lift

Noun

lift (plural lifts)

1. (UK) Mechanical device for vertically transporting goods or people between floors in a building; an elevator.

   Take the lift to the fourth floor.

2. The act of transporting someone in a vehicle; a ride; a trip.

   He gave me a lift to the bus station.

3. An upward force, such as the force that keeps aircraft aloft.

Synonyms:

• elevator (1)
• ride (2)
• uplift (3)

4 letters in word "lift": F I L T.

Anagrams of lift:

• flit

Words found within lift:

fil fit if it li lit ti til

• Definitions:
• raise: raise from a lower to a higher position; "Raise your hands"; "Lift a load" take hold of something and move it to a different location; "lift the box onto the table" move upwards; "lift one's eyes" rise: move upward; "The fog lifted"; "The smoke arose from the forest fire"; "The mist uprose from the meadows" make audible; "He lifted a war whoop" revoke: annul by recalling or rescinding; "He revoked the ban on smoking"; "lift an embargo"; "vacate a death sentence" pilfer: make off with belongings of others hoist: raise or haul up with or as if with mechanical help; "hoist the bicycle onto the roof of the car" raise: invigorate or heighten; "lift my spirits"; "lift his ego" raise in rank or condition; "The new law lifted many people from poverty" take off or away by decreasing; "lift the pressure" rise: rise up; "The building rose before them" the act of giving temporary assistance pay off (a mortgage) plagiarize: take without referencing from someone else's writing or speech; of intellectual property aerodynamic lift: the component of the aerodynamic forces acting on an airfoil that opposes gravity rustle: take illegally; "rustle cattle" elevation: the event of something being raised upward; "an elevation of the temperature in the afternoon"; "a raising of the land resulting from volcanic activity" a wave that lifts the surface of the water or ground airlift: fly people or goods to or from places not accessible by other means; "Food is airlifted into Bosnia" ski tow: a powered conveyance that carries skiers up a hill take (root crops) out of the ground; "lift potatoes" a device worn in a shoe or boot to make the wearer look taller or to correct a shortened leg call to stop the hunt or to retire, as of hunting dogs one of the layers forming the heel of a shoe or boot rise upward, as from pressure or moisture; "The floor is lifting slowly" put an end to; "lift a ban"; "raise a siege" elevator: 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 remove (hair) by scalping face lift: 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" airlift: transportation of people or goods by air (especially when other means of access are unavailable) remove from a seedbed or from a nursery; "lift the tulip bulbs" a ride in a car; "he gave me a lift home" remove from a surface; "the detective carefully lifted some fingerprints from the table" the act of raising something; "he responded with a lift of his eyebrow"; "fireman learn several different raises for getting ladders up" face-lift: perform cosmetic surgery on someone's face
• LIFT is an EMTA program in Erie County, Pennsylvania that provides door-to-door transportation services to mostly to people who have physical disabilities or to senior citizens (although any one who lives "beyond the bus routes or are unable to utilize bus services" are able to apply for the ...
• The lift force, lifting force or simply lift is a mechanical force generated by a solid object moving through a fluid. Lift is the sum of all the fluid dynamic forces on a body perpendicular to the direction of the external flow approaching that body. ...
• Lift is a range of soft drinks produced by The Coca-Cola Company that has been available in Australia, New Zealand, Latin America, Germany and Eastern Europe since the 1970s, which is carbonated and flavored with fruit juice. Lift is only available in the Lemon flavor in Australia. ...
• In data mining, lift is a measure of the performance of a model at segmenting the population. The lift of a subset of the population is defined as the predicted response rate for that subset divided by the predicted response rate for the population.
• "Lift" is the second single by Australian singer Shannon Noll from his sophomore album with the same name. ...
• Lift, released in 2004, is Sister Hazel's fifth studio album.
• Lift is the second album by Australian singer-songwriter Shannon Noll. It was released by Sony BMG in Australia on 16 October, 2005. Noll himself co-wrote eleven out of the thirteen songs in the album. ...
• Lift is the eighth album released by Audio Adrenaline.
• Lift is a single of the rock band Poets of the Fall. It is the second single released from their debut album, Signs of Life. The single contains two versions of the title track, as well as the exclusive B-side song, "The Beautiful Ones". ...
• Lift is the seventh and final album by the British band Love and Rockets, released in 1998 on Red Ant.
• Lift is a term used to describe a fragrance that has life and brilliance.
• A handle or grip installed on the bottom rail of the lower sash of a double-hung window to make it easier to raise or lower the sash.
• Handle for raising the lower sash in a double-hung window. Also called sash lift.
• The component, perpendicular to the relative wind and in the plane of symmetry, of the total force of air on an aircraft or airfoil. It must be specified whether this applies to a complete aircraft or the parts thereof. In the case of a lighter-than-air craft, this is often called dynamic lift.
• The upward reaction of an aircraft to the flow of air air forced over the shape of the wing (airfoil). The front and rear wings of ground effect cars are shaped like inverted wings to create downforce or negative lift.
• When one or more swimmers gives support to lift another swimmer (or more) above the surface of the water.
• The ratio of confidence to expected confidence of a rule created by the Association Rules Generator. Generally, the greater this number, the more interesting the rule.
• the sprayed polyurethane foam that results from a pass. It usually is associated with a certain pass thickness and has a bottom layer, center mass, and top skin in its makeup.
• the line rigged from the mast which holds the outboard end of the bosom or spinnaker pole in a desired horizontal position.
• A force that pushes objects upward.
• That component of the aerodynamic force which is perpendicular to the direction of a body's travel, directed vertically upwards or downwards (negative lift).
• The force exerted by moving air on asymmetrically-shaped wind generator blades at right angles to the direction of relative movement. Ideally, wind generator blades should produce high Lift and low Drag.
• the force that exerts an upward pull
• Control that raises and lowers the blind. Most often a cord. Other special controls are available such as continuous cord loops.
• a force that acts upward against gravity and makes it possible for airplanes, airships, and balloons to rise in the air
• The process of moving a container or trailer to and or from a rail car.
• An elevator. Either term - lift or elevator - is acceptable and widely understood by ship staff.
• The force generated by the movement of air across the wings of an aircraft. When enough lift is generated to overcome the weight of an aircraft, the aircraft rises.
• the lifting force on a flying object (in particular, a wing or an aircraft), due to its motion relative to the surrounding air. Lift is one of the four forces sensed by an airplane, the others being drag, thrust and weight.
• Line to support the weight of a BOOM or YARD.
• (sometimes also "preferred lies, winter rules") a mode of play, usually because of muddy or poor course conditions, where through the green the ball may be picked up, cleaned off and replaced (within a pre-specified distance from the ball's original location) in the position of the player's ...
• A layer or course of paving material applied to a base or a previous layer.
• the distance or extent to which water in a canal lock rises.
• The part of a non-launched coaster that raises the cars to a higher location.
• A layer of newly deposited material to be compacted.

• lifeworks ←
• lifework ←
• lifeways ←
• lift
• → liftable
• → liftback
• → liftbacks