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to bark; yelp. |
to swindle, cheat, hoodwink, or hoax. |
lift1 (lɪft) | |
—vb | |
1. | to rise or cause to rise upwards from the ground or another support to a higher place: to lift a sack |
2. | to move or cause to move upwards: to lift one's eyes |
3. | (tr) to take hold of in order to carry or remove: to lift something down from a shelf |
4. | (tr) to raise in status, spirituality, estimation, etc: his position lifted him from the common crowd |
5. | (tr) to revoke or rescind: to lift tax restrictions |
6. | to make or become audible or louder: to lift one's voice in song |
7. | (tr) to take (plants or underground crops) out of the ground for transplanting or harvesting |
8. | (intr) to disappear by lifting or as if by lifting: the fog lifted |
9. | to transport in a vehicle |
10. | informal (tr) to take unlawfully or dishonourably; steal |
11. | informal (tr) to make dishonest use of (another person's idea, writing, etc); plagiarize |
12. | slang (tr) to arrest |
13. | (tr) to perform a face-lift on |
14. | (US), (Canadian) (tr) to pay off (a mortgage, etc) |
—n | |
15. | the act or an instance of lifting |
16. | the power or force available or used for lifting |
17. | a. (Brit) US and Canadian word: elevator a platform, compartment, or cage raised or lowered in a vertical shaft to transport persons or goods in a building |
b. chairlift See ski lift | |
18. | the distance or degree to which something is lifted |
19. | a usually free ride as a passenger in a car or other vehicle |
20. | a rise in the height of the ground |
21. | a rise in morale or feeling of cheerfulness usually caused by some specific thing or event |
22. | the force required to lift an object |
23. | a layer of the heel of a shoe, etc, or a detachable pad inside the shoe to give the wearer added height |
24. | aid; help |
25. | mining |
a. the thickness of ore extracted in one operation | |
b. a set of pumps used in a mine | |
26. | a. the component of the aerodynamic forces acting on a wing, etc, at right angles to the airflow |
b. the upward force exerted by the gas in a balloon, airship, etc | |
27. | See airlift |
[C13: from Scandinavian; related to Old Norse lypta, Old English lyft sky; compare | |
'liftable1 | |
—adj | |
'lifter1 | |
—n |
lift (lĭft) Pronunciation Key
An upward force acting on an object. Lift can be produced in many ways; for example, by creating a low-pressure area above an object, such an airplane wing or other airfoil that is moving through the air, or by lowering the overall density of an object relative to the air around it, as with a hot air balloon. Compare drag. See also airfoil, buoyancy. See Note at aerodynamics. |
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