Definitions For Lift

noun

• The act of raising something
• A ride in a car
• Transportation of people or goods by air (especially when other means of access are unavailable)
• 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
• The act of giving temporary assistance
• 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
• 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
• A wave that lifts the surface of the water or ground
• The event of something being raised upward
• The component of the aerodynamic forces acting on an airfoil that opposes gravity
• To move (something or someone) to a higher position
• To rise up from the ground or some other surface
• To move (someone or something) to a higher condition or position

verb

• Perform cosmetic surgery on someone's face
• Remove from a surface
• Take off or away by decreasing
• Remove from a seedbed or from a nursery
• Remove (hair) by scalping
• Put an end to
• Rise upward, as from pressure or moisture
• Raise in rank or condition
• Invigorate or heighten
• Call to stop the hunt or to retire, as of hunting dogs
• Cancel officially
• Make audible
• Take (root crops) out of the ground
• Fly people or goods to or from places not accessible by other means
• Raise or haul up with or as if with mechanical help
• Take hold of something and move it to a different location
• Move upward
• Move upwards
• Raise from a lower to a higher position
• Make off with belongings of others
• Take illegally
• Take without referencing from someone else's writing or speech; of intellectual property
• Pay off (a mortgage)
• Rise up