Definitions for lift

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IPA: /lɪft/

Lift is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 27 anagrams from letters in lift (filt).

Definitions for lift

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 lift

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 lift

lift up your sweet face, my best child, my own Clarissa Harlowe!

He vows that it will create 250,000 jobs, lift Nicaragua out of poverty and make it the maritime capital of the world.

She put out both arms as if to lift the young girl, and carry her away.

Mrs. Roberts, it was just that which she wanted to do,—lift them up.

And in the summer, when the lift is idle, it feeds juice into the local community.

The Kurds claimed at least 100 Islamic militants were killed in the two-day battle to lift the siege.

Mechanically, you raise your hand to lift away your optimistic spectacles.

Here I am, and here I bide, while God gives me strength to lift a sword.

In a day, he'll play basketball and racquetball, lift weights and run, then throw.

In essence, they placed a bunch of solar panels in the form of a suspension bridge on top of the lift.