Meaning of lift | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To raise or rise
2. Air.
   Scotland, UK, dialectal, uncountable, usually
3. An act of lifting or raising.
   countable, uncountable
4. To cause to move upwards
5. The sky; the heavens; firmament; atmosphere.
   Scotland, UK, dialectal, uncountable, usually
6. To begin flight: The spacecraft lifted off at noon.
7. The act of transporting someone in a vehicle; a ride; a trip.
   countable, uncountable
8. To steal
9. To increase the range of artillery fire by elevating the muzzle of a piece.
10. Mechanical device for vertically transporting goods or people between floors in a building.
    Australia, India, New-Zealand, UK, countable, uncountable
11. To source directly without acknowledgement; to plagiarise
12. lift a finger or hand, to exert any effort at all.
13. An upward force; especially, the force (generated by wings, rotary wings, or airfoils) that keeps aircraft aloft.
    countable, uncountable
14. To arrest (a person)
15. An upward force acting on an object. Lift can be caused because an object, such as an air balloon, contains a type of gas that weighs less than air, or because of a low-pressure area above an object, such as a wing, that is moving through a fluid. Compare drag. See Note at aerodynamics.
16. The difference in elevation between the upper pool and lower pool of a waterway, separated by lock.
    countable, uncountable
17. lansering, opstyging إقلاع، إنْطِلاق излитам partir odstartovat, vzlétnout abheben affyring ανυψώνομαι, ανύψωσηdespegar õhku tõusma خیزش؛ برخاستن nousu décollerהמראה उड़ान की शुरूआत polijetanje felemelkedik lepas landas flugtak decollare 離陸 이륙 pakilti palaist (raķeti, kosmosa kuģi) melancar naik lancerenutskytingwystartować پورته كيدل،پاڅيدل partir a decola отрываться от земли odpáliť vzleteti uzleteti start, uppskjutning ออกจากฐาน havalanmak, kalkmak (火箭等)升空，起飛 стартувати زمین کی سطح سے اوپر...
18. A thief.
    countable, historical, slang, uncountable
19. vt. levantar, alzar, elevar;___ your hand → levante, levanta la mano;
20. The lifting of a dance partner into the air.
    countable, uncountable
21. To direct or carry from a lower to a higher position; raise: lift one's eyes; lifted the suitcase.
22. Permanent construction with a built-in platform that is lifted vertically.
    countable, uncountable
23. To revoke by taking back; rescind: lifted the embargo.
24. An improvement in mood.
    countable, figuratively, uncountable
25. The amount or weight to be lifted.
    countable, uncountable
26. To cease (artillery fire) in an area.
27. The space or distance through which anything is lifted.
    countable, uncountable
28. To raise in condition, rank, or esteem: work that lifted her in the eyes of her colleagues.
29. A rise; a degree of elevation.
    countable, uncountable
30. A liftgate.
    countable, uncountable
31. A rope leading from the masthead to the extremity of a yard below, and used for raising or supporting the end of the yard.
    countable, uncountable
32. One of the steps of a cone pulley.
    countable, uncountable
33. A layer of leather in the heel of a shoe.
    countable, uncountable
34. That portion of the vibration of a balance during which the impulse is given.
    countable, uncountable
35. A morphism which some given morphism factors through; i.e. given a pair of morphisms f:X→Y and g:Z→Y, a morphism h such that f=g∘h. (In this case h is said to be a lift of f via Z or via g).
    countable, uncountable
36. A shorter extract from a commercial/advertisement, able to be used on its own.
    countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“He gave me a lift to the bus station.”

“Accordingly, in spite of many grumbles and remonstrances from Summerlee, I ordered an additional tube, which was placed with the other in his motor-car, for he had offered me a lift to Victoria.”

“Take the lift to the fourth floor.”

“Even the lift in which the three of them were whirled up to one of the upper floors of the huge building was to the girl a new and delightful experience. Daisy had always lived a simple, quiet life in the little country town where dwelt Old Aunt, and this was the first time a lift had come her way.”

“The lift came into the shop dressed like a country gentleman, but was careful not to have a cloak about him, so that the tradesman could see he had no opportunity to conceal any goods about his person.”

“The news rocked us, especially since we were anticipating a lift for our spirits under the grim circumstances.”

“Just to think he had both a mistress and a wife gave him a lift. He needed a lift, for although he'd had promotion, his wasn't an exciting job.”

“The dismissal of a player who left Arsenal for Manchester City before joining Tottenham gave the home players and fans a noticeable lift.”

“What's the maximum lift of this crane?”

“the lift of a lock in canals”

“some measure the total lift and others only the lift on one side, a quantity which is not exactly half of the total lift”

“For a covering space p#58;#92;tildeX#92;toX a path #92;gamma [i.e. a continuous map #91;0,1#93;#92;toX] in X has a unique lift #92;tilde#92;gamma starting at a given point of p#123;-1#125;(#92;gamma(0))”

“No, no, Leddy! the sun maun be up in the lift whan I venture to her den.”

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