lift
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: broadcasting
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transport
Etymology: From Middle English liften, lyften, from Old Norse lypta (“to lift, air”, literally “to raise in the air”), from Proto-Germanic *luftijaną (“to raise in the air”), related to *luftuz (“roof, air”), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *lewp- (“to peel, break off, damage”) or from a root meaning roof (see *luftuz). Cognate with Danish and Norwegian Bokmål løfte (“to lift”), Norwegian Nynorsk and Swedish lyfta (“to lift”), German lüften (“to air, lift”), Old English lyft (“air”). See above. 1851 for the noun sense "a mechanical device for vertical transport".
(To steal): For this sense Cleasby suggests perhaps a relation to the root of Gothic 𐌷𐌻𐌹𐍆𐍄𐌿𐍃 (hliftus) "thief", cognate with Latin cleptus and Greek κλέπτω (kléptō)). But perhaps simply from the idea of removing an item from a surface.
Inflected forms:
form: lifts
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: lifting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: lifted
pos: verb
tags: past
form: lift
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
past
rare
regional
form: lifted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: lift
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
participle
past
rare
regional
form: yleft
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
participle
past
form: lifts
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To raise or rise.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: The fog eventually lifted, leaving the streets clear.
You never lift a finger to help me!
c. 1490, Of Penance and Confession be master Jhon Yrlandː
Liftand (lifting) thy hands and thy eyen to Heaven.
Their walk had continued not more than ten minutes when they crossed a creek by a wooden bridge and came to a row of mean houses standing flush with the street. At the door of one, an old black woman had stooped to lift a large basket, piled high with laundered clothes.
A long, late-night tracking shot from one end of the Neon Boot bar to another actually tracks along the surface of the bar itself—and when there is a drunk passed out on the bar, the camera simply lifts up and flies over him, then continues on its route.
Once it [a snowdrop variety] became established, some bulbs were lifted and passed on to be chipped (i.e. cut into small pieces and grown on).
gloss: To raise or rise.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
transitive
examples: Graham secured victory with five minutes left, coolly lifting the ball over Asmir Begovic.
gloss: To steal.
pos: verb
tags: slang
transitive
examples: Kamal is out with twenty men to raise the Border side,
And he has lifted the Colonel's mare that is the Colonel's pride.
“Wilbert Cream is a ... what's the word?” I referred to the letter. “A kleptomaniac […] Does any thought occur to you?” “It most certainly does. I am thinking of your uncle's collection of old silver.” “Me, too.” “It presents a grave temptation to the unhappy young man.” “I don't know that I'd call him unhappy. He probably thoroughly enjoys lifting the stuff.”
gloss: To source directly without acknowledgement; to plagiarise.
pos: verb
tags: slang
transitive
examples: Based on a similarity across a range of Anglo-Indian entries in these three dictionaries, it appears that (along with other lexis) Barrère and Leland (1898) copied this entry from Hotten (1864), who had in turn lifted it directly from Stocqueler (1848).
gloss: To arrest (a person).
pos: verb
tags: slang
transitive
examples: Maybe the police lifted him and he's in Castlereagh [Interrogation Centre] because he'd been lifted three or four times previously and took to Castlereagh. They used to come in and raid the house and take him away.
gloss: To remove (a ban, restriction, etc.).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To alleviate, to lighten (pressure, tension, stress, etc.)
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The Gunners boss has been heavily criticised for his side's poor start to the Premier League season but this result helps lift the pressure.
gloss: To disperse, to break up.
pos: verb
tags: Scotland
especially
intransitive
examples: About three o'clock in the mornin', the company began to lift, and the room to get thinner and thinner.
Others thought the bank [of clouds] would "lift," and that it would be a fine "kwait nicht"; and as they were generally unwilling to lose a night's fishing, most of the crews resolved to proceed to sea, though not without serious misgivings[…]
But Miss Macnee had one important move in reserve. She saw the company was about to 'lift,' as she was pleased to term it, and this move must be made before they separated.
"Since when, Willy?" Margrédel led him. "Since the regiment lifted." […] She knew that [the person] had left with his regiment.
gloss: To lift weights; to weight-lift.
pos: verb
tags: informal
intransitive
examples: She lifts twice a week at the gym.
gloss: To try to raise something; to exert the strength for raising or bearing.
pos: verb
examples: strained by lifting at a weight too heavy
gloss: To elevate or improve in rank, condition, etc.; often with up.
pos: verb
examples: The Roman virtues lift up mortal man.
being lifted up with pride
gloss: To bear; to support.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
examples: Th' earth him underneath
Did grone, as feeble so great load to lift.
gloss: To collect, as moneys due; to raise.
