the act of raising something; "he responded with a lift of his eyebrow"; "fireman learn several different raises for getting ladders up";
a ride in a car; "he gave me a lift home";
transportation of people or goods by air (especially when other means of access are unavailable);
plastic surgery to remove wrinkles and other signs of aging from your face; an incision is made near the hair line and skin is pulled back and excess tissue is excised; "some actresses have more than one face lift";
the act of giving temporary assistance;
lifting device consisting of a platform or cage that is raised and lowered mechanically in a vertical shaft in order to move people from one floor to another in a building;
one of the layers forming the heel of a shoe or boot;
a device worn in a shoe or boot to make the wearer look taller or to correct a shortened leg;
a powered conveyance that carries skiers up a hill;
a wave that lifts the surface of the water or ground;
the event of something being raised upward; "an elevation of the temperature in the afternoon"; "a raising of the land resulting from volcanic activity";
the component of the aerodynamic forces acting on an airfoil that opposes gravity;
perform cosmetic surgery on someone''s face;
remove from a surface; "the detective carefully lifted some fingerprints from the table";
take off or away by decreasing; "lift the pressure";
remove from a seedbed or from a nursery; "lift the tulip bulbs";
remove (hair) by scalping;
put an end to; "lift a ban"; "raise a siege";
rise upward, as from pressure or moisture; "The floor is lifting slowly";
raise in rank or condition; "The new law lifted many people from poverty";
invigorate or heighten; "lift my spirits"; "lift his ego";
call to stop the hunt or to retire, as of hunting dogs;
annul by recalling or rescinding; "He revoked the ban on smoking"; "lift an embargo"; "vacate a death sentence";
make audible; "He lifted a war whoop";
take (root crops) out of the ground; "lift potatoes";
fly people or goods to or from places not accessible by other means; "Food is airlifted into Bosnia";
raise or haul up with or as if with mechanical help; "hoist the bicycle onto the roof of the car";
take hold of something and move it to a different location; "lift the box onto the table";
move upward; "The fog lifted"; "The smoke arose from the forest fire"; "The mist uprose from the meadows";
move upwards; "lift one''s eyes";
raise from a lower to a higher position; "Raise your hands"; "Lift a load";
make off with belongings of others;
take illegally; "rustle cattle";
take without referencing from someone else''s writing or speech; of intellectual property;
