What is the definition of lift?

Definitions for lift

  • verb - perform cosmetic surgery on someone's face
  • verb - remove from a surface; "the detective carefully lifted some fingerprints from the table"
  • verb - take off or away by decreasing; "lift the pressure"
  • verb - remove from a seedbed or from a nursery; "lift the tulip bulbs"
  • verb - remove (hair) by scalping
  • noun - a ride in a car; "he gave me a lift home"
  • noun - transportation of people or goods by air (especially when other means of access are unavailable)
  • verb - put an end to; "lift a ban"; "raise a siege"
  • verb - rise upward
  • verb - raise in rank or condition; "The new law lifted many people from poverty"
  • verb - invigorate or heighten; "lift my spirits"; "lift his ego"
  • noun - plastic surgery to remove wrinkles and other signs of aging from your face; an incision is made near the hair line and skin is pulled back and excess tissue is excised; "some actresses have more than one face lift"
  • verb - call to stop the hunt or to retire
  • verb - cancel officially; "He revoked the ban on smoking"; "lift an embargo"; "vacate a death sentence"
  • verb - make audible; "He lifted a war whoop"
  • noun - the act of giving temporary assistance
  • verb - take (root crops) out of the ground; "lift potatoes"
  • verb - fly people or goods to or from places not accessible by other means; "Food is airlifted into Bosnia"
  • verb - raise or haul up with or as if with mechanical help; "hoist the bicycle onto the roof of the car"
  • verb - take hold of something and move it to a different location; "lift the box onto the table"
  • verb - move upward; "The fog lifted"; "The smoke arose from the forest fire"; "The mist uprose from the meadows"
  • verb - move upwards; "lift one's eyes"
  • verb - raise from a lower to a higher position; "Raise your hands"; "Lift a load"
  • verb - make off with belongings of others
  • verb - take illegally; "rustle cattle"
  • verb - take without referencing from someone else's writing or speech; of intellectual property
  • verb - pay off (a mortgage)
  • verb - rise up; "The building rose before them"
  • noun - 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
  • noun - one of the layers forming the heel of a shoe or boot
  • noun - a device worn in a shoe or boot to make the wearer look taller or to correct a shortened leg
  • noun - a powered conveyance that carries skiers up a hill
  • noun - a wave that lifts the surface of the water or ground
  • noun - the event of something being raised upward; "an elevation of the temperature in the afternoon"; "a raising of the land resulting from volcanic activity"
  • noun - the component of the aerodynamic forces acting on an airfoil that opposes gravity
  • Pronounciation of lift

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    Synonyms for lift

    airlift face lifting nip and tuck ski lift cosmetic surgery elevation raise face lift rhytidectomy elevator raising heave facelift rhytidoplasty ski tow aerodynamic lift reverse vacate arise uprise cabbage snarf filch plagiarise face-lift elevate revoke repeal hoist move up get up purloin swipe nobble rear annul overturn wind go up bring up pinch hook rustle countermand rescind rise come up pilfer abstract sneak plagiarize

    Antonyms for lift

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    Holonyms for lift

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    Hypernyms for lift

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    Hyponyms for lift

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    Meronyms for lift

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    Sounds like lift

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