Definition of Lift

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Definition of Lift

Lift

The sky; the atmosphere; the firmament.

To move in a direction opposite to that of gravitation; to raise; to elevate; to bring up from a lower place to a higher; to upheave; sometimes implying a continued support or holding in the higher place; -- said of material things; as, to lift the foot or the hand; to lift a chair or a burden.

To raise, elevate, exalt, improve, in rank, condition, estimation, character, etc.; -- often with up.

To bear; to support.

To collect, as moneys due; to raise.

To steal; to carry off by theft (esp. cattle); as, to lift a drove of cattle.

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

To rise; to become or appear raised or elevated; as, the fog lifts; the land lifts to a ship approaching it.

To live by theft.

Act of lifting; also, that which is lifted.

The space or distance through which anything is lifted; as, a long lift.

Help; assistance, as by lifting; as, to give one a lift in a wagon.

That by means of which a person or thing lifts or is lifted

A hoisting machine; an elevator; a dumb waiter.

A handle.

An exercising machine.

A rise; a degree of elevation; as, the lift of a lock in canals.

A lift gate. See Lift gate, below.

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

One of the steps of a cone pulley.

A layer of leather in the heel.

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

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Lift Quotations

People still think of me as a cartoonist, but the only thing I lift a pen or pencil for these days is to sign a contract, a check, or an autograph.
Walt Disney

Youngsters of the age of two and three are endowed with extraordinary strength. They can lift a dog twice their own weight and dump him into the bathtub.
Erma Bombeck

I once saw a forklift lift a crate of forks. And it was way to literal for me.
Mitch Hedberg

If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

You will find men who want to be carried on the shoulders of others, who think that the world owes them a living. They don't seem to see that we must all lift together and pull together.
Henry Ford

I have tried to lift France out of the mud. But she will return to her errors and vomitings. I cannot prevent the French from being French.
Charles de Gaulle

Are you laboring under the impression that I read these memoranda of yours? I can't even lift them.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Yes, love indeed is light from heaven; A spark of that immortal fire with angels shared, by Allah given to lift from earth our low desire.
Lord Byron

Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher.
Oprah Winfrey

All emotions are pure which gather you and lift you up; that emotion is impure which seizes only one side of your being and so distorts you.
Rainer Maria Rilke

Lift Translations

lift in Afrikaans is optrek, hyser, styg
lift in Dutch is opgraven, rooien
lift in Finnish is nostaa
lift in Portuguese is ascensor, elevador
lift in Spanish is cscensor, subir, ascensor, cscensor, levantar
lift in Swedish is hiss, lyfta

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