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Sounds | lih'ft |
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Rhymes | adrift, airlift, drift, and 15 more rhymes in ihft at the HyperDic website... |
Meaning | The act of giving temporary assistance. |
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Broader | aid, assist, assistance, help |
Meaning | The component of the aerodynamic forces acting on an airfoil that opposes gravity. |
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Synonyms | aerodynamic lift |
Narrower | ground effect |
Broader | aerodynamic force |
Meaning | The event of something being raised upward. |
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Synonyms | elevation, raising |
Broader | rise, rising, ascent, ascension |
Verbs | lift; lift |
Meaning | A wave that lifts the surface of the water or ground. |
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Synonyms | rise |
Broader | wave, moving ridge |
Verbs | lift |
Meaning | A powered conveyance that carries skiers up a hill. |
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Synonyms | ski tow, ski lift |
Narrower | chairlift, chair lift; rope tow; surface lift |
Broader | conveyance, transport |
Verbs | lift; lift |
Meaning | A device worn in a shoe or boot to make the wearer look taller or to correct a shortened leg. |
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Broader | device |
Verbs | lift |
Meaning | One of the layers forming the heel of a shoe or boot. |
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Part of | heel |
Narrower | top lift |
Broader | layer, bed |
Meaning | 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. |
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Synonyms | elevator |
Part of | building, edifice |
Parts | car, elevator car |
Narrower | dumbwaiter, food elevator; freight elevator, service elevator; paternoster |
Broader | lifting device |
Verbs | lift; lift |
Meaning | 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. |
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Examples | "some actresses have more than one face lift" |
Synonyms | face lift, facelift, face lifting, cosmetic surgery, rhytidectomy, rhytidoplasty, nip and tuck |
Narrower | nose job, rhinoplasty |
Broader | plastic surgery, reconstructive surgery, anaplasty |
Meaning | Transportation of people or goods by air (especially when other means of access are unavailable). |
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Synonyms | airlift |
Narrower | Berlin airlift |
Broader | transportation, transfer, transferral, conveyance |
Verbs | lift |
Meaning | A ride in a car. |
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Examples | "he gave me a lift home" |
Broader | drive, ride |
Meaning | The act of raising something. |
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Examples | "he responded with a lift of his eyebrow" |
Synonyms | raise, heave |
Broader | propulsion, actuation |
Verbs | lift; lift; lift |
Meaning | Raise from a lower to a higher position. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody; Something ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody PP; Somebody ----s something PP |
Model | The men lift the chairs |
Examples | "Lift a load" |
Synonyms | raise, elevate, get up, bring up |
Cause to | rise, lift, arise, move up, go up, come up, uprise |
Narrower | get up; jack, jack up; shoulder; kick up; hoist, lift, wind; trice, trice up; hoist, run up; hoist; pump; levitate; underlay; skid; pinnacle; chin, chin up; raise, leaven, prove; heighten; hike, hike up, boost; pick up, lift up, gather up; rear, erect |
Broader | move, displace |
Contrary | lower, take down, let down, get down, bring down |
See also | lift up |
Nouns | lifter; lift; lift; lift; lift; lift; lift; lift |
Meaning | Take hold of something and move it to a different location. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something PP |
Examples | "lift the box onto the table" |
Entailed by | heft |
Narrower | heave, heave up, heft, heft up; pitchfork, fork |
Broader | move, displace |
Meaning | Move upwards. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something |
Examples | "lift one's eyes" |
Synonyms | raise |
Cause to | rise, lift, arise, move up, go up, come up, uprise |
Broader | move, displace |
Nouns | lift |
Meaning | Move upward. |
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Pattern | Something ----s; Somebody ----s |
Examples | "The fog lifted" |
Synonyms | rise, arise, move up, go up, come up, uprise |
Caused by | lift, raise; raise, lift, elevate, get up, bring up |
Entailed by | levitate, hover; peak |
Narrower | scend, surge; climb, climb up, mount, go up; soar, soar up, soar upwards, surge, zoom; go up; rocket, skyrocket; uplift; chandelle; steam; rise, come up, uprise, ascend |
Broader | travel, go, move, locomote |
Contrary | descend, fall, go down, come down |
Nouns | lift |
Meaning | Make audible. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something |
Examples | "He lifted a war whoop" |
Broader | utter, emit, let out, let loose |
Meaning | Annul by recalling or rescinding. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something |
Examples | "lift an embargo" |
Synonyms | revoke, annul, countermand, reverse, repeal, overturn, rescind, vacate |
Narrower | renege, renege on, renegue on, go back on |
Broader | cancel, strike down |
Meaning | Make off with belongings of others. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s something from somebody |
Model | They lift the goods |
Synonyms | pilfer, cabbage, purloin, pinch, abstract, snarf, swipe, hook, sneak, filch, nobble |
Broader | steal |
Nouns | lifter |
Meaning | Raise or haul up with or as if with mechanical help. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody; Something ----s somebody; Something ----s something; Somebody ----s something PP; Somebody ----s PP |
Synonyms | hoist, wind |
Narrower | trice, trice up |
Broader | raise, lift, elevate, get up, bring up |
Nouns | lift; lift; lift |
Meaning | Invigorate or heighten. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something |
Examples | "lift my spirits"; "lift his ego" |
Synonyms | raise |
Broader | better, improve, amend, ameliorate, meliorate |
Meaning | Raise in rank or condition. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody; Something ----s somebody |
Examples | "The new law lifted many people from poverty" |
Synonyms | raise, elevate |
Narrower | dignify; exalt |
Broader | change, alter, modify |
Meaning | Take off or away by decreasing. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something |
Examples | "lift the pressure" |
Broader | remove, take, take away, withdraw |
Meaning | Rise up. |
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Pattern | Something ----s; Something is ----ing PP |
Synonyms | rise, rear |
Narrower | loom, tower, predominate, hulk |
Broader | look, appear, seem |
Meaning | Pay off (a mortgage). |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something |
Broader | liquidate, pay off |
Meaning | Take without referencing from someone else's writing or speech. Of intellectual property. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s; Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s something from somebody |
Synonyms | plagiarize, plagiarise |
Category | crime, law-breaking |
Narrower | crib |
Broader | steal |
Meaning | Take illegally. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something |
Model | They lift the animals |
Synonyms | rustle |
Category | crime, law-breaking |
Broader | steal |
Meaning | Fly people or goods to or from places not accessible by other means. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody |
Examples | "Food is airlifted into Bosnia" |
Synonyms | airlift |
Broader | fly |
Meaning | Take (root crops) out of the ground. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something |
Examples | "lift potatoes" |
Broader | dig, dig out |
Meaning | Call to stop the hunt or to retire, as of hunting dogs. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something |
Broader | call, send for |
Meaning | Rise upward, as from pressure or moisture. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something |
Examples | "The floor is lifting slowly" |
Broader | heave, buckle, warp |
Meaning | Put an end to. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something |
Examples | "lift a ban" |
Synonyms | raise |
Broader | end, terminate |
Meaning | Remove (hair) by scalping. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something |
Broader | scalp |
Meaning | Remove from a seedbed or from a nursery. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something |
Examples | "lift the tulip bulbs" |
Broader | remove, take, take away, withdraw |
Meaning | Remove from a surface. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something |
Examples | "the detective carefully lifted some fingerprints from the table" |
Broader | remove, take, take away, withdraw |
Meaning | Perform cosmetic surgery on someone's face. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something |
Synonyms | face-lift |
Broader | operate on, operate |