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say it: lift
lift is a verb and noun meaning "raise from a lower to a higher position". It is pronounced /ˈlɪft/ — lift. It carries 36 recorded senses.
pay off (a mortgage)
take without referencing from someone else's writing or speech; of intellectual property
crime
call to stop the hunt or to retire, as of hunting dogs
remove (hair) by scalping
perform cosmetic surgery on someone's face
the act of giving temporary assistance
the component of the aerodynamic forces acting on an airfoil that opposes gravity
a powered conveyance that carries skiers up a hill
a device worn in a shoe or boot to make the wearer look taller or to correct a shortened leg
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
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”
transportation of people or goods by air (especially when other means of access are unavailable)
the act of raising something
“he responded with a lift of his eyebrow”
“fireman learn several different raises for getting ladders up”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for lift come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.