1with object Raise to a higher position or level.

1. 1.1 Move (one's eyes or face) to face upwards and look at someone or something.
   he lifted his eyes for an instant

   Example sentencesExamples

   • A robust woman to my left continues sucking her lollipop; another, to my right, studiously resists lifting her eyes from a copy of King Lear.
   • I stood on my feet and narrowed my eyes, lifting my face.
   • He stopped and closed his eyes, lifting his face to the sky.
   • He paused as the woman moved away, then lifted his eyes to the ceiling again.
   • She stays like that, lifting her face and her camera to the heavens, in the squawking aerial universe of all these flying creatures.
   • Bent in two, I lifted my eyes and saw a roiling, black plume of ash and debris ascending into the sky.
   • Then some of them watch it on TV in the press box rather than lift their eyes two inches to see it for real.
   • This means nothing to me, because I'd not lift my eyes to find out what it was called.
   • I sat close to the fire, gazing into the glowing heart of it, and then lifting my eyes to the brightening stars.
   • She closed her eyes and lifted her face up to the skies, feeling the gentle breeze caress her face as she slowly let go of everything on her mind.
   • Instead, let's lift our eyes and see how wide the American horizon has become.
   • Something stirs within me and I slowly lift my eyes to meet your glare.
   • I stole fifteen minutes to go and sit on the patio, closing my eyes and lifting my face to the sun.
   • He rocks, shuffles and chews a plastic bottle, then sits in that distressingly human way bears have with his back to the wall and lifts his face to a glimmer of watery sunshine.
   • I didn't lift my face to look at her but spoke into her body.
   • A veil of acknowledgment swept across her face as she slowly lifted her eyes and shifted her expression to see me.
   • And for the first time that day, Valerie lifted her eyes upwards and almost gasped at where she had wandered to.
   • She closed her eyes and lifted her face to the sun poking momentarily from behind the clouds.
   • He called upon the gathered journalists from Canada, Britain, the US and the region to lift their eyes from the mud and look up at the stars.
   • We must lift our eyes from the misleading and myopic platitudes of our politicians and look to the future.
2. 1.2no object Move upwards; be raised.
   Thomas's eyelids drowsily lifted

   Example sentencesExamples

   • But her voice lifted and wavered, and it ended up a question more than it was a statement.
   • Once, when she was in elementary school, the nun stood at the front of a church filled with children out in the pews with their voices lifted in song.
   • He ducked in behind the cargo ship, which was lifting sluggishly upwards.
   • You will have to ensure the sub-floor is level, and if in doubt install a hardboard surface to take the tiles and ensure they will not shift and lift in the future.
   • The lid easily lifted off of the box.
   • At the same time, the deck lid lifts up and out of the way and the package shelf lifts up and moves back to meet the top.
   • Contracting her abs, she keeps her chin lifted and raises her upper torso as high as possible.
   • Watch the miraculous gift of breath, as your diaphragm lifts up and pulls down.
   • I brought the tape home so my family could hear the 125 voices lifted in song.
   • What better time to hear gay and lesbian voices lifted in song?
   • Even before she spoke, Gerald's head lifted upwards and he sniffed the air hopefully.
   • But the voices lifted, and hands gestured for me to start, drowning out my own movements.
   • His outside ears lift up, moving at the strange sounds.
   • Chris and Giovanni turned towards the energetic voice, eyebrows lifted.
   • Grandma's old eyelids lifted and her mouth fell open all at once.
   • His eye-lids lifted and he managed a quirk of a smile in greeting.
   • His eyelids lifted, and his blue eyes focused directly on her.
   • By the end of the telling her voice had lifted and she herself shared a giggle at the overall predicament.
3. 1.3no object (of a cloud, fog, etc.) move upwards or away.
   the factory smoke hung low, never lifted

