lift

Meaning

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)

raise

elevate

enhance

face lifting

aerodynamic lift

add to

go up to

raise one’s head

rate of interest

rid of

help up

build house

float away

fold over

move up and down

pry open

rise and fall

raise prices

shearlegs

step-up

waste

upward movement

commit larceny

raise up the top of a castle

air transportation

bank withdrawal

outcall

succourer

electric lift

delivery lift

electric elevator

head of delivery

passenger lift

up beat

nipping fork

become dispelled

gain in elevation

give a boost to

tube clamp

clivator

raising gear

electrical lift

lifting gearing

boost up

extirpate

heave up

offer to

Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/lɪft/

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)).