Definition of lift

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

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Enhance :: Enhance (v. t.) To raise or lift up; to exalt.
Valve :: Valve (n.) A lid, plug, or cover, applied to an aperture so that by its movement, as by swinging, lifting and falling, sliding, turning, or the like, it will open or close the aperture to permit or prevent passage, as of a fluid..
Lift :: Lift (v. i.) To rise; to become or appear raised or elevated; as, the fog lifts; the land lifts to a ship approaching it..
Lift :: Lift (n.) The space or distance through which anything is lifted; as, a long lift..
Mount :: Mount (n.) To rise on high; to go up; to be upraised or uplifted; to tower aloft; to ascend; -- often with up.
Raising :: Raising (n.) The act of lifting, setting up, elevating, exalting, producing, or restoring to life..
Race :: Race (v. i.) To run too fast at times, as a marine engine or screw, when the screw is lifted out of water by the action of a heavy sea..
Cockhorse :: Cockhorse (a.) Lifted up, as one is on a tall horse..
Elative :: Elative (a.) Raised; lifted up; -- a term applied to what is also called the absolute superlative, denoting a high or intense degree of a quality, but not excluding the idea that an equal degree may exist in other cases..
Weigh :: Weigh (v. t.) To bear up; to raise; to lift into the air; to swing up; as, to weigh anchor..
Lift :: Lift (n.) That portion of the vibration of a balance during which the impulse is given.
Uphand :: Uphand (a.) Lifted by the hand, or by both hands; as, the uphand sledge..
Lift :: Lift (v. t.) To bear; to support.
Lift :: Lift (n.) Act of lifting; also, that which is lifted..
Raised :: Raised (a.) Lifted up; showing above the surroundings; as, raised or embossed metal work..
Walk :: Walk (v. i.) To move along on foot; to advance by steps; to go on at a moderate pace; specifically, of two-legged creatures, to proceed at a slower or faster rate, but without running, or lifting one foot entirely before the other touches the ground..
Cage :: Cage (n.) The box, bucket, or inclosed platform of a lift or elevator; a cagelike structure moving in a shaft..
Helve :: Helve (n.) A forge hammer which is lifted by a cam acting on the helve between the fulcrum and the head.
Lift :: Lift (n.) A rise; a degree of elevation; as, the lift of a lock in canals..
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..
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