   Example sentencesExamples

   • I can't say I left with complete certainty and understanding, but some of the fog had lifted.
   • A cloud has lifted following the change in management.
   • The fog was lifting, revealing a grey sky, and a metallic coloured ocean.
   • We drove back towards York, and the clouds slowly lifted as we came down Garrowby Hill and through Stamford Bridge.
   • The fog lifted at least, and Haley's eyes fluttered apart at last.
   • The fog is lifting, but too slowly, and we are just approaching one-quarter mile now.
   • He noticed that there was a fog lifting and it was obscuring the moonlight.
   • As if in response, the rain had stopped, the clouds had lifted, and a welcome southern sun was shining.
   • The storm clouds lift, the storm clouds descend.
   • When the clouds lift, you can see a patchwork of clearcuts and roads carved into the slopes.
   • Fifteen minutes later the clouds lifted and the sun began to shine again.
   • Nor does it see the clouds lifting soon, whoever wins today's election.
   • The dark and dirge-like clouds lift for a few rays of petrified beauty in melodies or in single, sustaining piano notes, achieving a smooth, even balance.
   • The dark cloud has lifted to reveal a red haze, if you will.
   • Once the fog lifted from his tortured mind the crystal-clear clarity of yesteryear returned with another story.
   • On Tuesday afternoon, clouds lifted from the site for the first time.
   • The fog had lifted somewhat when we arrived, which is why they were able to successfully land.
   • The opening quarter had been spoiled by a torrential downpour but as the clouds lifted, the action heated up.
   • Yet when the clamour died away, the mists lifted to reveal what had been achieved.
   • However in the afternoon the fog lifted for a few hours to reveal the magnificent ship in all her glory.

   Synonyms

   clear, rise, disperse, dissipate, disappear, vanish, dissolve, be dispelled, thin out, scatter
4. 1.4 Increase the volume of (one's voice)
   she lifted her voice in a great shout

   Willie sang boldly, lifting up his voice

   Example sentencesExamples

   • So when some police officers do that, my voice will be lifted primarily to find out why they would do such a thing, not to call for their heads.
   • Before he climbed into the back seat, he turned to the house and lifted his voice to its full volume.

   Synonyms

   amplify, raise, make louder, louden, increase
5. 1.5 Increase (a price or amount)
   the building society lifted its interest rates by 0.75 of a point

   Example sentencesExamples

   • Asian suppliers are lifting prices as demand remains strong and material costs increase.
   • If the Reserve Bank lifts rates this week it will shock the markets, but few will be surprised if rates rise again by year's end.
   • Farmers are now expecting prices to lift by an equivalent amount.
   • By hitting production and refining capacity it has pushed up an already high oil price, lifted petrol prices and led to shortages.
   • The arable sector is more difficult to predict but the appalling weather, combined with increased demand from the animal feed sector, could lift prices to compensate at least in part.
   • It is simply a method by which the overall ‘health’ levels will be lifted.
   • The company lifted its vehicle-use gas price by 0.2 yuan to 2.1 yuan per cubic metre last month.
   • The rally in oil prices should lift profits at the oil company's exploration and production division.
   • The enormous wartime demand lifted prices and finally ended more than a decade of calamity and collapse on the American farm.
   • Investors want businesses to concentrate on pumping up the bottom line and lifting stock prices.
   • Refining alcohol would use tapioca as a raw material and the new industry is expected to lift the price of this agricultural product.
   • The lamb trade is lifting steadily and a price of 165p is now standard with the better quality continental sheep making up to 170p/kilo.
   • The ability to boost prices is helping to lift margins despite rising costs.
   • It warned that it expected raw material prices to lift by a similar amount this year.
   • Australia's shipping lines are lifting prices to get back in the black.
   • That should spark the economy and corporate profit growth, lifting stock prices, investors say.
   • This prompted tracker funds to buy the stock, lifting the share price even higher.
   • The level has now been lifted from the 1992 level to be equal to the adjusted consumer price index for this year, 2004.
   • It is perfectly true that an individual firm, or even several firms, can increase profits by monopolizing their product markets and lifting the price.
   • In addition to war fears, oil prices were also lifted by a snowstorm which hit the east of the US over the weekend.

   Synonyms

   increase, raise, lift
6. 1.6 Hit or kick (a ball) high into the air.
   Example sentencesExamples

