lift
升降机,抬起,举起,抬起来
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- : to move or bring upward from the ground or other support to a higher position; hoist.
- : to raise or direct upward: He lifted his arm in a gesture of farewell; to lift one's head.
- : 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.
- : to stop or put an end to: The citizenry will have to conserve food and water until the siege against the city is lifted.
- : to hold up or display on high.
- : to raise in rank, condition, estimation, etc.; elevate or exalt: His first book lifted him from obscurity. By hard work they lifted themselves from poverty.
- : to make audible or louder, as the voice or something voiced: The congregation lifted their voices in song.
- : to transfer from one setting to another: For the protagonist of the new play, the author has lifted a character from an early novel.
- : Informal. to plagiarize: Whole passages had been lifted from another book.
- : Informal. to steal: His wallet was lifted on the crowded subway.
- : airlift.
- : to remove from the ground, as after harvest or for transplanting.
- : Horology. to move by moving along the outer, oblique face.
- : to pay off.
- : Golf. to pick up, as to move it from an unplayable lie.
- : to perform a surgical face lifting on.
- : Shipbuilding. to transfer from a drawing, model, etc., to a piece being built.to form according to a drawing, model, etc.
- : to cease temporarily from directing on an objective or area: They lifted the fire when the infantry began to advance.
- : Fox Hunting. to take from the line of a fox to where it has just been seen.
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- : to go up; yield to upward pressure: The box is too heavy to lift. The lid won't lift.
- : to pull or strain upward in the effort to raise something: to lift at a heavy weight.
- : to move upward or rise; rise and disperse, as clouds or fog.
- : to stop temporarily.
- : to rise to view above the horizon when approached, as land seen from the sea.
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- : the act of lifting, raising, or rising: the lift of a hand.
- : the distance that anything rises or is raised: a lift of 20 feet between canal locks.
- : a lifting or raising force: A kite depends on the wind to act as its lift.
- : the weight, load, or quantity lifted.
- : an act or instance of helping to climb or mount: He gave her a lift onto the wagon.
- : a ride in a vehicle, especially one given to a pedestrian: Can you give me a lift across town?
- : a feeling of exaltation or uplift: Their visit gave me quite a lift.
- : assistance or aid: The fund-raiser's successful efforts proved a great lift for the organization.
- : a device or apparatus for lifting: a hydraulic lift.
- : a movement in which a dancer, skater, etc., lifts up his partner.
- : Skiing. ski lift. chairlift.
- : British. elevator. any device used to lift or elevate, as a dumbwaiter or hoist.
- : Informal. a theft.
- : a rise or elevation of ground.
- : 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.
- : Nautical. the capacity of a cargo ship measured in dead-weight tons.topping lift.
- : one of the layers of leather forming the heel of a boot or shoe.
- : a special arch support built or inserted into footwear.
- : Mining. the slice or thickness of ore mined in one operation.
- : Building Trades. the height of the quantity of concrete poured into a form at one time.
- : Naval Architecture. any of the horizontal planks forming a type of half model , able to be removed and measured as a guide to laying out the water lines of the vessel at full scale.
- : Typesetting. fat.
- : Printing. the quantity of paper loaded into or removed from a press or other printing machine at one time.
- : Horology. the displacement of a pallet by an escape wheel that has been unlocked.the angle through which the pallet passes when so displaced.
- : airlift.
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There are many more, but these items are relatively simple and if businesses did them, they would see a near-term lift in visibility and conversions.
It offers 13 inches of vertical lift, 360 degrees of rotation and 75 degrees of tilt, which allow it to be flexible in a variety of workspace conditions including sit-and-stand desks and creative studios.
Though electric forces alone are not enough to explain dust lift on Mars, the forces “are critical in the dust-lifting process and should be taken into account,” says Germán Martínez of the Lunar and Planetary Institute in Houston.
However, some brands are seeing revenue lift in large part due to added virtual events, including Teen Vogue and its Teen Vogue Prom franchise that took place this spring.
That generates lift — upward force that helps an object stay in the air.
For every nanosecond that I miraculously lift off the ground, I land with an inordinately loud thud.
Specifically, the pilots got themselves into a high altitude stall, where the wings lose the capacity to provide lift.
The Kurds claimed at least 100 Islamic militants were killed in the two-day battle to lift the siege.
But only Congress has the ability to completely lift the trade embargo, which has been in place since 1962.
And for those seeking a quick fix: Studies show that light therapy can spur a mood lift in just several days.
The hopes of a man that is void of understanding are vain and deceitful: and dreams lift up fools.
Lift up thy hand over the strange nations, that they may see thy power.
Though, as everybody well knew, the doctor had forbidden her to lift so much as a pin!
He rose upon it, it was under him, he felt its lift and irresistible momentum; almost it bore him up the steps.
A girl was moved to pity by a picture of a lamb caught in a thicket, and tried to lift the branch that lay across the animal.