Definitions from Wiktionary (lift)
▸ verb: (ambitransitive) To raise or rise.
▸ verb: (transitive, slang) To steal.
▸ verb: (transitive, slang) To source directly without acknowledgement; to plagiarise.
▸ verb: (transitive, slang) To arrest (a person).
▸ verb: (transitive) To remove (a ban, restriction, etc.).
▸ verb: (transitive) To alleviate, to lighten (pressure, tension, stress, etc.)
▸ verb: (transitive) to cause to move upwards.
▸ verb: (informal, intransitive) To lift weights; to weight-lift.
▸ verb: To try to raise something; to exert the strength for raising or bearing.
▸ verb: To elevate or improve in rank, condition, etc.; often with up.
▸ verb: (obsolete) To bear; to support.
▸ verb: To collect, as moneys due; to raise.
▸ verb: (category theory, transitive) Given morphisms f and g with the same target: To produce a morphism which the given morphism factors through (i.e. a morphism h such that f=g∘h; cf. lift n.18)
▸ verb: (programming) To transform (a function) into a corresponding function in a different context.
▸ verb: (finance) To buy a security or other asset previously offered for sale.
▸ verb: (hunting, transitive) To take (hounds) off the existing scent and move them to another spot.
▸ noun: An act of lifting or raising.
▸ noun: The act of transporting someone in a vehicle; a ride; a trip.
▸ noun: (UK, Australia and New Zealand, puristic elsewhere) Mechanical device for vertically transporting goods or people between floors in a building.
▸ noun: An upward force; especially, the force (generated by wings, rotary wings, or airfoils) that keeps aircraft aloft.
▸ noun: (measurement) The difference in elevation between the upper pool and lower pool of a waterway, separated by lock.
▸ noun: (historical slang) A thief.
▸ noun: (dance) The lifting of a dance partner into the air.
▸ noun: Permanent construction with a built-in platform that is lifted vertically.
▸ noun: (figurative) An improvement in mood.
▸ noun: The amount or weight to be lifted.
▸ noun: The space or distance through which anything is lifted.
▸ noun: A rise; a degree of elevation.
▸ noun: A liftgate.
▸ noun: (nautical) A rope leading from the masthead to the extremity of a yard below, and used for raising or supporting the end of the yard.
▸ noun: (engineering) One of the steps of a cone pulley.
▸ noun: (shoemaking) A layer of leather in the heel of a shoe.
▸ noun: (horology) That portion of the vibration of a balance during which the impulse is given.
▸ noun: (category theory) A morphism which some given morphism factors through; i.e. given a pair of morphisms f:X→Y and g:Z→Y, a morphism h such that f=g∘h. (In this case h is said to be a lift of f via Z or via g).
▸ noun: (UK dialectal, chiefly Scotland) Air.
▸ noun: (UK dialectal, chiefly Scotland) The sky; the heavens; firmament; atmosphere.
▸ Also see lift
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▸ verb: (ambitransitive) To raise or rise.
▸ verb: (transitive, slang) To steal.
▸ verb: (transitive, slang) To source directly without acknowledgement; to plagiarise.
▸ verb: (transitive, slang) To arrest (a person).
▸ verb: (transitive) To remove (a ban, restriction, etc.).
▸ verb: (transitive) To alleviate, to lighten (pressure, tension, stress, etc.)
▸ verb: (transitive) to cause to move upwards.
▸ verb: (informal, intransitive) To lift weights; to weight-lift.
▸ verb: To try to raise something; to exert the strength for raising or bearing.
▸ verb: To elevate or improve in rank, condition, etc.; often with up.
▸ verb: (obsolete) To bear; to support.
▸ verb: To collect, as moneys due; to raise.
▸ verb: (category theory, transitive) Given morphisms f and g with the same target: To produce a morphism which the given morphism factors through (i.e. a morphism h such that f=g∘h; cf. lift n.18)
▸ verb: (programming) To transform (a function) into a corresponding function in a different context.
▸ verb: (finance) To buy a security or other asset previously offered for sale.
▸ verb: (hunting, transitive) To take (hounds) off the existing scent and move them to another spot.
▸ noun: An act of lifting or raising.
▸ noun: The act of transporting someone in a vehicle; a ride; a trip.
▸ noun: (UK, Australia and New Zealand, puristic elsewhere) Mechanical device for vertically transporting goods or people between floors in a building.
▸ noun: An upward force; especially, the force (generated by wings, rotary wings, or airfoils) that keeps aircraft aloft.
▸ noun: (measurement) The difference in elevation between the upper pool and lower pool of a waterway, separated by lock.
▸ noun: (historical slang) A thief.
▸ noun: (dance) The lifting of a dance partner into the air.
▸ noun: Permanent construction with a built-in platform that is lifted vertically.
▸ noun: (figurative) An improvement in mood.
▸ noun: The amount or weight to be lifted.
▸ noun: The space or distance through which anything is lifted.
▸ noun: A rise; a degree of elevation.
▸ noun: A liftgate.
▸ noun: (nautical) A rope leading from the masthead to the extremity of a yard below, and used for raising or supporting the end of the yard.
▸ noun: (engineering) One of the steps of a cone pulley.
▸ noun: (shoemaking) A layer of leather in the heel of a shoe.
▸ noun: (horology) That portion of the vibration of a balance during which the impulse is given.
▸ noun: (category theory) A morphism which some given morphism factors through; i.e. given a pair of morphisms f:X→Y and g:Z→Y, a morphism h such that f=g∘h. (In this case h is said to be a lift of f via Z or via g).
▸ noun: (UK dialectal, chiefly Scotland) Air.
▸ noun: (UK dialectal, chiefly Scotland) The sky; the heavens; firmament; atmosphere.
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