   • In the ninth, the devilish player lifted a long fly ball that fell behind him in center for a pinch-hit triple.
   • The second lifted alarmingly off a length but was down the leg side and Bradman was able to duck and let it past.
   • With the ball lifted over his closest marker, he dispatched a powerful half volley.
   • Flintoff bowled a widish one which Kasprowicz lifted to third man, but a diving Simon Jones could not hold on.
   • A bowler who exerts a lot of energy into lifting and turning the ball to get a lot of revolutions and hook.
   • The batter lifted a short fly ball to center field where the Orioles' Jackie Brandt made a shoe-string catch of the ball.
   • Huckerby looked odds-on to score as he lifted the ball towards goal but Michael Oakes read the situation well and made an outstanding block.
   • He'll never hit long homers, but he has such remarkable bat control that he can alter his swing to lift the ball.
   • When you have to lift or flip the ball into the air, you bring more moving parts into play, and this hurts your feel.
   • On the next pitch, Dent lifted a high fly ball toward left field.
   • When they're both going, it's like watching two thrashing machines, one crashing the ball through gully and point and the other lifting anything within reach over mid wicket.
   • Howell lifted the resultant free kick over the bar.
7. 1.7 Improve the rank or position of (a person or team)
   this victory lifted United into third place

   Example sentencesExamples

   • The victory was enough to lift Harden up to third from bottom, leaving Thackley and Silsden in the relegation zone with two games to go.
   • In La Liga, he scored 16 goals and created many more with his passes and runs off the ball, lifting Real to a league championship.
   • Many fans are asking for a player clear-out to lift the team off the bottom of the Superleague.
   • Cooke kicked his fifth goal from six attempts to polish off a memorable win which lifts Hull into fourth place.
   • It lifted him into third place, nine shots off the pace.
   • The inimitable spring is still there, although no longer quite as powerful as a decade ago when it lifted him head and shoulders above the English game.
   • It would be easy for Kitna to be angry; he played a major role in lifting the team from awful to competitive last year.
   • His direct running has caused problems for defences and his increased goal threat has lifted him to the top of the scoring charts at Man City with nine goals.
   • His healthy cheque lifts him to 30th on the money list but I think a new approach to the tour will bring more victories for the young man from Perth.
   • He is considered a mid - to late-round pick at this point, but a strong postseason could lift him to as high as the third round.
   • It is Woods' fourth Masters title and his ninth Major Championship victory, and the win lifts him back to number one in the world.
   • Haga's double victory lifted him from fourth to third in the overall rankings.
   • His victory and talent therefore lifted him into the Elite category.
   • The victory over Rovers marked City's first three-point haul of September and lifted the Minstermen back up to fifth in the Division Three table.
   • There is a steel determination between both panel of players to lift Carlow to new levels and silence the critics once and for all.
8. 1.8 Perform cosmetic surgery on (part of the body) to reduce sagging.
   surgeons lift and remove excess skin from the face and neck

   Example sentencesExamples

   • The corneal periphery scars, and this is why a flap can be lifted months later for enhancement.
   • The skin will then be lifted up, pulled back and any excess will be trimmed off.
   • The mid-facelift is performed to lift this soft tissue back into a higher more youthful appearance.
   • This allows the nipple and areola complex to be lifted.
   • When surgeons perform a facelift they lift the skin of the face and neck and expose a raw surface.
9. 1.9 Dig up (plants or root vegetables)
   the end of September is the time to lift and store carrots

   Example sentencesExamples

   • After a number of years it may become necessary to lift crowded plantings of bulbs in order to spread them out and revitalize the soil.
   • Mulch heavily in fall, or if soil freezes, lift and store bulbs.
   • Most other glads need to be lifted and stored at the end of the growing season.
   • I've been told that lifting the bulbs, storing them for the summer and replanting them in the fall will improve their performance.
   • This can be done without any appreciable harm to the plant, though of course it is better to wait until the rhizomes have matured in July before lifting and planting.
   • Tender bulbs can be either treated as annuals and composted or tossed out, or they can be lifted and stored.
   • They should be well rooted within 12 months when they can be lifted and transplanted or potted up.
   • In most parts of the country, plants grown from tubers, as well as plants that have been lifted and stored over winter, should be started indoors.
   • Farmers can now produce two crops of new potatoes, by re-planting when they lift the first crop.
   • Cuttings should be left in place until autumn next year, when they can be lifted and transplanted.
   • These are among the small number of bulbs that prefer to be lifted and planted when they are green.
   • You can control it by removing the affected leaves, but badly diseased plants should be lifted and destroyed.
   • We have also started marking out a new design in what will become the flower garden, and some of the turf has already been lifted.
   • First, moisten the soil around the plant several days before lifting.
   • Cannas and dahlias may need to be lifted and stored.
   • Except in extreme northern zones, where they must be lifted in fall, Galtonia will withstand winter if planted in a sunny spot and heavily mulched.

