liftn.1
/lɪft/, U.S. /lɪft/ Obsolete exc. Scottish and poetic.
The sky, upper regions; †in early use also, the air, atmosphere. Also plural, the (seven) heavens.
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the world > the universe > sky, heavens > [noun]
roofeOE
welkinc825
heaveneOE
heightOE
heavenOE
liftOE
loftOE
welkin1122
skies?a1289
firmamentc1290
skewa1300
spherea1300
skewsc1320
hemispherec1374
cope of heavenc1380
clouda1400
skya1425
elementc1485
axle-treea1522
scrowc1540
pole1572
horizona1577
vaulta1586
round?1593
the cope1596
pend1599
floor1600
canopy1604
cope1609
expansion1611
concameration1625
convex1627
concave1635
expansum1635
blue1647
the expanse1667
blue blanket1726
empyrean1727
carry1788
span1803
overhead1865
the world > the universe > celestial sphere > zone of celestial sphere > sphere of ancient astronomy > [noun]
liftOE
heavenOE
wheelc1175
welkina1325
spherec1374
elementc1384
firmamentc1386
roundnessa1398
movablec1400
orbc1449
concavity1483
concameration1625
subcelestial1644
orbit1727
the world > matter > gas > air > [noun] > air above our heads
liftOE
airc1300
weathera1400
OE Beowulf 2832 Nalles æfter lyfte lacende hwearf.
c1000 Sax. Leechd. II. 146 Romane him..worhton eorþ hus for þære lyfte wylme & æternesse.
OE Maxims II 39 Fugel uppe sceal lacan on lyfte.
c1175 Lamb. Hom. 79 Of þe uisces iþe wetere and fuȝeles iþe lufte.
a1225 Leg. Kath. 2124 Ich schal..leoten toluken þi flesch þe fuheles of þe lufte.
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 12769 Com an wunderlic deor. æst in þan leofte [c1300 Otho in þan lufte].
1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (Rolls) 5685 Þo hurde he..angles singe..Vpe in þe luft a murye song.
1340 R. Rolle Pricke of Conscience 1444 Now se we þe lyfte clere and faire.
1390 J. Gower Confessio Amantis I. 276 A vois was herd on hih the lifte Of which al Rome was adrad.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 12871 Als he loked vp til heuen, Open he sagh þe liftes seuen.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 10479 Sco lift hir hend vn-to þe lift And þus to prai sco gaf a scift.
c1480 (a1400) St. Margaret 316 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) II. 56 Crist..þat..with mony sternis sere payntyt þe lyft.
a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 115 Quhill that twa mvnis wer first sene in the lift.
1572 (a1500) Taill of Rauf Coilȝear (1882) 326 The lyft lemit vp beliue, and licht was the day.
a1600 A. Montgomerie Misc. Poems xlviii. 182 The lift begouth for to ouercast with shours.
1759 Rural Love 10 The dearest lass beneath the lift.
1787 R. Burns Poems (new ed.) 199 When Phœbus gies a short-liv'd glow'r, Far south the lift.
1826 J. Wilson Noctes Ambrosianae xxv, in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Apr. 501 The sweet calm moon in the midnight lift.
1862 A. Hislop Prov. Scotl. 107 If the lift fa' the laverocks will be smoored.
1870 W. Morris Earthly Paradise: Pt. IV 40 The moon shines dolorous From out the rainy lift.
Compounds
attributive and in other combinations, as †lift-fowl; lift-like adj. heaven-like.
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a1225 Leg. Kath. 2245 Fode to wilde deor, & to luftfuheles.
1848 P. J. Bailey Festus (ed. 3) 274 Long shroud-like lights Lit up its lift-like dome.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1903; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
liftn.2
/lɪft/, U.S. /lɪft/ I. The action or an act of lifting. (See also dead lift n.)
1.
a. The action or an act of lifting, in various senses of the verb; a raising or rising; the distance through which anything is lifted and moved. †to have the lift: to be hanged. to be on the lift (Southern U.S.): to be on the point of removing; also figurative to be at the point of death ( Cent. Dict.).
