Lift
The sky; the atmosphere; the firmament.
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.
To raise, elevate, exalt, improve, in rank, condition, estimation, character, etc.; -- often with up.
To bear; to support.
To collect, as moneys due; to raise.
To steal; to carry off by theft (esp. cattle); as, to lift a drove of cattle.
To try to raise something; to exert the strength for raising or bearing.
To rise; to become or appear raised or elevated; as, the fog lifts; the land lifts to a ship approaching it.
To live by theft.
Act of lifting; also, that which is lifted.
The space or distance through which anything is lifted; as, a long lift.
Help; assistance, as by lifting; as, to give one a lift in a wagon.
That by means of which a person or thing lifts or is lifted
A hoisting machine; an elevator; a dumb waiter.
A handle.
An exercising machine.
A rise; a degree of elevation; as, the lift of a lock in canals.
A lift gate. See Lift gate, below.
A rope leading from the masthead to the extremity of a yard below; -- used for raising or supporting the end of the yard.
One of the steps of a cone pulley.
A layer of leather in the heel.
That portion of the vibration of a balance during which the impulse is given.
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Lift Quotations
If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
People still think of me as a cartoonist, but the only thing I lift a pen or pencil for these days is to sign a contract, a check, or an autograph.
Walt Disney
Are you laboring under the impression that I read these memoranda of yours? I can't even lift them.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
You will find men who want to be carried on the shoulders of others, who think that the world owes them a living. They don't seem to see that we must all lift together and pull together.
Henry Ford
Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher.
Oprah Winfrey
I once saw a forklift lift a crate of forks. And it was way to literal for me.
Mitch Hedberg
Youngsters of the age of two and three are endowed with extraordinary strength. They can lift a dog twice their own weight and dump him into the bathtub.
Erma Bombeck
What we face may look insurmountable. But I learned something from all those years of training and competing. I learned something from all those sets and reps when I didn't think I could lift another ounce of weight. What I learned is that we are always stronger than we know.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
All emotions are pure which gather you and lift you up; that emotion is impure which seizes only one side of your being and so distorts you.
Rainer Maria Rilke
If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
Booker T. Washington
Lift Translations
lift in Afrikaans is optrek, hyser, styg
lift in Dutch is opgraven, rooien
lift in Finnish is nostaa
lift in Portuguese is ascensor, elevador
lift in Spanish is cscensor, subir, ascensor, cscensor, levantar
lift in Swedish is hiss, lyfta
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