

1. An act of lifting or raising.
2. The act of transporting someone in a vehicle; a ride; a trip.
   • Synonym: ride
   • He gave me a lift to the bus station.
3. (UK, Australia, New Zealand) Mechanical device for vertically transporting goods or people between floors in a building.
   • Synonym: (US, Canada, Australia) elevator
   • Take the lift to the fourth floor.
4. An upward force, such as the force that keeps aircraft aloft.
   • Synonym: uplift
5. (measurement) The difference in elevation between the upper pool and lower pool of a waterway, separated by lock.
6. (historical slang) A thief.
7. (dance) The lifting of a dance partner into the air.
8. Permanent construction with a built-in platform that is lifted vertically.
9. (figurative) An improvement in mood.
10. The amount or weight to be lifted.
    • What's the maximum lift of this crane?
11. The space or distance through which anything is lifted.
12. A rise; a degree of elevation.
    • the lift of a lock in canals
13. A liftgate.
14. (nautical) A rope leading from the masthead to the extremity of a yard below, and used for raising or supporting the end of the yard.
15. (engineering) One of the steps of a cone pulley.
16. (shoemaking) A layer of leather in the heel of a shoe.
17. (horology) That portion of the vibration of a balance during which the impulse is given.

Noun

lift (usually uncountable, plural lifts)

1. (UK dialectal, chiefly Scotland) Air.
2. (UK dialectal, chiefly Scotland) The sky; the heavens; firmament; atmosphere.

Anagrams

• ILTF, flit

Noun

lift n (singular definite liftet, plural indefinite lift)

1. The non-commercial act of transporting someone in a vehicle: ride
2. boost

Noun

lift c (singular definite liften, plural indefinite lifte or lifter)

1. carrycot
2. elevator
3. lift

Pronunciation

• IPA: /lɪft/
• Hyphenation: lift

Noun

lift m (plural liften, diminutive liftje n)

1. A lift, an elevator.
2. A free ride, a lift.

Verb

lift

1. first-, second- and third-person singular present indicative of liften
2. imperative of liften

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈlift/

Noun

lift (genitive lifti, partitive lifti)

1. lift, elevator

Noun

lift m (plural lifts)

1. (obsolete) lift attendant (UK), elevator attendant (US)
2. (sports) topspin

Pronunciation

• IPA: [ˈlift]
• Hyphenation: lift

Noun

lift (plural liftek)

1. lift, elevator
   • Synonym: (formal) felvonó
   • Hyponym: (a slow, continuously moving lift or elevator) páternoszter

Pronunciation

• IPA: [ˈlɪf]
• Hyphenation: lift

Noun

lift (plural lift-lift, first-person possessive liftku, second-person possessive liftmu, third-person possessive liftnya)

1. lift, mechanical device for vertically transporting goods or people between floors in a building; an elevator.

Noun

lift m (invariable)

1. lift / elevator operator
2. (tennis) topspin

Alternative forms

• luft, left, leoft

Pronunciation

• IPA: /lift/

Adjective

lift

1. left

Pronunciation

• IPA: /lift/

Noun

lift n (plural lifturi)

1. elevator, lift
   • Synonym: ascensor
2. (tennis, table tennis, volleyball) A stroke that gives the ball an upward trajection.

Alternative forms

• luft

Noun

lift (plural lifts)

1. sky, firmament
2. (Middle Scots) air, atmosphere

Pronunciation

• IPA: /lîft/

Noun

lȉft m (Cyrillic spelling ли̏фт)

1. lift, elevator

Pronunciation

• IPA: [lift]

Noun

lift m inan (genitive singular liftu, nominative plural lifty, genitive plural liftov, declension pattern of dub)

1. (colloquial) an elevator, lift
   • Synonym: výťah

Noun

lift (plural liftlar)

1. elevator, lift

Noun

lift (nominative plural lifts)

1. elevator
2. altitude adjustor