Word Finder - lift

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An act of lifting or raising.

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The act of transporting someone in a vehicle; a ride; a trip.

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He gave me a lift to the bus station.

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Mechanical device for vertically transporting goods or people between floors in a building; an elevator.

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Take the lift to the fourth floor.

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An upward force, such as the force that keeps aircraft aloft.

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(measurement) The difference in elevation between the upper pool and lower pool of a waterway, separated by lock.

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A thief.

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The lifting of a dance partner into the air.

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Permanent construction with a built-in platform that is lifted vertically.

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An improvement in mood.

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The amount or weight to be lifted.

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What's the maximum lift of this crane?

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The space or distance through which anything is lifted.

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A rise; a degree of elevation.

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the lift of a lock in canals

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A liftgate.

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A rope leading from the masthead to the extremity of a yard below, and used for raising or supporting the end of the yard.

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One of the steps of a cone pulley.

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(shoemaking) A layer of leather in the heel of a shoe.

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That portion of the vibration of a balance during which the impulse is given.

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To raise or rise.

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The fog eventually lifted, leaving the streets clear.

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To steal.

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To source directly without acknowledgement; to plagiarise.

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To arrest (a person).

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To remove (a ban, restriction, etc.).

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To alleviate, to lighten (pressure, tension, stress, etc.)

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To cause to move upwards.

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To lift weights; to weight-lift.

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She lifts twice a week at the gym.

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To try to raise something; to exert the strength for raising or bearing.

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To elevate or improve in rank, condition, etc.; often with up.

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To bear; to support.

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To collect, as moneys due; to raise.

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To transform (a function) into a corresponding function in a different context.

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To buy a security or other asset previously offered for sale.

That I did not lift my arm a moment later does not prove that I could have abstained from lifting it then.

Lift the far side of the rock toward you.

Can I lift my arm?

I can hardly walk let alone lift a weapon.

She gave blond curls a quick lift with her fingers.

This type is usually fitted with a very high jib, so as to lift goods in and out of high-sided vessels.

The limit of speed of lift of hand cranes has already been mentioned; for steam jib cranes average practice is represented by the.

To convince myself of this I do not lift it the next moment.

At 14 months, she was already getting difficult to lift.

He had warned her not to lift anything — ordered her not to, in fact.

Princess Mary could not lift her head, she was weeping.

Tushin, Tushin, don't you remember, who gave you a lift at Schon Grabern?

After the cry of the hounds came the deep tones of the wolf call from Daniel's hunting horn; the pack joined the first three hounds and they could be heard in full cry, with that peculiar lift in the note that indicates that they are after a wolf.

In fact, he had given her strict orders not to lift anything.

Lift tickets were purchased, at prices far higher than the last time Dean had skied.

You can tell the poisonous ones because they lift their heads out of the water while they swim.

The lifting speed of electric travellers is generally less, because the lift is generally much shorter, and may in ordinary cases be taken as V=3+85/T.

She could not lift her face, but only pressed it to the cold braiding of his hussar's jacket.

He was not meditating, but only deferring the moment of making the effort to lift those legs up and turn over on the bed.

Damian struggled to lift the woman at his feet then carried her towards a tree.

On arriving at a certain height the lift ceases and the jenny is released, and by the continued pull of the rope, it runs up the jib; on arriving at an adjustable stop, the jenny is again locked, and the load can be lowered out; the hook can then be raised, when the jenny is automatically unlocked, and on paying out the rope the jenny gravitates to its first position, when the load is lowered and the cycle repeated.

For high heads the water cylinders, valves and valve chambers are specially constructed to withstand heavy pressures, water being sometimes raised in a single lift to heights of more than 2000 ft.

She was not at all heavy, so the Wizard and Dorothy managed to lift her gently to the ground.

Sonya tried to lift her head to answer but could not, and hid her face still deeper in the bed.

When the Emperor's health was drunk, Pierre, lost in thought, did not rise or lift his glass.

Its furry tail stood up firm and round as a plume, its bandy legs served it so well that it would often gracefully lift a hind leg and run very easily and quickly on three legs, as if disdaining to use all four.

When the tines get full of hay, you lift it.

Lift the back-left tile on the patio and you'll find a key.

She tested her body, dismayed when her limbs felt too heavy to lift.

He talked to me as if I were a real person, not just a skirt he was plotting to lift.

Finally he released one hand and lifted it to her face, crooking a finger under her chin to lift it.

He waited for the barrier before him to lift and then strode out.

The two men first boarded chair lift number ten and ten and a half minutes later were eighteen hundred feet higher than Fred and Donnie, at nearly eleven thousand feet elevation.

Lift us over the ravine!

When he reached in to lift her out, she pushed his hands away.

Immobilized, fear rose within her as she watched the Black God lift Darian's bloody form from the ground.

He appeared to be trying to lift the massive structure.

Candice had started to lift her hand, but it froze as she stared at him.

He watched her lift a bale of hay and step up on the pile.

He indicated the Other with a lift of his chin.

Naked crags, when they do appear, lift themselves from a sea of green, and a tropical vegetation, quite Malaysian in character, covers everything.

This method of working is very suitable for electric dock-side cranes of capacities up to about 5 or 7 tons, and for overhead travellers where the height of lift is moderate.

A dock-side crane unloading cargo with high lifts following one another in rapid succession will require a higher load factor than a workshop traveller with a very short lift and only a very occasional maximum load; and a traveller with a very long longitudinal travel will require a higher load factor for the travelling motor than for the lifting motor.

In addition to the brakes on the lifting gear of cranes it is found necessary, especially in quickrunning electric cranes, to provide a brake on the subsidiary motions, and also devices to stop the motor at the end of the lift or travel, so as to prevent over-running.

It was an act of adoration or thanksgiving, much longer in Eastern than in Western rituals, but in both classes of rituals beginning with the form" Lift up your hearts,"and ending with the Ter Sanctus or Trisagion.

For Amos and Isaiah were able to single out those loftier spiritual and ethical elements which lay implicit in Mosaism and to lift them into their due place of prominence.

Reid has a variety of names for the principles which, by their presence, lift us out of subjectivity into perception.

If an attempt be made by any enemy to lift the lid, the spider seizes its inner side with his fangs and striking his claws into the walls of the burrow offers the greatest possible resistance to the efforts of the intruder.

Moreover, the height of the lift is conditioned by the atmospheric pressure, for this is the driving force; and since this equals 34 ft.

Mr. Keith comes every afternoon at four o'clock, and gives me a "friendly lift" over the rough stretches of road, over which every student must go.