Meaning

• 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
• Noun