   Synonyms

   dig up, pick, pull up, dig out of the ground, root out, unearth, take up

2with object and adverbial of direction Pick up and move to a different position.

1. 2.1 Transport by air.
   a helicopter lifted 11 crew to safety from the ship

   Example sentencesExamples

   • He had been lifted up here by helicopter.
   • Naval helicopters could not lift army Land Rovers.
   • The group's handful of foreign staff, who were not hurt, were waiting for an American helicopter to lift them from the compound.
   • Paratroopers who parachuted in will be lifted by crane back to their helicopters.
   • Everything, every single nut, bolt, screw, girder, steel cable, had to be lifted to those heights by helicopter, and winched down.
   • Among these were 2,132 people in isolated villages who were lifted out by helicopter.
   • Five men were injured and were lifted by medevac helicopter to another base.
   • He and a local fire fighter were lifted by helicopter from an area on the front line when air crew lost sight of the men through the smoke.
   • The large polar tents and camping gear would remain at the Lake Victoria campsite and be lifted out by helicopter later that season.
   • Blankets and oxygen were pulled over to the canoeists and rescuers, who were left on the island until the RAF helicopter arrived and lifted them one by one over to the river bank.
   • A second helicopter was dispatched to lift him seven hours later.
   • The exciting discovery was apparently made when researchers were forced to break open the leg bone of a Tyrannosaurus rex fossil to lift it by helicopter.
   • We asked for an army helicopter to come and lift him out.
   • She was air lifted by helicopter to Airedale General Hospital at Steeton with non-life-threatening injuries.
   • By the time a rescue helicopter lifted Don from the glacier, another storm threatened.
   • Four Army helicopters have lifted around 400 giant bags of stone up the Lake District fells to help in the repair of popular eroded paths.
   • It became so large that the aquarium arranged for it to be lifted by helicopter to the ocean.
   • Vertical replenishment primarily involves using helicopters to lift cargo from a supply ship to a combatant ship.
   • An RAF helicopter assisted the rescue, lifting both the climbers and team members to the bottom of the valley.
   • She was discovered by two men, who moved her on a sofa to higher ground, where she waited for a helicopter to lift her to hospital.

   Synonyms

   airlift, transport by air, transport, move, transfer, fly, convey, shift
2. 2.2 Enable (someone or something) to escape from an unpleasant situation.
   the best way to lift nations out of poverty is through trade

   Example sentencesExamples

   • But you will transcend these privations because New York on foot lifts you out of yourself, simply by being itself.
   • The deal is aimed at opening up global markets to producers from the developing world, enabling them to start lifting their countries out of poverty.
   • The idea was to lift the neediest children out of the cycle of poverty by helping them and their parents, all too often their lone mothers.
   • We had them rocking at one point, with Tom Greaves scoring a goal that lifted us.
   • She was an actress with an opera singer's voice and vocal skills, which enabled her to lift her performances out of the banal into the realms of realism.
   • Just half of the amount could pay off the international debt of 22 of the poorest countries in Africa, lifting millions of people out of poverty.

   Synonyms

   improve, boost, enhance, make better, invigorate, revitalize, upgrade, ameliorate

3with object Raise (a person's spirits or confidence)

1. 3.1no object (of a person's mood) become happier.
   suddenly his heart lifted and he could have wept with relief

   Example sentencesExamples

   • Her mood lifted momentarily at the thought of the couple, but it didn't last.
   • The sadness from the mass mood had lifted and everyone felt at ease.
   • He walked into the restaurant and the mood lifted.
   • By about 10: 30 I was awake again and the funk had lifted, so we set our sights on a first attempt at the Louvre.
   • I felt my morale lifting by discovering this simple fact.
   • The chemical depression lifts and you slowly start to become yourself again - with all that entails, ups and downs.
   • The only problem was that no matter what she did the boredom wouldn't lift.
   • At this point I am suddenly aware that the previous intense heaviness and feeling of irritation is lifting.
   • My heart began to lift at that point, as I realized that not everyone shared the same hatred for my family.
   • Another acknowledged the troops for a job well done, and morale lifted 100 percent.
   • His heart lifted and he feared he would float around if he could when he learned that she wanted to spend more time around him.
   • The sorrow lifted from his face and he smiled, giving me the urge to grab him and kiss him.
   • But as her depression lifted, in the spring, she would suddenly begin to notice it again.
   • That will give him enormous confidence and you can tell his mood is lifting.
   • Depression had lifted and he was relaxed and ‘feeling good’.
   • I thought my mood would miraculously lift once I didn't have to deal with hate mail and evil comments.
   • Thanks, but as you can see, her mood is finally lifting, thanks to Timmy, Robert, and some close friends.
   • Yet he advises patients to bear with it because the depression will ultimately lift and sleep problems diminish.
   • However, it was clear to see her droopy mood was lifting.
   • When the mood does lift, it does nothing to tarnish the wistful sadness of the record.

