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transportation of people or goods by air (especially when other means of access are unavailable)

annul by recalling or rescinding; "He revoked the ban on smoking"; "lift an embargo"; "vacate a death sentence"

move upward; "The fog lifted"; "The smoke arose from the forest fire"; "The mist uprose from the meadows"

raise from a lower to a higher position; "Raise your hands"; "Lift a load"

perform cosmetic surgery on someone's face

the act of giving temporary assistance

a ride in a car; "he gave me a lift home"

one of the layers forming the heel of a shoe or boot

a device worn in a shoe or boot to make the wearer look taller or to correct a shortened leg

a powered conveyance that carries skiers up a hill

take without referencing from someone else's writing or speech; of intellectual property

invigorate or heighten; "lift my spirits"; "lift his ego"

a wave that lifts the surface of the water or ground

remove from a surface; "the detective carefully lifted some fingerprints from the table"

take off or away by decreasing; "lift the pressure"

remove from a seedbed or from a nursery; "lift the tulip bulbs"

remove (hair) by scalping

put an end to; "lift a ban"; "raise a siege"

rise upward, as from pressure or moisture; "The floor is lifting slowly"

call to stop the hunt or to retire, as of hunting dogs

make audible; "He lifted a war whoop"

take (root crops) out of the ground; "lift potatoes"

take hold of something and move it to a different location; "lift the box onto the table"

move upwards; "lift one's eyes"

take illegally; "rustle cattle"

pay off (a mortgage)

transportation of people or goods by air (especially when other means of access are unavailable)

annul by recalling or rescinding; "He revoked the ban on smoking"; "lift an embargo"; "vacate a death sentence"

move upward; "The fog lifted"; "The smoke arose from the forest fire"; "The mist uprose from the meadows"

raise from a lower to a higher position; "Raise your hands"; "Lift a load"

perform cosmetic surgery on someone's face

the act of giving temporary assistance

a ride in a car; "he gave me a lift home"

one of the layers forming the heel of a shoe or boot

a device worn in a shoe or boot to make the wearer look taller or to correct a shortened leg

a powered conveyance that carries skiers up a hill

take without referencing from someone else's writing or speech; of intellectual property

invigorate or heighten; "lift my spirits"; "lift his ego"

a wave that lifts the surface of the water or ground

The sky; the atmosphere; the firmament.

To move in a direction opposite to that of gravitation; to raise; to elevate; to bring up from a lower place to a higher; to upheave; sometimes implying a continued support or holding in the higher place; -- said of material things; as, to lift the foot or the hand; to lift a chair or a burden.

To bear; to support.

To steal; to carry off by theft (esp. cattle); as, to lift a drove of cattle.

To try to raise something; to exert the strength for raising or bearing.

To rise; to become or appear raised or elevated; as, the fog lifts; the land lifts to a ship approaching it.

To live by theft.

Act of lifting; also, that which is lifted.

The space or distance through which anything is lifted; as, a long lift.

Help; assistance, as by lifting; as, to give one a lift in a wagon.

That by means of which a person or thing lifts or is lifted

A hoisting machine; an elevator; a dumb waiter.

An exercising machine.

A rise; a degree of elevation; as, the lift of a lock in canals.

A lift gate. See Lift gate, below.

One of the steps of a cone pulley.

A layer of leather in the heel.

That portion of the vibration of a balance during which the impulse is given.

To raise, elevate, exalt, improve, in rank, condition, estimation, character, etc.; - often with up.

A rope leading from the masthead to the extremity of a yard below; - used for raising or supporting the end of the yard.

The sky; the atmosphere; the firmament.

To move in a direction opposite to that of gravitation; to raise; to elevate; to bring up from a lower place to a higher; to upheave; sometimes implying a continued support or holding in the higher place; -- said of material things; as, to lift the foot or the hand; to lift a chair or a burden.

To bear; to support.

To steal; to carry off by theft (esp. cattle); as, to lift a drove of cattle.

To try to raise something; to exert the strength for raising or bearing.

To rise; to become or appear raised or elevated; as, the fog lifts; the land lifts to a ship approaching it.

To live by theft.

Act of lifting; also, that which is lifted.

The space or distance through which anything is lifted; as, a long lift.

Help; assistance, as by lifting; as, to give one a lift in a wagon.

That by means of which a person or thing lifts or is lifted

A hoisting machine; an elevator; a dumb waiter.

An exercising machine.

A rise; a degree of elevation; as, the lift of a lock in canals.

One of the steps of a cone pulley.

A layer of leather in the heel.

That portion of the vibration of a balance during which the impulse is given.

To raise, elevate, exalt, improve, in rank, condition, estimation, character, etc.; - often with up.

A lift gate. See gate, below.

A rope leading from the masthead to the extremity of a yard below; - used for raising or supporting the end of the yard.

To raise to a higher point; place in a higher position; to exalt.

To exert strength in raising; to rise.

The act of raising to a higher point; high position; as, the proud lift of her head; aid; help; assistance; as, to give anyone a lift in carrying a load; a machine for carrying up or down an elevator.

To bring to a higher position: to elevate: to elate: to take and carry away.

To try to raise.

Act of lifting: that which is to be raised: that which assists to lift.

Act of raising; contrivance for raising.

To raise; exalt.

To raise; elevate; exalt.

To rise, or appear to rise, as mist.

The act of lifting; that which is raised or hoisted.

That which lifts or assists in lifting; an elevator, a hook for raising a window-sash, etc.

n. Act of raising or lifting;— assistance in lifting, and hence assistance in general an elevator; a lifter;— a rise; a degree of elevation.