Hypertext Webster Gateway: "lift"
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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Lift \Lift\ (l[i^]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[i^]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["o]fte, G. l["u]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[i^]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 WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
lift
n 1: the act of giving temporary assistance
2: the component of the aerodynamic forces acting on an airfoil
that opposes gravity [syn: {aerodynamic lift}]
3: the event of something being raised upward [syn: {elevation},
{raising}]
4: a wave that lifts the surface of the water or ground [syn: {rise}]
5: conveyance that carries skiers up a hill [syn: {ski tow}, {ski
lift}]
6: 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 [syn: {elevator}]
7: a ride in a car; "he gave me a lift home"
8: the act of raising something; "he responded with a lift of
his eyebrow"; "fireman learn several different raises for
getting ladders up" [syn: {raise}, {heave}, {elevation}]
v 1: raise from a lower to a higher position; "Raise your hands";
"Lift a load" [syn: {raise}, {elevate}, {get up}, {bring
up}] [ant: {lower}]
2: take hold of something and move it to a different location;
"lift the box onto the table"
3: move upwards; "lift one's eyes" [syn: {raise}]
4: move upward; "The fog lifted"; "The smoke arose from the
forest fire"; "The mist uprose from the meadows" [syn: {rise},
{arise}, {move up}, {go up}, {come up}, {uprise}] [ant: {descend}]
5: make audible; "He lifted a war whoop"
6: annul by recalling or rescinding; "He revoked the ban on
smoking"; "lift an embargo"; "vacate a death sentence"
[syn: {revoke}, {annul}, {countermand}, {reverse}, {repeal},
{overturn}, {rescind}, {vacate}]
7: make off with belongings of others [syn: {pilfer}, {cabbage},
{purloin}, {pinch}, {abstract}, {snarf}, {swipe}, {hook},
{sneak}, {filch}, {nobble}]
8: raise or haul up with or as if with mechanical help; "hoist
the bicycle onto the roof of the car" [syn: {hoist}, {wind}]
9: invigorate or heighten; "lift my spirits", "lift his ego"
[syn: {raise}]
10: raise in rank or condition: "The new law lifted many people
from poverty" [syn: {raise}, {elevate}]
11: take off or away by decreasing; "lift the pressure"
12: rise up; "The building rose before them" [syn: {rise}, {rear}]
13: pay off; as of mortgages
14: take without referencing from someone else's writing or
speech; of intellectual property [syn: {plagiarize}, {plagiarise}]
15: take illegally, as of cattle [syn: {rustle}]
16: fly people or goods to or from places not accessible by
other means: "Food is airlifted into Bosnia" [syn: {airlift}]
17: take out of the ground, of root crops; "lift potatoes"
18: call to stop the hunt or to retire, as of hunting dogs
19: rise upward, as from pressure or moisture; "The floor is
lifting slowly"
20: put an end to, as of a siege or a blockade; "lift a ban";
"raise a siege" [syn: {raise}]
21: remove by scalping, of hair
22: remove from a seedbed or form a nursery, as of bulbs
23: remove from a surface, of fingerprints
24: perform cosmetic surgery on someone's face [syn: {face-lift}]
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