Main entry: raise, lift, heave
Definition: the act of raising something
Usage: he responded with a lift of his eyebrow; fireman learn several different raises for getting ladders up
Main entry: lift
Definition: a ride in a car
Usage: he gave me a lift home
Definition: transportation of people or goods by air (especially when other means of access are unavailable)
Main entry: face lift, face lifting, facelift, cosmetic surgery, lift, nip and tuck, rhytidectomy, rhytidoplasty
Definition: plastic surgery to remove wrinkles and other signs of aging from your face; an incision is made near the hair line and skin is pulled back and excess tissue is excised
Usage: some actresses have more than one face lift
Main entry: lift
Definition: the act of giving temporary assistance
Definition: lifting device consisting of a platform or cage that is raised and lowered mechanically in a vertical shaft in order to move people from one floor to another in a building
Main entry: lift
Definition: one of the layers forming the heel of a shoe or boot
Main entry: lift
Definition: a device worn in a shoe or boot to make the wearer look taller or to correct a shortened leg
Main entry: ski lift, ski tow, lift
Definition: a powered conveyance that carries skiers up a hill
Definition: a wave that lifts the surface of the water or ground
Main entry: lift, raising, elevation
Definition: the event of something being raised upward
Usage: an elevation of the temperature in the afternoon; a raising of the land resulting from volcanic activity
Main entry: aerodynamic lift, lift
Definition: the component of the aerodynamic forces acting on an airfoil that opposes gravity
Definition: perform cosmetic surgery on someone's face
Main entry: lift
Definition: remove from a surface
Usage: the detective carefully lifted some fingerprints from the table
Main entry: lift
Definition: take off or away by decreasing
Usage: lift the pressure
Main entry: lift
Definition: remove from a seedbed or from a nursery
Usage: lift the tulip bulbs
Main entry: lift
Definition: remove (hair) by scalping
Definition: put an end to
Usage: lift a ban; raise a siege
Main entry: lift
Definition: rise upward, as from pressure or moisture
Usage: The floor is lifting slowly
Main entry: raise, elevate, lift
Definition: raise in rank or condition
Usage: The new law lifted many people from poverty
Definition: invigorate or heighten
Usage: lift my spirits; lift his ego
Main entry: lift
Definition: call to stop the hunt or to retire, as of hunting dogs
Main entry: vacate, countermand, overturn, lift, annul, repeal, rescind, reverse, revoke
Definition: cancel officially
Usage: He revoked the ban on smoking; lift an embargo; vacate a death sentence
Main entry: lift
Definition: make audible
Usage: He lifted a war whoop
Main entry: lift
Definition: take (root crops) out of the ground
Usage: lift potatoes
Definition: fly people or goods to or from places not accessible by other means
Usage: Food is airlifted into Bosnia
Definition: raise or haul up with or as if with mechanical help
Usage: hoist the bicycle onto the roof of the car
Main entry: lift
Definition: take hold of something and move it to a different location
Usage: lift the box onto the table
Main entry: lift, come up, rise, move up, go up, arise, uprise
Definition: move upward
Usage: The fog lifted; The smoke arose from the forest fire; The mist uprose from the meadows
Definition: move upwards
Usage: lift one's eyes
Main entry: lift, raise, get up, bring up, elevate
Definition: raise from a lower to a higher position
Usage: Raise your hands; Lift a load
Main entry: abstract, filch, hook, snarf, sneak, nobble, swipe, cabbage, pilfer, pinch, purloin, lift
Definition: make off with belongings of others
Definition: take illegally
Usage: rustle cattle
Main entry: plagiarise, plagiarize, lift
Definition: take without referencing from someone else's writing or speech; of intellectual property
Main entry: lift
Definition: pay off (a mortgage)
Definition: rise up
Usage: The building rose before them