4with object Formally remove or end (a legal restriction, decision, or ban)

5with object Carry off or win (a prize or event)

1. 5.1 Use (a person's work or ideas) without permission or acknowledgement.
   this is a hackneyed adventure lifted straight from a vintage Lassie episode

   Example sentencesExamples

   • The congestion charge, introduced in London on Monday, has been lifted straight out of the professor's 1951 essay.
   • The material was lifted almost verbatim from a six-year-old book.
   • It could have been lifted straight out of the '80s.
   • I noted previously that it lifted quotes from their contexts out of the books of textual-criticism scholars.
   • Designers themselves lift for different purposes, depending on the work at hand.
   • These scenes could have been lifted straight out of the Middle Ages.
   • One passage was lifted almost verbatim from a speech Bush made in February 2002.
   • His arguments are lifted straight from standard young earth creationist sources, as are his methods.
   • And it adds piquancy to the tale that many of these changes appear to be lifted straight out of her own book of cultural reform.
   • Kicking off in 1944, the film opens with the type of prologue that could have been lifted straight from the Indiana Jones escapade, Raiders of the Lost Ark.
   • When the first hairstyle thief lifts your look, it will be said that they are copying your style rather than vice versa.
   • It is the kind of story which could have been lifted straight from the pages of one of her fictional tales.
   • The newspaper lifted the photos and used them in their advert.
   • Entire excerpts from previous movies are lifted, but with surreal twists on the already surreal situations insinuated to great comic success.

   Synonyms

   plagiarize, pirate, copy, reproduce, poach, steal, borrow

   informal crib, rip off, nick, pinch
2. 5.2informal Steal (something)
   he had been caught lifting a coat from a department store

   Example sentencesExamples

   • A Russian pensioner has been arrested after allegedly masterminding a scam geared to lifting the credit card number of Western tourists visiting Moscow cyber cafes.
   • He can also choose to pad his pockets by lifting the purses and jewels off passers-by as they walk through the streets.
   • Apparently he immediately dismissed me as harmless - I wasn't going to shoplift or lift the cash register.
   • Packed shopping centres are heaving with pickpockets, who lift thousands of credit cards a day at this time of year.
   • Punitive expeditions destroyed crops and stores and lifted cattle, leaving villagers to starve as a salutary lesson for resistance or revolt.
   • I can cut wood and build fires, make tents of skin, sniff out a trail, steal chickens and eggs both, lift purses..
   • He plays a high-stakes burglar who lifts the diamonds and then gets hoodwinked by a rival gang.
   • After surveying this web site, one gets the urge to check to see that your wallet has not been lifted.
   • What is going on in Vienna is flatly felonious behavior that is lifting billions of dollars from the pockets of American citizens.
   • The grey sports car was parked on Masonfield Crescent when burglars broke in to lift the keys and make their getaway in the early hours on Saturday.
   • Twenty-five per cent of house burglaries are sneak-ins and almost half are offences, where the burglar lifts keys from the house to steal the car.
   • ‘Two people lifted a spoon to shoot up with yesterday and just walked out,’ she says.

   Synonyms

   steal, thieve, rob, pilfer, purloin, pocket, snatch, take, appropriate, abstract, help oneself to
3. 5.3informal Arrest (someone)
   that night the army came and lifted Buckley

   Synonyms

   catch, apprehend, seize, arrest

1British A platform or compartment housed in a shaft for raising and lowering people or things to different levels.

