lift

Etymology 1
From, , from , from , related to , perhaps from or from a root meaning roof (see ). Cognate with 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬. See above. 1851 for the noun sense "a mechanical device for vertical transport".

For this sense Cleasby suggests perhaps a relation to the root of Gothic "thief", cognate with 🇨🇬 and Greek ).

Verb

 * 1)   To raise or rise.
 * 2) * c. 1490, Of Penance and Confession be master Jhon Yrlandː
 * Liftand (lifting) thy hands and thy eyen to Heaven.
 * 1)   To steal.
 * 2)   To source directly without acknowledgement; to plagiarise.
 * 3)   To arrest (a person).
 * 4)   To remove (a ban, restriction, etc.).
 * 5)   To alleviate, to lighten (pressure, tension, stress, etc.)
 * 6)  to cause to move upwards.
 * 7)   To lift weights; to weight-lift.
 * 8) To try to raise something; to exert the strength for raising or bearing.
 * 9) To elevate or improve in rank, condition, etc.; often with up.
 * 10)  To bear; to support.
 * 11) To collect, as moneys due; to raise.
 * 12)  To transform (a function) into a corresponding function in a different context.
 * 13)  To buy a security or other asset previously offered for sale.
 * 14)  To take (hounds) off the existing scent and move them to another spot.
 * 15)  Given morphisms $$f$$ and $$g$$ with the same target: To produce a morphism which the given morphism factors through (i.e. a morphism $$h$$ such that $$ f = g \circ h$$; c.f. lift n.)
 * 1)   To lift weights; to weight-lift.
 * 2) To try to raise something; to exert the strength for raising or bearing.
 * 3) To elevate or improve in rank, condition, etc.; often with up.
 * 4)  To bear; to support.
 * 5) To collect, as moneys due; to raise.
 * 6)  To transform (a function) into a corresponding function in a different context.
 * 7)  To buy a security or other asset previously offered for sale.
 * 8)  To take (hounds) off the existing scent and move them to another spot.
 * 9)  Given morphisms $$f$$ and $$g$$ with the same target: To produce a morphism which the given morphism factors through (i.e. a morphism $$h$$ such that $$ f = g \circ h$$; c.f. lift n.)
 * 1) To collect, as moneys due; to raise.
 * 2)  To transform (a function) into a corresponding function in a different context.
 * 3)  To buy a security or other asset previously offered for sale.
 * 4)  To take (hounds) off the existing scent and move them to another spot.
 * 5)  Given morphisms $$f$$ and $$g$$ with the same target: To produce a morphism which the given morphism factors through (i.e. a morphism $$h$$ such that $$ f = g \circ h$$; c.f. lift n.)
 * 1)  To take (hounds) off the existing scent and move them to another spot.
 * 2)  Given morphisms $$f$$ and $$g$$ with the same target: To produce a morphism which the given morphism factors through (i.e. a morphism $$h$$ such that $$ f = g \circ h$$; c.f. lift n.)
 * 1)  Given morphisms $$f$$ and $$g$$ with the same target: To produce a morphism which the given morphism factors through (i.e. a morphism $$h$$ such that $$ f = g \circ h$$; c.f. lift n.)

Usage notes
Lift also has an obsolete form for the present participle. The strong forms were common until the 17th century in writing and still survive in speech in a few rural dialects.

