Dictionary Entry
lift
lift is a 4-letter English word with 58 senses as noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The sky; the atmosphere; the firmament. Face value is 7 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
4 letters · Scrabble 7 · Words With Friends 8 · 58 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
The sky; the atmosphere; the firmament.
- 2transitive verb
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.
- 3transitive verb
To raise, elevate, exalt, improve, in rank, condition, estimation, character, etc.; -- often with up.
- 4transitive verb
To bear; to support.
- 5transitive verb
To collect, as moneys due; to raise.
- 6transitive verb
To steal; to carry off by theft (esp. cattle); as, to lift a drove of cattle.
- 7intransitive verb
To try to raise something; to exert the strength for raising or bearing.
- 8intransitive verb
To rise; to become or appear raised or elevated; as, the fog lifts; the land lifts to a ship approaching it.
- 9transitive verb
To live by theft.
- 10noun
Act of lifting; also, that which is lifted.
- 11noun
The space or distance through which anything is lifted; as, a long lift.
- 12noun
Help; assistance, as by lifting; as, to give one a lift in a wagon.
- 13noun
That by means of which a person or thing lifts or is lifted
- 14noun
A hoisting machine; an elevator; a dumb waiter.
- 15noun
A handle.
- 16noun
An exercising machine.
- 17noun
A rise; a degree of elevation; as, the lift of a lock in canals.
- 18noun
A lift gate. See Lift gate, below.
- 19noun
A rope leading from the masthead to the extremity of a yard below; -- used for raising or supporting the end of the yard.
- 20noun
One of the steps of a cone pulley.
- 21noun
A layer of leather in the heel.
- 22noun
That portion of the vibration of a balance during which the impulse is given.
- 23noun
the act of raising something
"he responded with a lift of his eyebrow"
"fireman learn several different raises for getting ladders up"
- 24noun
a ride in a car
"he gave me a lift home"
- 25noun
transportation of people or goods by air (especially when other means of access are unavailable)
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- 26noun
plastic surgery to remove wrinkles and other signs of aging from your face; an incision is made near the hair line and skin is pulled back and excess tissue is excised
"some actresses have more than one face lift"
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- 27noun
the act of giving temporary assistance
- 28noun
lifting device consisting of a platform or cage that is raised and lowered mechanically in a vertical shaft in order to move people from one floor to another in a building
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- 29noun
one of the layers forming the heel of a shoe or boot
- 30noun
a device worn in a shoe or boot to make the wearer look taller or to correct a shortened leg
- 31noun
a powered conveyance that carries skiers up a hill
- 32noun
a wave that lifts the surface of the water or ground
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- 33noun
the event of something being raised upward
"an elevation of the temperature in the afternoon"
"a raising of the land resulting from volcanic activity"
- 34noun
the component of the aerodynamic forces acting on an airfoil that opposes gravity
- 35verb
perform cosmetic surgery on someone's face
- 36verb
remove from a surface
"the detective carefully lifted some fingerprints from the table"
- 37verb
take off or away by decreasing
"lift the pressure"
- 38verb
remove from a seedbed or from a nursery
"lift the tulip bulbs"
- 39verb
remove (hair) by scalping
- 40verb
put an end to
"lift a ban"
"raise a siege"
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- 41verb
rise upward, as from pressure or moisture
"The floor is lifting slowly"
- 42verb
raise in rank or condition
"The new law lifted many people from poverty"
- 43verb
invigorate or heighten
"lift my spirits"
"lift his ego"
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- 44verb
call to stop the hunt or to retire, as of hunting dogs
- 45verb
cancel officially
"He revoked the ban on smoking"
"lift an embargo"
- 46verb
make audible
"He lifted a war whoop"
- 47verb
take (root crops) out of the ground
"lift potatoes"
- 48verb
fly people or goods to or from places not accessible by other means
"Food is airlifted into Bosnia"
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- 49verb
raise or haul up with or as if with mechanical help
"hoist the bicycle onto the roof of the car"
- 50verb
take hold of something and move it to a different location
"lift the box onto the table"
- 51verb
move upward
"The fog lifted"
"The smoke arose from the forest fire"
- 52verb
move upwards
"lift one's eyes"
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- 53verb
raise from a lower to a higher position
"Raise your hands"
"Lift a load"
- 54verb
make off with belongings of others
- 55verb
take illegally
"rustle cattle"
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- 56verb
take without referencing from someone else's writing or speech; of intellectual property
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- 57verb
pay off (a mortgage)
- 58verb
rise up
"The building rose before them"
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