pos: verb
gloss: Given morphisms f and g with the same target: To produce a morphism which the given morphism factors through (i.e. a morphism h such that f=g∘h; cf. lift n.etymology 1, noun 19)
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: Given morphisms f and g with the same target: To produce a morphism which the given morphism factors through (i.e. a morphism h such that f=g∘h; cf. lift n.etymology 1, noun 19)
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Finally, we can lift a partial function into a regular (total) function that returns an Option or a Some(value) when the partial function is defined for the input argument or None when it isn't.
gloss: To buy a security or other asset previously offered for sale.
pos: verb
gloss: To take (hounds) off the existing scent and move them to another spot.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: I lifted the hounds (hoping to catch the leading ones there) to the far side of Hallaton Thorns.
gloss: An act of lifting or raising.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The act of transporting someone in a vehicle; a ride; a trip.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
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.
gloss: A mechanical device for vertically transporting goods or people between floors in a building.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
India
New-Zealand
UK
countable
uncountable
examples: 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.
gloss: A mechanical device for raising vehicles for service, so that it is easier for a mechanic to get beneath them.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: An upward force; especially, the force (generated by wings, rotary wings, or airfoils) that keeps aircraft aloft.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The difference in elevation between the upper pool and lower pool of a waterway, separated by lock.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A thief.
pos: noun
tags: countable
historical
slang
uncountable
examples: 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.
gloss: The lifting of a dance partner into the air.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Permanent construction with a built-in platform that is lifted vertically.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: An improvement in mood.
pos: noun
tags: countable
figuratively
uncountable
examples: 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.
gloss: The amount or weight to be lifted.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: What's the maximum lift of this crane?
gloss: The space or distance through which anything is lifted.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A rise; a degree of elevation.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: the lift of a lock in canals
gloss: A liftgate.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A rope leading from the masthead to the extremity of a yard below, and used for raising or supporting the end of the yard.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: One of the steps of a cone pulley.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A layer of leather in the heel of a shoe.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: That portion of the vibration of a balance during which the impulse is given.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: some measure the total lift and others only the lift on one side, a quantity which is not exactly half of the total lift
gloss: 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).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 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))
gloss: A shorter extract from a commercial/advertisement, able to be used on its own.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: escalator
Derived words: airlift
code-lift
forelift
liftable
lift a finger
lift all boats
lift and separate
lift and shift
lift down
lifting
lift off
lift oneself up by one's bootstraps
lift oneself up by one's boot-tags
lift oneself up by one's own bootstraps
lift oneself up by one's own boot-tags
lift oneself up by one's own waistbands
lift one's game
lift someone's spirits
lift the bar
lift the lid
lift up
lift-up
outlift
relift
shoplift
uplift
aerial lift
arse lift
ass lift
backlift
bike lift
boat lift
boatlift
booklift
Brazilian butt lift
breastlift
browlift
butt lift
button lift
center of lift
centre of lift
chairlift
cliff lift
counterpoise-lift
cowlift
deadlift
draglift
eyelift
eye lift
facelift
faith-lift
fireman's lift
forklift
give someone a lift
gondola lift
gum lift
hairlift
haylift
heavy lift
heel lift
high-lift device
inclined lift
incline lift
lash lift
liftback
liftboy
lift bridge
lift car
lift club
lift girl
