lift

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That's a cultural problem that's tough to lift.

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Quick take

the act of giving temporary assistance

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of lift gathered in one view.

noun

the act of giving temporary assistance

noun

the component of the aerodynamic forces acting on an airfoil that opposes gravity

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"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for lift.

noun

the act of giving temporary assistance

noun

the component of the aerodynamic forces acting on an airfoil that opposes gravity

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

a wave that lifts the surface of the water or ground

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a powered conveyance that carries skiers up a hill

noun

a device worn in a shoe or boot to make the wearer look taller or to correct a shortened leg

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one of the layers forming the heel of a shoe or boot

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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

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

transportation of people or goods by air (especially when other means of access are unavailable)

noun

a ride in a car; "he gave me a lift home"

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the act of raising something; "he responded with a lift of his eyebrow"; "fireman learn several different raises for getting ladders up"

verb

raise from a lower to a higher position; "Raise your hands"; "Lift a load"

verb

take hold of something and move it to a different location; "lift the box onto the table"

verb

move upwards; "lift one's eyes"

verb

move upward; "The fog lifted"; "The smoke arose from the forest fire"; "The mist uprose from the meadows"

verb

make audible; "He lifted a war whoop"

verb

cancel officially; "He revoked the ban on smoking"; "lift an embargo"; "vacate a death sentence"

verb

make off with belongings of others

verb

raise or haul up with or as if with mechanical help; "hoist the bicycle onto the roof of the car"

verb

invigorate or heighten; "lift my spirits"; "lift his ego"

verb

raise in rank or condition; "The new law lifted many people from poverty"

verb

take off or away by decreasing; "lift the pressure"

verb

rise up; "The building rose before them"

verb

pay off (a mortgage)

verb

take without referencing from someone else's writing or speech; of intellectual property

verb

take illegally; "rustle cattle"

verb

fly people or goods to or from places not accessible by other means; "Food is airlifted into Bosnia"

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take (root crops) out of the ground; "lift potatoes"

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call to stop the hunt or to retire, as of hunting dogs

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rise upward, as from pressure or moisture; "The floor is lifting slowly"

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put an end to; "lift a ban"; "raise a siege"

verb

remove (hair) by scalping

verb

remove from a seedbed or from a nursery; "lift the tulip bulbs"

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remove from a surface; "the detective carefully lifted some fingerprints from the table"

verb

perform cosmetic surgery on someone's face

Example sentences

That's a cultural problem that's tough to lift.

With SpaceX and their heavy-lift plans in the back of my mind, watching the video made me cringe.

These are folks who will build the world of the 21st century, who will help lift their own countries out of poverty.

I figured when he heard that he had actually received an award it would lift his spirits even more.

Send these, the landowners, first-class-turbulence-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the door for those with gold!

" Now they are going to achieve the same thing, "Get the car lifted off the street" but it's not about them, its about getting what is needed to be done, actually done.

Applicative functors have an operation which can lift regular functions into it.

A Brayton cycle has a certain efficiency at a given pressure ratio and an airfoil has a certain maximum lift-curve slope and there is nothing you can do about it.

Similarly, the smaller objective of Facebook Social plugins is to lift the userbase from third party websites and move it into Facebook.

A vertical circulation engineer to design the lift and escalator strategy.

But plenty of people have bipolar mood disorders, with various mood patterns over time, and bipolar mood disorders are tricky to treat, because some treatments that lift mood simply move patients from depression into mania.

That rising tide will lift all boats, keeping the consumer devices edging ahead; that is unless, you are harking back to the "give consumers bare minimum craptaculous cloud terminals".That's been tried about every 3 months for the past 35 years or so and has never gone well.