Definitions for lifts

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IPA: /lɪft/

Lifts is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 55 anagrams from letters in lifts (filst).

Definitions for lifts

noun

1. the act of lifting, raising, or rising:
2. the distance that anything rises or is raised:
3. a lifting or raising force:
4. the weight, load, or quantity lifted.
5. an act or instance of helping to climb or mount:
6. a ride in a vehicle, especially one given to a pedestrian:
7. a feeling of exaltation or uplift:
8. assistance or aid:
9. a device or apparatus for lifting:
10. a movement in which a dancer, skater, etc., lifts up his partner.
11. Skiing. ski lift. chairlift.
12. British. elevator (def 2). any device used to lift or elevate, as a dumbwaiter or hoist.
13. Informal. a theft.
14. a rise or elevation of ground.
15. Aeronautics. the component of the aerodynamic force exerted by the air on an airfoil, having a direction perpendicular to the direction of motion and causing an aircraft to stay aloft.
16. Nautical. the capacity of a cargo ship measured in dead-weight tons. topping lift.
17. one of the layers of leather forming the heel of a boot or shoe.
18. a special arch support built or inserted into footwear.
19. Mining. the slice or thickness of ore mined in one operation.
20. Building Trades. the height of the quantity of concrete poured into a form at one time.
21. Naval Architecture. any of the horizontal planks forming a type of half model (lift model) able to be removed and measured as a guide to laying out the water lines of the vessel at full scale.
22. Typesetting. fat (def 23).
23. Printing. the quantity of paper loaded into or removed from a press or other printing machine at one time.
24. Horology. the displacement of a pallet by an escape wheel that has been unlocked. the angle through which the pallet passes when so displaced.
25. airlift (defs 1–3).

verb (used with object)

1. to move or bring (something) upward from the ground or other support to a higher position; hoist.
2. to raise or direct upward:
3. to remove or rescind by an official act, as a ban, curfew, or tax:
4. to stop or put an end to (a boycott, blockade, etc.):
5. to hold up or display on high.
6. to raise in rank, condition, estimation, etc.; elevate or exalt (sometimes used reflexively):
7. to make audible or louder, as the voice or something voiced:
8. to transfer from one setting to another:
9. Informal. to plagiarize:
10. Informal. to steal:
11. airlift (def 5).
12. to remove (plants and tubers) from the ground, as after harvest or for transplanting.
13. Horology. (of an escape wheel) to move (a pallet) by moving along the outer, oblique face.
14. to pay off (a mortgage, promissory note, etc.).
15. Golf. to pick up (the ball), as to move it from an unplayable lie.
16. to perform a surgical face lifting on.
17. Shipbuilding. to transfer (measurements and the like) from a drawing, model, etc., to a piece being built. to form (a template) according to a drawing, model, etc.
18. to cease temporarily from directing (fire or bombardment) on an objective or area:
19. Fox Hunting. to take (hounds) from the line of a fox to where it has just been seen.

verb (used without object)

1. to go up; yield to upward pressure:
2. to pull or strain upward in the effort to raise something:
3. to move upward or rise; rise and disperse, as clouds or fog.
4. (of rain) to stop temporarily.
5. to rise to view above the horizon when approached, as land seen from the sea.

Origin of lifts

1250-1300; 1955-60 for def 10; Middle English liften Old Norse lypta, derivative of lopt air, cognate with German lüften literally, to take aloft; see loft

Examples for lifts

Yet, it lifted my soul higher than all their former strains.

Once I got over that hurdle, it was as if a huge weight had lifted and I was not scared anymore.

Unless Cuba sends them back, you might consider following the now lifted embargo with your own personal boycott.

With help, he got to his feet, and when she hugged him he lifted his arms slightly as if to return the hug.

On one summer lunch hour, Donna Ann Levonuk, 50, lifted a tub of diaper cream priced at $43.98—and then stashed it in her purse.

Presently he was lifted and carried by strong arms up a creaking stairs.

He lifted Dennet on his shoulder, and bade her wave her parchment.

Then, still softly and swiftly, he lifted the saddle from its peg and put it on its back.

As she spoke, Geta lifted the curtain, and Philothea instantly obeyed the signal.

A ban on the ringing of church bells, lifted in 1941, was reimposed.