1. 1.1 A device incorporating a moving cable for carrying people up or down a mountain.
   we zigzagged across the mountain from one lift to the next

   Example sentencesExamples

   • She needs time in downhill mode, and lifts are the way to get it.
   • Private investors are expected to inject a further 300 million euro into tourist infrastructure, lifts and ski-runs.
   • Development of vast acreages of adjacent public land for ski runs and lifts also takes its toll.
   • Why do we stretch to the limits of our stamina and sometimes risk our lives climbing mountains, when chair lifts and gondolas provide comfort?
   • The resort's East Mountain has a quad lift that serves skiers, snowboarders, and snow bikers.
   • However, the nursery slopes are also good and there are drag lifts, chair lifts and instructors to make it manageable.
   • Brando gave us a ride up the side of the mountain, to the first lift.
   • More than 80 lifts serve 220 kilometres of ski runs suitable for all abilities.
   • A maze of quality runs links lifts at the mountain top, the only fault being the lack of decent slopes heading back down into the town.
   • The year before, I had begun getting her used to the mountains by carrying her on lifts and skiing down gentle slopes, holding her in my arms like a baby kangaroo.
   • They snowboarded all over the mountain, using every lift and tow available to them.
   • With the fire brigade's ladders too short to reach the lift, a mountain rescue team was called in to help.
   • No, we don't envy them the parking problems, the lift lines, or even the lifts themselves.
   • The notice at the foot of the Grouse Mountain chair lift, warning that there are no easy routes from the top, means what it says.
   • It has enough variety to please any telemarker with more than 3000 feet of vertical drop and a dozen lifts.
   • Cruising up the side of the mountain on a chair lift, the cold thin air brought tears to my eyes and I marvelled at the beauty of the peaks, the snow, the trees.
   • But almost 50 square miles of ski mountaineering terrain make the lifts pale in comparison.
   • Can I climb mountains, ride a ski lift, and ski?
   • She rested her head on his shoulder as the lift slowly climbed the mountain.
   • It gives access to 125 miles of pistes and 460 lifts for around £100.
2. 1.2 A built-up heel or device worn in a boot or shoe to make the wearer appear taller or to correct shortening of a leg.
   Example sentencesExamples

   • Okay, now I understand the different heel lifts, but how do I rotate it?
   • To keep your Achilles tendons happy it even has adjustable heel lifts.
   • Differences greater than 2 cm may merit correction with heel lifts.
   • Plus he wears lifts in his shoes which is a little weird.
   • Showing more leg, when there is leg worth showing, will make you appear taller, as will a shoe with a little lift to it.
   • His critics like to joke that at 67, he still wears lifts in his shoes.
   • Can you recommend anyone who sells shoes with lifts?
   • I also get to wear little lifts in my shoes, which makes me feel like a total dork.
   • The patients were rehabilitated in a boot with a heel lift and were permitted full weightbearing as soon as tolerated.
   • On the other hand, folks who favor it say the double pivot compensates for the lower heel lift, and they say it thus has enough lift.
   • He's also got a penchant for shoe lifts to add to his 5 foot 7 inch height.
   • If not - and because she doesn't like wearing the lifts in her shoes - she will suffer back pain.
   • They also feature a heel lift for reduced lower leg stress on ascents and a simple binding system with a fixed pivot rod.
   • Some physicians have advocated the use of heel lifts to shorten the gastrocnemius muscle.
   • This season's styles range from sandals with barely a lift and lower heels, to teetering spikes that can do some serious damage.

2An act of lifting.

1. 2.1mass noun Upward force exerted by the air on an aerofoil or other structure, counteracting gravity.
   separate engines provide lift and generate forward speed

