<p><strong>Verb</strong></p><ul><li>(used with object) to move or bring (something) upward from the ground or other support to a higher position; hoist</li><li>Synonyms: elevate</li><li>Antonyms: lower</li><li>to raise or direct upward: to lift one's head</li><li>He lifted his arm in a gesture of farewell; to lift one's head</li><li>to remove or rescind by an official act, as a ban, curfew, or tax: a court decision to lift the ban on strikes by teachers</li><li>to stop or put an end to (a boycott, blockade, etc.): The citizenry will have to conserve food and water until the siege against the city is lifted</li><li>to hold up or display on high</li><li>to raise in rank, condition, estimation, etc.; elevate or exalt (sometimes used reflexively): By hard work they lifted themselves from poverty</li><li>His first book lifted him from obscurity</li><li>to make audible or louder, as the voice or something voiced: The congregation lifted their voices in song</li><li>to transfer from one setting to another: For the protagonist of the new play, the author has lifted a character from an early novel</li><li>Informal: to plagiarize: Whole passages had been lifted from another book</li><li>Informal: to steal: His wallet was lifted on the crowded subway</li><li>airlift (def 5)</li><li>to remove (plants and tubers) from the ground, as after harvest or for transplanting</li><li>Horology: (of an escape wheel) to move (a pallet) by moving along the outer, oblique face</li><li>to pay off (a mortgage, promissory note, etc.)</li><li>Golf: to pick up (the ball), as to move it from an unplayable lie</li><li>to perform a surgical lift on</li><li>Shipbuilding: to transfer (measurements and the like) from a drawing, model, etc., to a piece being built</li><li>to form (a template) according to a drawing, model, etc.</li><li>to cease temporarily from directing (fire or bombardment) on an objective or area: They lifted the fire when the infantry began to advance</li><li>Fox Hunting: to take (hounds) from the line of a fox to where it has just been seen</li></ul><p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>the act of lifting, raising, or rising: the lift of a hand</li><li>the distance that anything rises or is raised: a lift of 20 feet between canal locks</li><li>a lifting or raising force: A kite depends on the wind to act as its lift</li><li>the weight, load, or quantity lifted</li><li>an act or instance of helping to climb or mount: He gave her a lift onto the wagon</li><li>a ride in a vehicle, especially one given to a pedestrian: Can you give me a lift across town?</li><li>a feeling of exaltation or uplift: Their visit gave me quite a lift</li><li>assistance or aid: The fund-raiser's successful efforts proved a great lift for the organization</li><li>a device or apparatus for lifting: a hydraulic lift</li><li>a movement in which a dancer, skater, etc., lifts up his partner</li><li>a cosmetic surgery that lifts and tightens a specified part of the body and removes excess skin and fat: a breast lift; an arm lift; a breast lift; a buttocks lift</li><li>Skiing: ski lift; chairlift</li><li>British: elevator (def 2)</li><li>any device used to lift or elevate, as a dumbwaiter or hoist</li><li>Informal: a theft</li><li>a rise or elevation of ground</li><li>Aeronautics: the component of the aerodynamic force exerted by the air on an airfoil, having a direction perpendicular to the direction of motion and causing an aircraft to stay aloft</li><li>Nautical: the capacity of a cargo ship measured in dead-weight tons</li><li>topping lift</li><li>one of the layers of leather forming the heel of a boot or shoe</li><li>a special arch support built or inserted into footwear</li><li>Mining: the slice or thickness of ore mined in one operation</li><li>Building Trades: the height of the quantity of concrete poured into a form at one time</li><li>Naval Architecture: any of the horizontal planks forming a type of half model lift model, able to be removed and measured as a guide to laying out the water lines of the vessel at full scale</li><li>Typesetting: fat (def 23)</li><li>Printing: the quantity of paper loaded into or removed from a press or other printing machine at one time</li><li>Horology: the displacement of a pallet by an escape wheel that has been unlocked; the angle through which the pallet passes when so displaced</li><li>airlift (defs 1, 2, 3)</li></ul>