liftless
liftline
lift lockdown
liftman
lift music
lift net
lift-off
liftover
lift pass
lift pump
lift scheme
liftshaft
lift shaft
lift surfing
lift-to-drag ratio
lift truck
manlift
man lift
necklift
noselift
platter lift
Poma lift
race lift
rook lift
scissor lift
sealift
service lift
ship lift
shoe lift
ski lift
skylift
stairlift
stair lift
surface lift
tail lift
thumb a lift
topping lift
trooplift
turbolift
vertical-lift bridge
vertical lift module
voice lift
wheelchair lift
Translations:
lang: Afrikaans
word: oplig
lang: Albanian
word: ngre
lang: Southern Altai
word: кӧдӱрер
roman: ködürer
lang: Arabic
word: رَفَعَ
roman: rafaʕa
lang: Arabic
word: رفع
roman: rafaʕ
lang: Arabic
word: رفع
roman: rafaʕ
lang: Arabic
word: شال
roman: šāl
lang: Assamese
word: দাঙা
roman: daṅa
lang: Assamese
word: উঠোৱা
roman: uthüa
lang: Assamese
word: তোলা
roman: tüla
lang: Assamese
word: দঙা
roman: doṅa
lang: Assamese
word: উঠোৱা
roman: uthüa
lang: Assamese
word: তোলা
roman: tüla
lang: Asturian
word: alzar
lang: Azerbaijani
word: qaldırmaq
lang: Azerbaijani
word: qalxızmaq
lang: Belarusian
word: падніма́ць
roman: padnimácʹ
lang: Belarusian
word: падня́ць
roman: padnjácʹ
lang: Bulgarian
word: вдигам
roman: vdigam
lang: Bulgarian
word: повдигам
roman: povdigam
lang: Catalan
word: alçar
lang: Catalan
word: aixecar
lang: Cebuano
word: aswat
lang: Cebuano
word: baswat
lang: Cebuano
word: hangwat
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 举
roman: jǔ
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 抬
roman: tái
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 揚 /扬
roman: yáng
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 拿起
roman: náqǐ
lang: Crimean Tatar
word: kötermek
lang: Czech
word: zvednout
lang: Czech
word: zdvihnout
lang: Czech
word: zvedat
lang: Czech
word: zdvihat
lang: Dalmatian
word: alzur
lang: Danish
word: løfte
lang: Danish
word: hæve
lang: Danish
word: ophæve
lang: Dutch
word: opheffen
lang: Dutch
word: rijzen
lang: Dutch
word: heffen
lang: Esperanto
word: levi
lang: Finnish
word: nostaa
lang: Finnish
word: nousta
lang: French
word: lever
lang: Friulian
word: jevâ
lang: Georgian
word: აწევა
roman: ac̣eva
lang: Georgian
word: ატანა
roman: aṭana
lang: Georgian
word: აყვანა
roman: aq̇vana
lang: German
word: heben
lang: German
word: anheben
lang: Greek
word: ανυψώνω
roman: anypsóno
lang: Greek
word: σηκώνω
roman: sikóno
lang: Ancient Greek
word: αἴρω
roman: aírō
lang: Ancient Greek
word: βαστάζω
roman: bastázō
lang: Ancient Greek
word: ἀείρω
roman: aeírō
lang: Paraguayan Guarani
word: mopu'ã
lang: Hungarian
word: emel
lang: Ido
word: levar
lang: Indonesian
word: angkat
lang: Ingrian
word: nostaa
lang: Ingrian
word: ylentää
lang: Interlingua
word: levar
lang: Irish
word: tóg
lang: Italian
word: alzare
lang: Italian
word: levare
lang: Kabuverdianu
word: isa
lang: Khmer
word: លើក
roman: ləək
lang: Kumyk
word: гётермек
roman: götermek
lang: Northern Kurdish
word: hildan
lang: Lao
word: ຍົກ
roman: nyok
lang: Latgalian
word: ceļt
lang: Latin
word: tollō
lang: Latvian
word: celt
lang: Lithuanian
word: kélti
lang: Lombard
word: alzà
lang: Luxembourgish
word: hiewen
lang: Macedonian
word: крева
roman: kreva
lang: Macedonian
word: дига
roman: diga
lang: Malagasy
word: manandratra
lang: Malay
word: angkat
lang: Māori
word: tiraki
lang: Māori
word: hāpai
lang: Māori
word: hiki
lang: Māori
word: huataki
lang: Māori
word: rangahua
lang: Māori
word: kōranga
lang: Norman
word: êl'ver
lang: Norwegian
word: løfte
lang: Norwegian
word: heve
lang: Occitan
word: auçar
lang: Old English
word: hebban
lang: Old Saxon
word: hebbian
lang: Polish
word: podnosić
lang: Polish
word: podnieść
lang: Polish
word: dźwigać
lang: Polish
word: dźwignąć
lang: Polish
word: wznosić
lang: Polish
word: wznieść
lang: Polish
word: unosić
lang: Polish
word: unieść
lang: Portuguese
word: elevar
lang: Portuguese
word: erguer
lang: Portuguese
word: alçar
lang: Portuguese
word: levantar
lang: Quechua
word: huq'ariy
lang: Romanian
word: ridica
lang: Russian
word: поднима́ть
roman: podnimátʹ
lang: Russian
word: подня́ть
roman: podnjátʹ
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: tog
lang: Slovak
word: zdvihnúť
lang: Slovak
word: zodvihnúť
lang: Slovene
word: dvigniti
lang: Sotho
word: phahamisa
lang: Spanish
word: levantar
lang: Spanish
word: subir
lang: Spanish
word: soliviar
lang: Spanish
word: ercer
lang: Swedish
word: lyfta
lang: Thai
word: ยก
roman: yók
lang: Tibetan
word: བཀྱགས
roman: bkyags
lang: Tibetan
word: བཏེགས
roman: btegs
lang: Tocharian B
word: täl-
lang: Tok Pisin
word: liptimapim
lang: Turkish
word: yükseltmek
lang: Turkish
word: kaldırmak
lang: Ukrainian
word: підніма́ти
roman: pidnimáty
lang: Uzbek
word: ko’tarmoq
lang: Venetan
word: łevar
lang: Venetan
word: alsar
lang: Vietnamese
word: nâng
lang: Vietnamese
word: nhấc