Definition of lift

• n. - The sky; the atmosphere; the firmament.
• 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.
• v. t. - To raise, elevate, exalt, improve, in rank, condition, estimation, character, etc.; -- often with up.
• v. t. - To bear; to support.
• v. t. - To collect, as moneys due; to raise.
• v. t. - To steal; to carry off by theft (esp. cattle); as, to lift a drove of cattle.
• v. i. - To try to raise something; to exert the strength for raising or bearing.
• v. i. - To rise; to become or appear raised or elevated; as, the fog lifts; the land lifts to a ship approaching it.
• v. t. - To live by theft.
• n. - Act of lifting; also, that which is lifted.
• n. - The space or distance through which anything is lifted; as, a long lift.
• n. - Help; assistance, as by lifting; as, to give one a lift in a wagon.
• n. - That by means of which a person or thing lifts or is lifted
• n. - A hoisting machine; an elevator; a dumb waiter.
• n. - A handle.
• n. - An exercising machine.
• n. - A rise; a degree of elevation; as, the lift of a lock in canals.
• n. - A lift gate. See Lift gate, below.
• n. - A rope leading from the masthead to the extremity of a yard below; -- used for raising or supporting the end of the yard.
• n. - One of the steps of a cone pulley.
• n. - A layer of leather in the heel.
• n. - That portion of the vibration of a balance during which the impulse is given.