Word Finder - lifts

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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.

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Air.

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The sky; the heavens; firmament; atmosphere.

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.

The property runs a free shuttle to the lifts.

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.

When a combination of signals has been received and the armatures have taken up their respective positions corresponding to the transmitting keyboard, certain mechanism in the receiver translates the position of the five armatures into a mechanical movement which lifts the paper tape against a type-wheel and prints the corresponding letter.

The conditions permit of the circulation of the alternating currents of low periodicity, which are used for operating the bells, but in respect of the battery the circuit is open until the subscriber lifts the receiver, when the hook switch, thus released, joins the transmitter with one winding of an induction coil in series across the circuit.

When the railway lies below the surface level the bulk of the offices are often placed on a bridge spanning the lines, access being given to the platforms by staircases or lifts, and similarly when the railway is at a high level the offices may be arranged under the lines.

The increased loading space required in the sheds is obtained by multiplying the number and the length of lines and platforms; sometimes also there are short sidings, cut into the platforms at right angles to the lines, in which wagons are placed by the aid of wagon turn-tables, and sometimes the wagons are dealt with on two floors, being raised or lowered bodily from the ground level by lifts.

This type has the advantage of economy in first construction, there being the minimum amount of material to be excavated, and no interference during construction with street traffic or subsurface structures; it has, however, the disadvantage of the cost of o p eration of lifts at the stations.

This system has the advantage of the greatest convenience in operation, no lifts being required, since the distance from the street surface to the station platform is about 12 to 15 ft.; it has the disadvantages, however, of necessitating the tearing up of the street surface during construction, and the readjustment of sewer, water, gas and electric mains and other subsurface structures, and of having the gradients partially dependent on the surface topography.

For the rest his classification demands no particular remark; but that in a work of this kind he had the courage to recognize, for instance, such a fact as the essential difference between swallows and swifts lifts him considerably above the crowd of other ornithological writers of his time.

Above the cliff west of the old town is a broad promenade called the Lees, commanding a notable view of the channel and connected by lifts with the shore below.

Deeplevel electric railways (" tubes "), communicating with the surface by lifts, were already familiar in London.

Centrifugal pumps, constructed with several stages or sets of vanes, and suitable for high lifts, have been introduced for mine service.

In a refinery in Nova Scotia a system has been introduced by which a travelling crane above the bag filters lifts up any head bodily with all its bags attached, and runs it to the mud and washing tanks at the end of the battery, while another similar crane drops another head, fitted with fresh bags, into the place of the one just removed.

This personeity lifts the majority of earthly phenomena out of the merely physical world and places them in the spirit world.

The reverse movement of D lifts up the upper die and the collar drops simultaneously so that its upper surface is level with the face of the lower die on which the finished coin lies.

The circuit of the electro-magnet is made and broken by the vibration of the fork in different ways - say, by a wire bridge attached to the lower prong which dips into and lifts out of two mercury cups.

The end lifts which transfer the weight of the bridge to the piers when the span is closed consist of massive eccentrics having a throw of 4 in.

Thus, for the first time in the world's history, the ultimate problem of faith is based on the relation of God to the individual believer; and this problem Jeremiah is compelled to face mainly in relation to his own personality, to assure himself that his own faith is a trLic, possession and lifts him above all the calamities that assail him, in spite of the hopeless ruin of his nation.

The child-labour law of 1909 forbids the employment of children under eighteen years of age in blast furnaces, tanneries, quarries, in managing elevator lifts or hoisting machines, in oiling dangerous machinery while in motion, at switch tending, as brakesmen, firemen, engineers, motormen and in other positions of similar character.

The special cable T is now tightened again, and lifts the bottom of the bucket so as both to close it and to close the space between J and K, by allowing J to rise back to its initial place.

Here the charging machine lifts one box at a time from its car, pushes it through the momentarily opened furnace door, and empties the metal upon the hearth of the furnace by inverting the box, which it then replaces on its car.

Since the introduction of deep-level electric railways in London and elsewhere, hydraulic passenger lifts on a large scale have been brought into use for conveying passengers up and down from the street level to the underground stations.

Ordinary reciprocating pumps were commonly employed, and also air lifts and similar devices for raising great quantities of water to a height of from 20 to so ft.

Of these, 14 in number, the central market, close to the Alexander-platz station of the city railway with which it is connected by an admirable service of lifts for the rapid unloading of goods, is the finest.

The dimensions of the exterior piers ceased to control the height of the building, which was limited alone by the possibility of securing adequate foundations, and by a consideration of the amount of floor space which could be devoted without too great loss to a system of passenger lifts of sufficient capacity to afford speedy access to all parts of the building.

The telescopic form consists of two or more lifts which slide in one another, and may be described as a single lift holder encircled by other cylinders of slightly larger diameter, but of about the same length.

In the year 1892 the largest existing gasholder was built at the East Greenwich works of the South Metropolitan Gas Company; it has six lifts, its diameter is 293 ft., and when filled with gas stands 180 ft.

But, in so far as it claims to deal with special revelation, it lifts itself out of the circle of the sciences, and turns away from natural know 1 Other usages of O€oXoyla are the Divine nature of Christ (St John Chrysostom, quoted in Konstantinides' Greek Lexicon), Old and New Testaments (Theodoret, ib.); Greek theology and Mosaic or revealed theology (Theodoret).

The Talas-tau, sometimes known as the Urtak-tau, while the name of Ala-tau is also extended to cover it, has an average elevation of 14,000-15,000 ft., but lifts its snow-capped summits to 15,750 ft.; it is crossed by passes at 8000-10,650 ft.

It rises abruptly from the desert and lifts its snowy peaks to altitudes of 15,000-16,000 ft., separating the river Syr-darya from the river Zarafshan.

In some cases, instead of the entrance being at the sides or ends, it is at the top, all goods being raised to the top floor in lifts and lowered by lifts into the rooms. With good machinery the cost of raising is not great, and is probably equalled by the saving in refrigeration, since the rooms hold the heavy cold air as a glass holds water.

Then it lowers its tail over its head and gently lifts you with its stinging barb.

They incorporated full air conditioning, atriums, glass wall climber lifts, fully accessible floors, basement and semi basement car parks.

Air lifts were pieces of ancillary equipment for lifting melted bitumen up to the mixer on top of the plant.

Secure, 24 hour concierge entry from Park Lane leads to three lifts.

Glazed express lifts rise vertically at the northern end of the plaza to connect the rail services with the arrivals and departures concourses.

He lifts the mother dibble in both hands, holds it across his head, its point toward the right.

The ship appeared to be very disabled friendly with level access to all areas, disabled friendly with level access to all areas, disabled toilets and lifts serving all decks.

It lifts the floodgates to the future growth of telecommunications as the vehicle for a host of new ICT applications and innovations.

Take them up on the chair lifts and then freewheel and scoot down the tracks and trails back to the village.

The ship appeared to be very disabled friendly with level access to all areas, disabled toilets and lifts serving all decks.

These include giving lifts to hospitals or doctors ' surgeries, or even just for a social visit for someone who is normally housebound.

Access, including lifts to the upper floors, will be dramatically improved.

Neither group is catered for by coaches with wheelchair lifts.

Guests have free use of heated ski lockers near the main lifts.

A entirely man-made base of about 20 cms covers 4 runs with 5 or 6 lifts open.

No steel and concrete minimalism here, but marble and chrome and a bank of lifts that whisked us to the fifth floor.

Although the lifts seem limited, they lead to a choice of 16 runs down the wooded mountainside.

The lifts at Euston were broken - much muttering from other travelers.