1. Take from a lower to a higher position
   "Lift a load";
   - raise, elevate, get up, bring up
    
2. Raise or haul up with or as if with mechanical help
   "lift the bicycle onto the roof of the car";
   - hoist, wind[2]
    
3. Take hold of something and move it to a different location
   "lift the box onto the table"
    
4. Cause to move upwards
   "lift one's eyes";
   - raise
    
5. Move upward
   "The fog lifted";
   - rise, arise, move up, go up, come up, uprise [archaic, literary]
    
6. Increase in condition, wealth, quality of life, etc.
   "The new law lifted many people from poverty";
   - raise, elevate
    
7. Become or appear high or tall
   "The mountains lifted into the clouds";
   - rise, rear
    
8. Rise upward, as from pressure or moisture
   "The floor is lifting slowly"
    
9. [informal] Take by theft
   "He was going to lift the phone someone had left behind";
   - hook [informal], snitch [informal], thieve, cop [informal], knock off [informal], glom [N. Amer, informal], boost [N. Amer, informal], pilfer, cabbage [archaic, informal], purloin [informal], pinch [Brit, informal], abstract [informal], snarf [N. Amer, informal], swipe [informal], sneak [informal], filch [informal], nobble [Brit, informal], nick [Brit, informal], snatch [informal], whip [Brit, informal], blag [Brit, informal]
    
10. [informal] Take illegally
    "Someone lifted my wallet at the concert";
    - rustle
     
11. Take without referencing from someone else's writing or speech; of intellectual property
    "The student lifted entire paragraphs from Wikipedia";
    - plagiarize, plagiarise [Brit]
     
12. Cancel officially
    "lift an embargo";
    - revoke, annul, countermand, reverse, repeal, overturn, rescind, vacate
     
13. Fly people or goods to or from places not accessible by other means
    "Food is lifted into Bosnia";
    - airlift
     
14. Take (root crops) out of the ground
    "lift potatoes"
     
15. Remove from a surface
    "the detective carefully lifted some fingerprints from the table"
     
16. Take off or away by decreasing
    "lift the pressure"
     
17. Remove from a seedbed or from a nursery
    "lift the tulip bulbs"
     
18. Perform cosmetic surgery to improve the appearance of someone's face
    "The actress decided to face-lift to maintain her youthful appearance";
    - face-lift
     
19. Make audible
    "He lifted a war whoop"
     
20. Pay off (a mortgage)
    "They finally lifted the mortgage on their home after 30 years"
     
21. Put an end to
    "lift a ban";
    - raise
     
22. Call to stop the hunt or to retire, as of hunting dogs
    "The huntsman lifted the hounds at the end of the day"
     
23. Invigorate or heighten
    "lift his ego"; "lift my spirits";
    - raise

1. [Brit] 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
   "They took the lift to the top floor of the skyscraper";
   - elevator [N. Amer, Austral, NZ]
    
2. A powered conveyance that carries skiers up a hill
   "They waited in line for the ski lift to take them to the top of the slope";
   - ski tow, ski lift
    
3. The act of raising something
   "he responded with a lift of his eyebrow";
   - raise, heave
    
4. The event of something being raised upward
   "The lift of the helicopter was graceful and precise";
   - elevation, raising
    
5. A ride in a car
   "he gave me a lift home"
    
6. The component of the aerodynamic forces acting on an airfoil that opposes gravity
   "The aircraft's wings provide aerodynamic lift to keep it airborne";
   - aerodynamic lift
    
7. The act of giving temporary assistance
   "His friend's lift helped him move the heavy furniture"
    
8. A wave that lifts the surface of the water or ground
   "The surfers waited patiently for the perfect lift to ride";
   - rise
    
9. A device worn in a shoe or boot to make the wearer look taller or to correct a shortened leg
   "He discreetly used lifts in his shoes to appear taller"
    
10. One of the layers forming the heel of a shoe or boot
    "The cobbler added an extra lift to increase the height of the heel"
     
11. Surgery performed to improve a person's appearance, especially of the face or body
    "some actresses have more than one face lift";
    - face lift, facelift, face lifting, cosmetic surgery, rhytidectomy, rhytidoplasty, nip and tuck [informal]
     
12. Transportation of people or goods by air (especially when other means of access are unavailable)
    "The remote village received emergency supplies by lift";
    - airlift

Derived forms: lifts, lifting, lifted

Type of: actuation, aerodynamic force, aid, alter, ameliorate, amend, anaplasty, appear, ascension, ascent, assist, assistance, bed, better, buckle, call, cancel, change, conveyance, device, dig, dig out, displace, drive, emit, end, fly, go, heave, help, improve, layer, let loose, let out, lifting device, liquidate, locomote, look, meliorate, mend, modify, move, moving ridge, operate, operate on, pay off, plastic surgery, propulsion, reconstructive surgery, redeem, remove, ride, rip [N. Amer, informal], rip off [informal], rise, rising, seem, send for, steal, strike down, take, take away, terminate, transfer, transferral, transport, transportation, travel, utter, warp, wave, withdraw

Part of: building, edifice, heel

Encyclopedia: Lift