Talk:lift

"1.[sic] Amer. a ride" - isn't this British English? [see also reply]


 * Numbering corrected Paul G 18:15, 15 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Doesn't lift also mean upward force (as created by a wing)? Polyglot 22:23, 15 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Use of "lift" is British only ?
Lift, when meaning the device known as an elevator to North Americans, is listed at "Brit."....does this imply that usage of the word in this sense is confined to the UK ? If this is the implication, then that needs changing. In terms of worldwide coverage, I suspect that lift is the more widely used word, therefore there is perhaps more scope to describe usage of the word as "outside of North American" rather than British. The more commonly used word is undoubtable elevator due to the number of native English speakers in North America, but if geographically based terms are going to be used to describe usage, then the smaller geographical area of usage for either word is elevator.

Relation to shoplifting
Is lift, in the definition of stealing, a shortened form of shoplift? Or do I have it the wrong way around?
 * lift meaning to steal is attested from 1526, so probably the other way around. - TheDaveRoss

Etymology
I found out the Old Norse origin of the word and added it respectively. However, it refers to the verb and if the noun does not originate from the verb (contrary to what I had assumed), then it should be related only to the verb as exempli gratia "Etymology 2". I make this exposition in order to prevent any possible objections that "lypta" is a verb, whereof I am well aware. Bogorm 15:57, 18 September 2008 (UTC)

Lifting the hand
Chambers 1908 has lift the hand, "to raise it in hostility", and lift up the hand, "to make oath, swear; to pray". Equinox ◑ 21:56, 23 August 2019 (UTC)

transitive verb: take something from place
to grasp something and move it somewhere else She lifted the CD from the rack. Microsoft® Encarta® 2009 --Backinstadiums (talk) 15:10, 27 May 2020 (UTC)