   Example sentencesExamples

   • The spoiler is a plate along the upper surface of an airplane wing, which functions to reduce the lift and increase its drag.
   • The phenomenon increases the ratio of lift to drag for a wing.
   • Bolt lift is increased, but for this purpose speed of fire is not a priority.
   • I worked some weak lift under a big cloud then raced for the smoke.
   • This helps increase lift, which is what you need at this point.
   • I find light lift under very thin clouds and drift quickly down wind in the 22 mph breeze.
   • Any secondary school physics text or pilot licence manual will tell you that aerofoils generate lift because of the Venturi effect.
   • If an airplane wing provides lift (an airfoil), how does a plane fly upside down?
   • Such torques are proposed to be counteracted anteriorly by lift forces generated by the head and pectoral fins.
   • Dimples on spinning golf balls reduce air resistance and increase lift by creating turbulence in the air flowing past the balls.
   • Ideally, you want to feel the airplane's lift as if you were feeling the traction of a car on ice through the steering wheel.
   • They plummeted as I stayed high and came in over their next weak lift.
   • Gliding works by having a gliding airfoil design that generates lift forces, keeping the animal in the air longer.
   • This makes it more agile, particularly at supersonic speeds; reduces drag; and gives it an overall increase in lift.
   • Use only approach flaps, since they help provide lift, whereas landing flaps mainly produce drag.
   • I didn't find any but the lightest lift and landed five miles short.
   • Flaps do more than increase lift; they also increase drag, change pitch attitudes and so forth.
   • It can decrease thrust, reduce lift, and increase drag.
   • We can work weak lift under the clouds and hang out.
   • The sudden loss of lift caused the airplane to descend rapidly to the runway.
2. 2.2 The maximum weight that an aircraft can raise.
   the Puma tactical transport helicopter has a total lift of up to 5,500 lb

   Example sentencesExamples

   • Just how large is the inertial force required to oscillate a wing relative to the total lift that the wing must support?
   • Under normal flying conditions, they do not increase the lift of the airplane or materially aid the maneuverability.
   • To sustain an airplane in the air it is enough that the lift be equal to the weight, but for an airplane take off the lift must be bigger than weight.
3. 2.3Cricket mass noun The tendency of a ball bowled to rise sharply on bouncing.
   Example sentencesExamples

   • However, eight balls later, a little extra lift from Zoysa was enough to snare India's maestro, the ball brushing his glove on the way through to Kaluwitharana.
   • He gained much lift and sharpness with his awkward wrong-footed deliveries.
   • The left-arm fast bowler, extracting much lift, bowled with hostility to contain the batsmen.
   • He was a tall man standing at 6ft and when bowling he used his height well, getting lift and speed off the pitch.
   • The others get so much spin and lift that they bowl far more wicket-taking deliveries.
4. 2.4 A rise in price, level, or amount.
   the company has already produced a 10 per cent lift in profits

   Example sentencesExamples

   • In the election it announced that it would provide tax refunds for first time babies with a view to encouraging a lift in the birth rate.
   • The price lift is not restricted to rice and oil.
   • There is nothing better than a lift in beef prices at the start of September to put more pep in the step of producers and yesterday was one of those days.
   • The monthly gain was the biggest in almost two years and received its biggest lift from a 10 percent sales jump.
   • Beef prices are not strong enough to encourage suppliers to want to sell, and some are considering letting cattle out to grass in the hope of a lift in beef prices in April.
   • The targeted commercials yielded a 3 percent lift in total volume in the last quarter of running the spots.
   • Any cut in interest rates next month, which is looking increasingly likely, will be too late to stimulate an end-of-year lift in consumer spending.
   • "Perhaps they are trying to give the share price a lift, " he said.
   • This victory will give Sligo a huge lift in confidence.
   • The politicians used the trust's billions to bestow favors on corporations whose share prices needed a lift or to bolster a sagging stock market.
   • It has been a big year with record profits, record sales and while a win in the ratings and a lift in profit margins.
   • But, at long last, we have seen a lift in the price and there is a little more stability.
   • Many people feel the urge for a caffeine or sugar lift at this time.
   • Indeed, as I have said, it would give every single property owner in this country an immediate lift in the amount of money that is left in his or her pocket.
   • And the third thing which has emerged just in the last few months in particular has been the big lift in commodity prices.
   • Any sign of encouragement could give a lift to shares, which have been trading near their all-time low point and are at a discount to others in the sector.
   • A win to level the series would be remarkable and would also serve as a great confidence lift prior to their trip to New Zealand tomorrow, where they will compete in a five-match series.
   • If the opinion of woolgrowers at a sheep industry seminar in Launceston is anything to go by, producers are pinning their hopes on a lift in prices.
   • And he predicts a big lift in goat prices is on the way.
   • But they appear to have escaped major damage, and that led to a drop in the oil price and a lift in US shares.

   Synonyms

   rise, leap, increase, upturn, upsurge, upswing, spiralling, escalation, elevation, boost, advance, augmentation
5. 2.5informal An instance of stealing or plagiarizing something.
   in a speech he adopted the President's familiar hand motions—it was a lift

3A free ride in another person's vehicle.

4in singular A feeling of confidence or cheerfulness.