lift¹ /lift/

1. To bring or take (often with up) to a higher or (with down) lower position
2. To elevate
3. To take up
4. To elate, encourage
5. To take and carry away
6. To hold up, support
7. To arrest (slang)
8. To steal (informal)
9. To plagiarize
10. To remove or revoke
11. In a foundry, to remove a pattern from a mould
12. To take up for burial (Scot)
13. To increase (in value, price, etc) (esp US)

To rise

1. An act of lifting
2. Lifting power
3. Vertical distance of lifting
4. An enclosed platform or cagelike structure moving in a vertical shaft to carry people or goods up and down
5. The shaft in which it works
6. The component of the aerodynamic force on an aircraft acting upwards at right angles to the drag
7. Something which is to be raised
8. Something which assists in lifting
9. One of the layers of material in a shoe heel, esp an extra one to increase the wearer's height
10. A mechanism for raising or lowering a vessel to another level of a canal
11. A step in advancement, promotion, etc
12. A boost to one's spirits
13. A feeling of elation
14. A (usu free) journey in someone else's vehicle

liftˈable adjective

liftˈer noun

1. Someone who, or something which, lifts
2. A thief (Shakespeare)

liftˈback noun

A car with a sloping rear door lifting up from the bottom, a hatchback

liftˈ-boy, liftˈ-girl or liftˈ-man noun

A person whose job is to operate a lift in a hotel, store, etc

lift gate noun

A device at the rear of a lorry, etc for lifting items of cargo to the required height for loading

liftˈing-bridge noun

A bridge whose roadway can be raised bodily

liftˈ-off noun

1. The take-off of an aircraft or rocket
2. The moment when this occurs

lift pump noun

Any pump that is not a force pump

have one's face lifted

To undergo an operation for smoothing and firming the skin of one's face

lift a finger or hand (to)

To make the smallest effort (to help, etc)

lift a or one's hand (to)

To raise it in hostility (to), to threaten physically

lift off

Of a rocket, etc, to take off, be launched

lift² /lift/ (Scot)

The air, heavens or sky

• scrowdge
• scrowdged
• scrowdges
• scrowdging
• scrowl
• scrowle
• scrows
• scroyle
• scroyles
• scrub
• scrubbed
• scrubber
• scrubbers
• scrubbier
• scrubbiest
• scrubbing
• scrubbing-board
• scrubbing-boards
• scrubbing-brush
• scrubbing-brushes
• scrubbings
• scrub bird
• scrub birds
• scrubby
• scrub fowl