lift

Verb

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

Noun

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

Noun

1. (Scotland, UK, dialectal, uncountable, usually) Air.
2. (Scotland, UK, dialectal, uncountable, usually) The sky; the heavens; firmament; atmosphere.

Pronounced as (IPA)

/lɪft/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: liften

Cognate with Danish: -

Cognate with Norwegian Bokmål: løfte

Cognate with Norwegian Nynorsk: -

Cognate with Swedish: lyfta

Cognate with German: lüften

Cognate with Old English: lyft

Cognate with Latin: cleptus

Inherited from Middle English: lifte

Inherited from Old English: lyft

Cognate with Old High German: luft

Cognate with German: Luft

Cognate with Dutch: lucht

Cognate with Old Norse: lopt

In summary

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)).

Synonyms

raise

elevate

elevator

🛗

heave

pick up

hoist

rise

carry

uplift

lift up

raise up

lever

get up

remove

arise

rear

ride

take

boost

go up

pinch

exalt

airlift

ascend

steal

help

heft

raising

pilfer

promote

take off

elevator

🛗

hold

pry

turn up

soar

stand up

swipe

facelift

abate

erect

end

🔚

lifting

elevation

levitate

hold up

bring up

purloin

move up

heighten

Translations

ascenseur

lever

levantar

soulever

heben

Aufzug

ascensor

🛗

ascensore

Lift

lift

alzar

alzare

Fahrstuhl

🛗

élever

winda

Sentences

Lift is also available .

The lift was operated by a pneumatic system .