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.
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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.
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.
The realm of small lift overflows with news in this edition.
If a deal is made soon, Hamrick believes “the market could get a short term lift from any positive development with respect to relief, because what we’re really talking about is applying some much-needed first aid to the economy,” he notes.
For example, it now works with Nielsen’s esports team on brand lift studies and does brand equity studies in partnership with Twitch.
Taylor said its educational TV advertising and the use of additional in-store navigational and educational signage helped deliver “an immediate lift” to its homecare category.
While all publishers have seen traffic hikes, not all have benefited from corresponding ad revenue lifts, which have been thwarted by overwrought keyword blocking and direct ad deals on hiatus.
Helicopters lifted pregnant women and children to safety first.
A ban on the ringing of church bells, lifted in 1941, was reimposed.
Once I got over that hurdle, it was as if a huge weight had lifted and I was not scared anymore.
On one summer lunch hour, Donna Ann Levonuk, 50, lifted a tub of diaper cream priced at $43.98—and then stashed it in her purse.
Unless Cuba sends them back, you might consider following the now lifted embargo with your own personal boycott.
She walked away toward another door, which was masked with a curtain that she lifted.
She looked up in his face, leaning on his arm beneath the encircling shadow of the umbrella which he had lifted.
The little pig in the box felt himself being lifted out of the wagon.
Then the boy lifted out the comical little pig, and Squinty found himself inside a large box, very much like the pen at home.
He lifted his head, looked around him, and was just going to switch off the light, when he noticed the open book on his table.