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.
Definitions
- noun. The sky; the atmosphere; the firmament.
- transitive 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.
- transitive verb. To raise, elevate, exalt, improve, in rank, condition, estimation, character, etc.; -- often with up.
- transitive verb. To bear; to support.
- transitive verb. To collect, as moneys due; to raise.
- transitive verb. To steal; to carry off by theft (esp. cattle); as, to lift a drove of cattle.
- intransitive verb. To try to raise something; to exert the strength for raising or bearing.
- intransitive verb. To rise; to become or appear raised or elevated; as, the fog lifts; the land lifts to a ship approaching it.
- transitive verb. To live by theft.
- noun. Act of lifting; also, that which is lifted.
- noun. The space or distance through which anything is lifted; as, a long lift.
- noun. Help; assistance, as by lifting; as, to give one a lift in a wagon.
- noun. That by means of which a person or thing lifts or is lifted
- noun. A hoisting machine; an elevator; a dumb waiter.
- noun. A handle.
- noun. An exercising machine.
- noun. A rise; a degree of elevation; as, the lift of a lock in canals.
- noun. A lift gate. See Lift gate, below.
- noun. A rope leading from the masthead to the extremity of a yard below; -- used for raising or supporting the end of the yard.
- noun. One of the steps of a cone pulley.
- noun. A layer of leather in the heel.
- noun. That portion of the vibration of a balance during which the impulse is given.
- noun. the act of raising something
"he responded with a lift of his eyebrow"
"fireman learn several different raises for getting ladders up"
- noun. a ride in a car
"he gave me a lift home"
- noun. transportation of people or goods by air (especially when other means of access are unavailable)
- noun. 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"
- noun. the act of giving temporary assistance
- noun. 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
- noun. one of the layers forming the heel of a shoe or boot
- noun. a device worn in a shoe or boot to make the wearer look taller or to correct a shortened leg
- noun. a powered conveyance that carries skiers up a hill
- noun. a wave that lifts the surface of the water or ground
- noun. the event of something being raised upward
"an elevation of the temperature in the afternoon"
"a raising of the land resulting from volcanic activity"
- noun. the component of the aerodynamic forces acting on an airfoil that opposes gravity
- verb. perform cosmetic surgery on someone's face
- verb. remove from a surface
"the detective carefully lifted some fingerprints from the table"
- verb. take off or away by decreasing
"lift the pressure"
- verb. remove from a seedbed or from a nursery
"lift the tulip bulbs"
- verb. remove (hair) by scalping
- verb. put an end to
"lift a ban"
"raise a siege"
- verb. rise upward, as from pressure or moisture
"The floor is lifting slowly"
- verb. raise in rank or condition
"The new law lifted many people from poverty"
- verb. invigorate or heighten
"lift my spirits"
"lift his ego"
- verb. call to stop the hunt or to retire, as of hunting dogs
- verb. cancel officially
"He revoked the ban on smoking"
"lift an embargo"
- verb. make audible
"He lifted a war whoop"
- verb. take (root crops) out of the ground
"lift potatoes"
- verb. fly people or goods to or from places not accessible by other means
"Food is airlifted into Bosnia"
- verb. raise or haul up with or as if with mechanical help
"hoist the bicycle onto the roof of the car"
- verb. take hold of something and move it to a different location
"lift the box onto the table"
- verb. move upward
"The fog lifted"
"The smoke arose from the forest fire"
- verb. move upwards
"lift one's eyes"
- verb. raise from a lower to a higher position
"Raise your hands"
"Lift a load"
- verb. make off with belongings of others
- verb. take illegally
"rustle cattle"
- verb. take without referencing from someone else's writing or speech; of intellectual property
- verb. pay off (a mortgage)
- verb. rise up
"The building rose before them"
Synonyms
heave, raise, airlift, facelift, rhytidectomy, rhytidoplasty, elevator, rise, elevation, raising, elevate, annul, countermand, overturn, repeal, rescind, reverse, revoke, vacate, hoist, wind, arise, uprise, abstract
Anagrams
Other playable words that use exactly the letters in lift:
Common word forms
lifts, lifted, lifter, lifting, liftable, liftless
Words from these letters
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