Word Finder - lifting

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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.

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The action or process by which something is lifted; elevation

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Weightlifting; a form of exercise in which weights are lifted

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• weightlifting

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Plastic surgery for tightening facial tissues and improving the facial appearance

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• facelift

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Theft.

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A certain operation on a measure space; see lifting theory.

Maybe lifting had nothing to do with it.

Lifting the covers, he climbed into bed and moved close to her.

He asked, lifting the creamer.

Two obeyed, lifting her off the floor and carrying her.

She turned toward the unit lifting her arms in delight.

Machines used for lifting only are not called cranes, but winches, lifts or hoists, while the term elevator or conveyor is commonly given to appliances which continuously, not in separate loads, move materials like grain or coal in a vertical, horizontal or diagonal direction.

In the second class there are, in addition to the lifting motion, two horizontal movements at right angles to one another.

The net effective work of lifting that can be performed by a man turning a handle may be taken, for intermittent work, as being on an average about 5000 foot-lb per minute; this is equivalent to 1 ton lifted about 24 ft.

This is effected by slinging the load to an eye or Lifting hook, and elevating the hook vertically.

This second method forms the basis of the lifting gear in all hydraulic cranes.

In this case the chain is not coiled, but simply passes over the lifting wheel, the free end hanging loose.

The hydraulic crane has a great advantage in possessing an almost ideal brake, for by simply throttling the exhaust from the lifting cylinder the speed of descent can be regulated within very wide limits and with perfect safety.

In electric cranes a useful method is to arrange the connexions so that the lifting motor acts as a dynamo, and, driven by the energy of the falling load, generates a current which is converted into heat by being passed through resistances.

Much attention has been paid to the improvement of the mechanical details of the lifting and other motions of cranes, and in important installations the gearing is now usually made of cast steel.

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.

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.

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.

The revolving part is made with two side frames of cast iron or steel plates, and to these the lifting gear is attached.

Remove the faded flowers of gladioli and allow the foliage to die back fully before lifting the corms to store over the winter.

Things like going to the shops, which would in practice be perfectly manageable with relatively modest amounts of lifting, then become impossible.

The hydraulic lifting cylinders are placed inside the revolving steel mast or post, and the cabin for the driver FIG.

Transporters can only move the load to any point on a vertical surface (generally a plane surface); they have a lifting Trans- motion and a movement of translation.

The evaporation which is associated with transpiration is no doubt another, but by themselves they are insufficient to explain the process of lifting water to the tops of tall trees.

At this time came his sudden lifting to the highest rank in the peerage.

They are very easy to cultivate and do not require lifting.

He was represented in works of art as carrying off the body of the dead Patroclus or lifting up his hand to slay Helen.

With suitable arrangements of iron and coil and a sufficiently strong current, the intensity of the temporary magnetization may be very high, and electromagnets capable of lifting weights of several tons are in daily use in engineering works.

Mort's dock, another large dry dock, is at Mort's Bay, Balmain, while there are five floating docks with a combined lifting power of 3895 tons, and the three patent slips in Mort's Bay can raise between them 3040 tons.

In such mines the mineral was carried out on the backs of men, and the water was laboriously raised by a long line of suction-pumps, operated by hand, each lifting the water a few feet only.

It can be considerably shortened, the two vessels A and B brought more closely together, and the somewhat objectionable india-rubber tube be dispensed with, if we connect the air-space in B with an ordinary air pump, and by means of it do the greater part of the sucking and the whole of the lifting work.

The three books on Mechanics survive in an Arabic translation which, however, bears a title" On the lifting of heavy objects."This corresponds exactly to Barulcus, and it is probable that Barulcus and Mechanics were only alternative titles for one and the same work.

This flying machine consisted of a light frame covered with strong canvas and provided with two large oars or wings moving on a horizontal axis, and so arranged that the upstroke met with no resistance while the downstroke provided the lifting power.

Generally, in addition, wire cables are stretched across the span, from which lifting tackle is suspended.

In fact, the region is dominated by three ranges of nearly equal altitude, all lifting many of their peaks above the snow-line.

The needles are put in place one by one against the raised frames, or trestles, by a derrick on a barge lifting them by their ring, whilst a man on the foot-bridge, taking hold of the eye at the top, arranges them in position close together.

This can be done by lifting up and throwing back the left half of the mantle-skirt as is represented in fig.

Lifting up his voice against the preacher's doctine, he declared that it is not by the Scripture alone, but by the divine light by which the Scriptures were given, that doctrines ought to be judged.

To facilitate this mechanical lifting, gear is provided which is readily controlled, and can raise or lower the periscope at a speed approaching 25 ft.

The best way of performing transplantation depends greatly on the size of the trees, the soil in which they grow, and the mechanical appliances made use of in lifting and transporting them.

On the same principle the use of small pots to confine the roots, root-pruning and lifting the roots, and exposing them to the sun, as is done in the case of the vine in some countries, are resorted to.

In this house the principal part of the roof is a fixture, ventilation being provided for by small lifting sashes against the back wall, and by the upright front sashes being hung on a pivot so as to swing outwards on the lower side.

In transplanting trees all the roots which may have become bruised or broken in the process of lifting should be cut clean away behind the broken part, as they then more readily strike out new roots from the cut parts.

Others, as the asters, spread rapidly; those possessing this habit should be taken up every second or third year, and, a nice patch being selected for replanting from the outer portions, the rest may be either thrown aside, or reserved for increase; the portion selected for replanting should be returned to its place, the ground having meanwhile been well broken up. Some plants are apt to decay at the base, frequently from exposure caused by the lifting process going on during their growth; these should be taken up annually in early autumn, the soil refreshed, and the plants returned to their places, care being taken to plant them sufficiently deep.

Cabbage, cauliflower and lettuce plants that are in frames should be regularly ventilated by lifting the sash on warm days, and on the approach of very cold weather they should be covered with straw mats or shutters.

We see how powerful must be the lifting effect of the rising gases when we reflect that their velocity in a too ft.

The advantage of the " reversing " system is that it avoids lifting the piece from below to above the middle roll, and again lowering it, which is rather difficult because the white-hot piece cannot be guided directly by hand, but must be moved by means of hooks, tongs, or even complex mechanism.

F, Piston-rod for lifting driving it down.

The bearings for receiving these trunnions are V-shaped; the V on one side is fixed, while the other is cut through and can be narrowed or made wider, thus lifting or lowering the trunnion by means of two capstan-headed screws.

Below the piston of the upper cylinder is an annular space E (surrounding the common piston rod) with a capacity equal to the maximum displacement of the liftram, while the corresponding annular area C of the piston of the lower cylinder is just large enough when subjected to the working water pressure to enable the work of lifting the net load to be done and any friction to be overcome.

Here again, since the intensity of the pressure on A becomes greater as it descends owing to the increased head, the apparent increase of weight of the lift-ram as it rises is automatically balanced; water from the high-pressure system is admitted down the hollow ram B and does the work of lifting the live load.