uplift
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: ŭp-lĭftʹ
ipa: /ʌpˈlɪft/
enpr: ŭpʹlĭft
ipa: /ˈʌp.lɪft/
rhymes: (verb) -ɪft
Forms: form: uplifts
form: uplifting
form: uplifted
form: uplifted
Etymology: From up- + lift.
Senses: examples: text: Whether you find it by your power as a man, or because, being near the gods, a god has whispered you. Uplift our State; think upon your fame; your coming brought us luck, be lucky to us still, remember that it is better to rule over men than over a waste place, since neither walled town nor ship is anything if it be empty and no man within it.
ref: 1928, W[illiam] B[utler] Yeats, Sophocles’ King Oedipus: A Version of the Modern Stage, London: Macmillan and Co., […], →OCLC:
text: They recognised that their free-lay properties were just right for premises where there had to be easy access to underfloor cables or where office layouts needed to be readily changed without having to uplift the carpet every time.
ref: 1986, The Architectural Review, volume 180, page 82:
text: At the behest of the London Midland Region, the infrastructure was built with a capability for running at up to 110mph with conventional rolling stock, as well as the raising of speed limits - such as the 60mph over Shap summit uplifted to 80mph.
ref: 2020 April 8, David Clough, “How the West Coast wiring war was won”, in Rail, page 62:
glosses: To raise something or someone to a higher physical, social, moral, intellectual, spiritual or emotional level.
examples: text: —genetically uplifted the ancestors of the saurs, and culturally—at least—uplifted the kraken. We are used to thinking of these species as wise and ancient, which indeed they are, but the octopods are their 'Elder Race.'
ref: 2003, Ken MacLeod, Engine City, New York, N.Y.: Tor, →ISBN, page 79:
topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: To raise something or someone to a higher physical, social, moral, intellectual, spiritual or emotional level.
To raise (a nonsentient species) into sentience.
examples: text: A man who abused a Police Community Support Officer for being transgender has received an uplifted sentence at Mold Magistrates' Court... At Court the prosecutor applied for the sentence for the public order offence to be uplifted to reflect the hate crime aspect. This resulted in the Court imposing a greater penalty.
ref: 2020 January 29, “Transphobic hate crime results in increased sentence for Mold teenager”, in Crown Prosecution Service, London: Crown Prosecution Service, retrieved 30 Jan 2020:
topics: law
glosses: To aggravate; to increase.
raw_tags: of a penalty
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
lifestyle
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
tourism
transport
travel
glosses: To be accepted for carriage on a flight.
examples: text: In an affidavit supporting an application for a court order to uplift the child, a social worker said there were ongoing family violence issues between the baby's mother and father.
ref: 2019 May 9, “Taken by the state: Don't take my baby”, in Stuff:
glosses: To remove (a child) from a damaging home environment by a social welfare organization.
topics: law
glosses: To remove (a document) from its current possessor and take it into one's own possession.
examples: ref: 2017, “Is it Safe to Uplift this Patch?: An Empirical Study on Mozilla Firefox”, in 2017 IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME):
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
glosses: To backport.