lift

Significat

Verb

1. To raise or rise.
2. (slang) To steal.
3. (slang) To source directly without acknowledgement; to plagiarise.
4. (slang) To arrest (a person).
5. To remove (a ban, restriction, etc.).
6. To alleviate, to lighten (pressure, tension, stress, etc.)
7. to cause to move upwards.
8. (informal) To lift weights; to weight-lift.
9. To try to raise something; to exert the strength for raising or bearing.
10. To elevate or improve in rank, condition, etc.; often with up.
11. (obsolete) To bear; to support.
12. To collect, as moneys due; to raise.
13. To transform (a function) into a corresponding function in a different context.
14. To buy a security or other asset previously offered for sale.
15. To take (hounds) off the existing scent and move them to another spot.
16. 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; c.f. lift n.18)

Noun

1. An act of lifting or raising.
2. The act of transporting someone in a vehicle; a ride; a trip.
3. Mechanical device for vertically transporting goods or people between floors in a building.
4. An upward force; especially, the force (generated by wings, rotary wings, or airfoils) that keeps aircraft aloft.
5. The difference in elevation between the upper pool and lower pool of a waterway, separated by lock.
6. (slang) A thief.
7. The lifting of a dance partner into the air.
8. Permanent construction with a built-in platform that is lifted vertically.
9. An improvement in mood.
10. The amount or weight to be lifted.
11. The space or distance through which anything is lifted.
12. A rise; a degree of elevation.
13. A liftgate.
14. A rope leading from the masthead to the extremity of a yard below, and used for raising or supporting the end of the yard.
15. One of the steps of a cone pulley.
16. A layer of leather in the heel of a shoe.
17. That portion of the vibration of a balance during which the impulse is given.
18. 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).

Noun

1. Air.
2. The sky; the heavens; firmament; atmosphere.

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/lɪft/

Etimologia

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)).

Sents

The lift was operated by a pneumatic system .