# lifting
## English
### Pronunciation

* (UK, US) IPA: /ˈlɪf.tɪŋ/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɪftɪŋ

### Noun

lifting (countable and uncountable, plural liftings)
* The action or process by which something is lifted; elevation
** 1946, Eugene E. Thomas, Brotherhood of Mt. Shasta:For some moments he stood there contemplating the little fellows as they went about their work in their business-like way, taking no notice of his presence other than the liftings of their heads now and then, as if to ascertain if he were still there.
* (sports) weightlifting; a form of exercise in which weights are lifted
    Synonym: weightlifting
** 2008, Lou Schuler, "Foreward", in Nate Green, Built for Show, page xi
    When I started lifting in 1970, I was the skinniest thirteen-year-old I knew.
* (medicine) plastic surgery for tightening facial tissues and improving the facial appearance
    Synonym: facelift
* Theft.
** 1836, Tait's Edinburgh Magazine, volume 3, page 426:It was then as much the scene of continual spreaths, liftings, reavings, and herriments, as the Border country itself.
* (mathematics) A certain operation on a measure space; see lifting theory.

#### Derived terms

* car-lifting
* commutant lifting theorem
* (computing): type lifting
* ego lifting
* heavy lifting
* lifting agent
* lifting chalk
* lifting gas
* lifting shop
* lifting the exponent
* shoplifting
* star lifting
* tracklifting
* weightlifting

#### Translations
### Verb

lifting
* present participle and gerund of lift

### References

* lifting on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

### Anagrams

* fliting

## French
### Etymology

Borrowed from English lifting.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /lif.tiŋ/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

lifting m (plural liftings)
* facelift
    Synonym: lifting de visage

### Further reading

* “lifting”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

## Irish
### Etymology

From Middle Irish lipting, from Old Norse lypting (compare Norwegian Nynorsk lyfting).

### Noun

lifting f (genitive singular liftinge, nominative plural liftingí)
* (nautical, literary) taffrail
    Synonyms: rancás, teafrail

#### Declension

bare forms
case
singular
plural
nominative
lifting
liftingí
vocative
a lifting
a liftingí
genitive
liftinge
liftingí
dative
lifting
liftingí
forms with the definite article
case
singular
plural
nominative
an lifting
na liftingí
genitive
na liftinge
na liftingí
dative
leis an lifting don lifting
leis na liftingí :

### Further reading

* Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “lifting”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
* Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “lipting”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

## Italian
### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English lifting.

### Noun

lifting m (invariable)
* (surgery) face-lift, lifting

## Polish
### Etymology

Borrowed from English lifting.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈlif.tiŋk/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -iftiŋk
* Syllabification: lif‧ting

### Noun

lifting m inan
* facelift (plastic surgery to the face)

#### Declension
### Further reading

* lifting in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
* lifting in Polish dictionaries at PWN

## Romanian
### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English lifting.

### Noun

lifting n (plural liftinguri)
* lifting

#### Declension
## Spanish
### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈliftin/ [ˈlif.t̪ĩn]
* Rhymes: -iftin

### Noun

lifting m (plural liftings)
* lifting, facelift

#### Usage notes

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.

### Further reading

* “lifting”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10