Noun

 * 1) An act of lifting or raising.
 * 2) The act of transporting someone in a vehicle; a ride; a trip.
 * 3)  Mechanical device for vertically transporting goods or people between floors in a building.
 * 4)  An upward force; especially, the force (generated by wings, rotary wings, or airfoils) that keeps aircraft aloft.
 * 5)  The difference in elevation between the upper pool and lower pool of a waterway, separated by lock.
 * 6)  A thief.
 * 7)  The lifting of a dance partner into the air.
 * 8) Permanent construction with a built-in platform that is lifted vertically.
 * 9)  An improvement in mood.
 * 10) The amount or weight to be lifted.
 * 11) The space or distance through which anything is lifted.
 * 12) A rise; a degree of elevation.
 * 13) A liftgate.
 * 14)  A rope leading from the masthead to the extremity of a yard below, and used for raising or supporting the end of the yard.
 * 15)  One of the steps of a cone pulley.
 * 16)  A layer of leather in the heel of a shoe.
 * 17)  That portion of the vibration of a balance during which the impulse is given.
 * 18)   A morphism which some given morphism factors through; i.e. given a pair of morphisms $$f:X \to Y$$ and $$g:Z \to Y$$, a morphism $$h$$ such that $$f = g \circ h$$..
 * 1) The amount or weight to be lifted.
 * 2) The space or distance through which anything is lifted.
 * 3) A rise; a degree of elevation.
 * 4) A liftgate.
 * 5)  A rope leading from the masthead to the extremity of a yard below, and used for raising or supporting the end of the yard.
 * 6)  One of the steps of a cone pulley.
 * 7)  A layer of leather in the heel of a shoe.
 * 8)  That portion of the vibration of a balance during which the impulse is given.
 * 9)   A morphism which some given morphism factors through; i.e. given a pair of morphisms $$f:X \to Y$$ and $$g:Z \to Y$$, a morphism $$h$$ such that $$f = g \circ h$$..
 * 1)  That portion of the vibration of a balance during which the impulse is given.
 * 2)   A morphism which some given morphism factors through; i.e. given a pair of morphisms $$f:X \to Y$$ and $$g:Z \to Y$$, a morphism $$h$$ such that $$f = g \circ h$$..
 * 1)   A morphism which some given morphism factors through; i.e. given a pair of morphisms $$f:X \to Y$$ and $$g:Z \to Y$$, a morphism $$h$$ such that $$f = g \circ h$$..

Translations

 * Serbo-Croatian:

Etymology 2
From, , , from , from , from , from.

Cognate with 🇨🇬 (🇨🇬), 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬. .

Noun

 * 1)  Air.
 * 2)  The sky; the heavens; firmament; atmosphere.

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) The non-commercial act of transporting someone in a vehicle: ride
 * 2) boost

Noun

 * 1) carrycot
 * 2) elevator
 * 3) lift

Etymology 1
Borrowed from.

Noun

 * 1) A lift, an elevator.
 * 2) A free ride, a.

Etymology
From.

Etymology
.

Noun

 * 1)  lift attendant, elevator attendant
 * 2) * 1919,, À l'ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs:
 * Sans la timidité ni la tristesse du soir de mon arrivée, je sonnai le lift qui ne restait plus silencieux pendant que je m'élevais à côté de lui dans l'ascenseur.
 * ''Without the timidity or sadness of the evening I arrived, I rang for the lift attendant, who no longer remained silent as I travelled up beside him in the elevator.
 * 1)  topspin

Etymology
Borrowed from.

Noun

 * 1) lift, elevator

Etymology
From, from , , from , from , related to , perhaps from or from a root meaning roof (see ).

Noun

 * , mechanical device for vertically transporting goods or people between floors in a building; an elevator.

Etymology
. In sense 1, a clipping of. In sense 2, a transferred sense of.

Noun

 * 1)  / elevator operator
 * 2)  topspin

Etymology
From.

Adjective

 * 1) left

Etymology
,.

Noun

 * 1) elevator,
 * 2)  A stroke that gives the ball an upward trajection.
 * 1)  A stroke that gives the ball an upward trajection.

Etymology
From, , from.

Noun

 * 1) sky, firmament
 * 2)  air, atmosphere

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * , elevator

Etymology
.

Noun

 * 1)  an elevator, lift

Etymology
.

Noun

 * 1) a ski lift
 * 2) an aerial work platform
 * 3) a ride, a  (for free, for example when hitchhiking)
 * 1) an aerial work platform
 * 2) a ride, a  (for free, for example when hitchhiking)
 * 1) a ride, a  (for free, for example when hitchhiking)
 * 1) a ride, a  (for free, for example when hitchhiking)

Usage notes
Compare.

Etymology
, from.

Noun

 * 1) elevator
 * 2) altitude adjustor