lift

IPA: ɫˈɪft

An act of lifting or raising.
The act of transporting someone in a vehicle; a ride; a trip.
(UK, Australia, New Zealand) Mechanical device for vertically transporting goods or people between floors in a building.
An upward force; especially, the force (generated by wings, rotary wings, or airfoils) that keeps aircraft aloft.
(measurement) The difference in elevation between the upper pool and lower pool of a waterway, separated by lock.
(historical slang) A thief.
(dance) The lifting of a dance partner into the air.
Permanent construction with a built-in platform that is lifted vertically.
(figurative) An improvement in mood.
The amount or weight to be lifted.
The space or distance through which anything is lifted.
A rise; a degree of elevation.
A liftgate.
(nautical) A rope leading from the masthead to the extremity of a yard below, and used for raising or supporting the end of the yard.
(engineering) One of the steps of a cone pulley.
(shoemaking) A layer of leather in the heel of a shoe.
(horology) That portion of the vibration of a balance during which the impulse is given.
(category theory) A morphism which some given morphism factors through; i.e. given a pair of morphisms f:X→Y and g:Z→Y, a morphism h such that f=g∘h. (In this case h is said to be a lift of f via Z or via g).
(UK dialectal, chiefly Scotland) Air.
(UK dialectal, chiefly Scotland) The sky; the heavens; firmament; atmosphere.

(transitive, intransitive) To raise or rise.
(transitive, slang) To steal.
(transitive, slang) To source directly without acknowledgement; to plagiarise.
(transitive, slang) To arrest (a person).
(transitive) To remove (a ban, restriction, etc.).
(transitive) To alleviate, to lighten (pressure, tension, stress, etc.)
(transitive) to cause to move upwards.
(informal, intransitive) To lift weights; to weight-lift.
To try to raise something; to exert the strength for raising or bearing.
To elevate or improve in rank, condition, etc.; often with up.
(obsolete) To bear; to support.
To collect, as moneys due; to raise.
(programming) To transform (a function) into a corresponding function in a different context.
(finance) To buy a security or other asset previously offered for sale.
(hunting, transitive) To take (hounds) off the existing scent and move them to another spot.
(category theory, transitive) Given morphisms f and g with the same target: To produce a morphism which the given morphism factors through (i.e. a morphism h such that f=g∘h; c.f. lift n.18)

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