Definition of lift

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Lift (n.) A hoisting machine; an elevator; a dumb waiter.

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Dolphin :: Dolphin (n.) In old ordnance, one of the handles above the trunnions by which the gun was lifted..
Lift :: Lift (n.) The sky; the atmosphere; the firmament.
Elate :: Elate (a.) Lifted up; raised; elevated.
Upbuoyance :: Upbuoyance (n.) The act of buoying up; uplifting.
Exalt :: Exalt (v. t.) To raise high; to elevate; to lift up.
Bucket :: Bucket (n.) The valved piston of a lifting pump.
Erect :: Erect (a.) Directed upward; raised; uplifted.
Lift :: Lift (v. t.) To bear; to support.
Wiper :: Wiper (n.) A piece generally projecting from a rotating or swinging piece, as an axle or rock shaft, for the purpose of raising stampers, lifting rods, or the like, and leaving them to fall by their own weight; a kind of cam..
Windbore :: Windbore (n.) The lower, or bottom, pipe in a lift of pumps in a mine..
Lift :: Lift (v. t.) To move in a direction opposite to that of gravitation; to raise; to elevate; to bring up from a lower place to a higher; to upheave; sometimes implying a continued support or holding in the higher place; -- said of material things; as, to lift the foot or the hand; to lift a chair or a burden..
Lift :: Lift (n.) One of the steps of a cone pulley.
Lifter :: Lifter (n.) One who, or that which, lifts..
Sublime :: Sublime (superl.) Lifted up; high in place; exalted aloft; uplifted; lofty.
High :: High (superl.) Elevated above any starting point of measurement, as a line, or surface; having altitude; lifted up; raised or extended in the direction of the zenith; lofty; tall; as, a high mountain, tower, tree; the sun is high..
Strain :: Strain (n.) A violent effort; an excessive and hurtful exertion or tension, as of the muscles; as, he lifted the weight with a strain; the strain upon a ship's rigging in a gale; also, the hurt or injury resulting; a sprain..
Heave :: Heave (v. t.) To cause to move upward or onward by a lifting effort; to lift; to raise; to hoist; -- often with up; as, the wave heaved the boat on land..
Uphold :: Uphold (v. t.) To hold up; to lift on high; to elevate.
Elevator :: Elevator (n.) A cage or platform and the hoisting machinery in a hotel, warehouse, mine, etc., for conveying persons, goods, etc., to or from different floors or levels; -- called in England a lift; the cage or platform itself..
Shovel :: Shovel (v. t.) An implement consisting of a broad scoop, or more or less hollow blade, with a handle, used for lifting and throwing earth, coal, grain, or other loose substances..
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