What is the meaning of lift?

noun

• The act of giving temporary assistance.
• The component of the aerodynamic forces acting on an airfoil that opposes gravity.
  • synonyms: aerodynamic lift
• The event of something being raised upward.
  • usage: "an elevation of the temperature in the afternoon"; "a raising of the land resulting from volcanic activity"
  • synonyms: elevation, raising
• A wave that lifts the surface of the water or ground.
  • synonyms: rise
• A powered conveyance that carries skiers up a hill.
  • synonyms: ski tow, ski lift
• A device worn in a shoe or boot to make the wearer look taller or to correct a shortened leg.
• One of the layers forming the heel of a shoe or boot.
• 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.
  • synonyms: elevator
• 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.
  • usage: "some actresses have more than one face lift"
  • synonyms: face lift, facelift, face lifting, cosmetic surgery, rhytidectomy, rhytidoplasty, nip and tuck
• Transportation of people or goods by air (especially when other means of access are unavailable.
  • synonyms: airlift
• A ride in a car.
  • usage: "he gave me a lift home"
• The act of raising something.
  • usage: "he responded with a lift of his eyebrow"; "fireman learn several different raises for getting ladders up"
  • synonyms: raise, heave

verb

• Raise from a lower to a higher position.
  • usage: "Raise your hands"; "Lift a load"
  • synonyms: raise, elevate, get up, bring up
• Take hold of something and move it to a different location.
  • usage: "lift the box onto the table"
• Move upwards.
  • usage: "lift one's eyes"
  • synonyms: raise
• Move upward.
  • usage: "The fog lifted"; "The smoke arose from the forest fire"; "The mist uprose from the meadows"
  • synonyms: rise, arise, move up, go up, come up, uprise
• Make audible.
  • usage: "He lifted a war whoop"
• Cancel officially.
  • usage: "He revoked the ban on smoking"; "lift an embargo"; "vacate a death sentence"
  • synonyms: revoke, annul, countermand, reverse, repeal, overturn, rescind, vacate
• Make off with belongings of others.
  • synonyms: pilfer, cabbage, purloin, pinch, abstract, snarf, swipe, hook, sneak, filch, nobble
• Raise or haul up with or as if with mechanical help.
  • usage: "hoist the bicycle onto the roof of the car"
  • synonyms: hoist, wind
• Invigorate or heighten.
  • usage: "lift my spirits"; "lift his ego"
  • synonyms: raise
• Raise in rank or condition.
  • usage: "The new law lifted many people from poverty"
  • synonyms: raise, elevate
• Take off or away by decreasing.
  • usage: "lift the pressure"
• Rise up.
  • usage: "The building rose before them"
  • synonyms: rise, rear
• Pay off (a mortgage. )
• Take without referencing from someone else's writing or speech; of intellectual property.
  • synonyms: plagiarize, plagiarise
• Take illegally.
  • usage: "rustle cattle"
  • synonyms: rustle
• Fly people or goods to or from places not accessible by other means.
  • usage: "Food is airlifted into Bosnia"
  • synonyms: airlift
• Take (root crops) out of the ground.
  • usage: "lift potatoes"
• Call to stop the hunt or to retire, as of hunting dogs.
• Rise upward, as from pressure or moisture.
  • usage: "The floor is lifting slowly"
• Put an end to.
  • usage: "lift a ban"; "raise a siege"
  • synonyms: raise
• Remove (hair) by scalping.
• Remove from a seedbed or from a nursery.
  • usage: "lift the tulip bulbs"
• Remove from a surface.
  • usage: "the detective carefully lifted some fingerprints from the table"
• Perform cosmetic surgery on someone's face.
  • synonyms: face-lift