Thanks for using this online dictionary, we have been helping millions of people improve their use of the english language with its free online services. English definition of lift is as below...

Lifter :: Lifter (n.) A tool for lifting loose sand from the mold; also, a contrivance attached to a cope, to hold the sand together when the cope is lifted..

Lift :: Lift (n.) An exercising machine.

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.) Act of lifting; also, that which is lifted..

Rise :: Rise (v.) To be lifted, or to admit of being lifted, from the imposing stone without dropping any of the type; -- said of a form..

Elevator :: Elevator (n.) One who, or that which, raises or lifts up anything.

Heaving :: Heaving (n.) A lifting or rising; a swell; a panting or deep sighing.

Toss :: Toss (v. t.) To lift or throw up with a sudden or violent motion; as, to toss the head..

Movable :: Movable (a.) Capable of being moved, lifted, carried, drawn, turned, or conveyed, or in any way made to change place or posture; susceptible of motion; not fixed or stationary; as, a movable steam engine..

Fulcrum :: Fulcrum (n.) That by which a lever is sustained, or about which it turns in lifting or moving a body..

Elevate :: Elevate (v. t.) To bring from a lower place to a higher; to lift up; to raise; as, to elevate a weight, a flagstaff, etc..

Lifting :: Lifting (a.) Used in, or for, or by, lifting..

Dipping :: Dipping (n.) The act of lifting or moving a liquid with a dipper, ladle, or the like..

Heaver :: Heaver (n.) One who, or that which, heaves or lifts; a laborer employed on docks in handling freight; as, a coal heaver..

Duty :: Duty (n.) The efficiency of an engine, especially a steam pumping engine, as measured by work done by a certain quantity of fuel; usually, the number of pounds of water lifted one foot by one bushel of coal (94 lbs. old standard), or by 1 cwt. (112 lbs., England, or 100 lbs., United States)..

Assault :: Assault (n.) An apparently violent attempt, or willful offer with force or violence, to do hurt to another; an attempt or offer to beat another, accompanied by a degree of violence, but without touching his person, as by lifting the fist, or a cane, in a threatening manner, or by striking at him, and missing him. If the blow aimed takes effect, it is a battery..

Box :: Box (n.) A chamber or section of tube in which a valve works; the bucket of a lifting pump.

Lifting :: Lifting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Lif.

Porter :: Porter (n.) A bar of iron or steel at the end of which a forging is made; esp., a long, large bar, to the end of which a heavy forging is attached, and by means of which the forging is lifted and handled in hammering and heating; -- called also porter bar..

Helve :: Helve (n.) A forge hammer which is lifted by a cam acting on the helve between the fulcrum and the head.

Random Fonts

Most Popular