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > upward movement > [noun]
upgang971
styingc1200
astyingc1220
upstyinga1300
upcomingc1330
risinga1398
upraisingc1400
mounting1440
toweringc1440
lift1470
ascence1481
ascending1482
mount1486
upwith?1507
surrection1509
upgoing1555
rise1573
arise1590
ascension1598
uprest1602
transcendencea1616
ascent1616
mounture1631
resultancea1634
uprise1690
anabasis1706
upshift1839
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > upward movement > raising > [noun] > taking or lifting up
upbearinga1340
upniming1340
lifting up1362
undertaking1382
uptaking1495
extolling1558
lift1570
catching upa1629
uplifting1650
tollation1688
gathering1691
punt1854
heft1881
bunk-up1919
society > authority > punishment > capital punishment > hanging > be hanged [verb (intransitive)]
rideeOE
hangc1000
anhangc1300
wagc1430
totter?1515
to wave in the windc1515
swing1542
trine1567
to look through ——?1570
to preach at Tyburn cross1576
stretch?1576
to stretch a rope1592
truss1592
to look through a hempen window?a1600
gibbet1600
to have the lift1604
to salute Tyburn1640
to dance the Tyburn jig1664
dangle1678
to cut a caper on nothing1708
string1714
twist1725
to wallop in a tow (also tether)1786
to streek in a halter1796
to straight a ropea1800
strap1815
to dance upon nothing1837
to streek a tow1895
the world > space > distance > [noun] > distance through which anything is moved or lifted
lift1632
1470–85 T. Malory Morte d'Arthur xxi. v. 848 In the lyftyng the kyng sowned and syr Lucan fyl in a sowne wyth the lyfte.
a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) II. f. cli After many showtis & lyftis at the Gatis.
1570 in J. Raine Depositions Courts Durham (1845) 190 He saith that he was comandyd by Brian to gyve a lifft at the aulter ston.
1604 W. Terilo Friar Bacon's Proph. 486 in W. C. Hazlitt Remains Early Pop. Poetry Eng. IV. 285 And thiefes must hang, and knaves must shift, And silly fooles must have the lift.
1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §731 In the Lift of the Feet when a Man Goeth up the Hill, the Weight of the Body beareth most upon the Knees.
1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. i. 29 [It] was transported miraculously..from Nazareth..17. hundred Italian miles, O! a long lift for so scuruie a Cell.
1692 R. L'Estrange Fables (1708) lxxxiii. 99 The Goat..gives the Fox a Lift, and so Out [of the Well] he Springs.
1705 F. Fuller Medicina Gymnastica 143 We must give an equal lift to all the Parts of the Oeconomy.., we must not apply to the Fluids, and neglect the Solids.
1853 E. K. Kane U.S. Grinnell Exped. xliii. 397 We continue perched up, just as we were after our great lift of last December.
1857 C. Gribble in Mercantile Marine Mag. (1858) 5 8 There was so much lift of sea.
1870 J. R. Lowell Among my Bks. (1873) 1st Ser. 132 An almost imperceptible lift of the eyebrow.
1872 R. Browning Fifine lxxxi No lift of ripple to o'erlap Keel, much less, prow.
1878 B. Taylor Prince Deukalion i. v The broader lift of this gray vault o'erhead.
b. A help on the way given to a foot passenger by allowing him to travel some distance in a vehicle. Cf. lift v. 11e.
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society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > [noun] > by passing vehicle
cast1630
lift1712
set-down1727
1712 J. Swift Jrnl. to Stella 17 June (1948) II. 538 I generally get a lift in a Coach to Town.
1825 Sporting Mag. 16 331 Instead of money for frequent ‘lifts,’ the driver receives..presents of game.
1844 C. Dickens Martin Chuzzlewit xxxv. 412 To get a lift when we can. To walk when we can't.
1876 ‘G. Eliot’ Daniel Deronda IV. vii. l. 8 Giving patience a lift over a weary road.
1929 M. de la Roche Whiteoaks v. 70 ‘Don't they ever send a car for you?’ ‘Good Lord, no. Sometimes I get a lift.’
1944 J. S. Huxley On Living in Revol. ix. 106 We found that a bus recorded on the time-table was in reality non-existent; cadged a lift on a road foreman's car to Denness.
1955 Times 26 Aug. 7/4 After giving a ‘lift’ to a hitch-hiker one will have lost only a tablespoonful or two of petrol, perhaps a teaspoonful of oil, and a saltspoonful or two of rubber off the car's tires.
1974 ‘J. le Carré’ Tinker, Tailor xxxiii. 293 Declining a lift, Smiley said the walk would do him good.
c. Scottish and northern dialect. The removal of a corpse from the house for burial; the starting of a funeral procession.
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1887 in Eng. Dial. Dict. s.v.
1897 G. Neasham Joshua Lax 7 The lift was announced to take place at 11 a.m.
2. figurative.† c. A crisis or emergency; = dead lift n. Obsolete.
a. In various immaterial applications, e.g.: A ‘rise’ in station, prosperity, etc.; promotion; a rise in price; an act of helping, or a circumstance that helps, to a higher or more advanced position. to give (†lend) a lift: to ‘give a helping hand’ to. †to give a lift at: to attack. †to have (one) on the lift: ? to have at a disadvantage.
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society > armed hostility > attack > attack [verb (transitive)]
greetc893
overfallOE
riseOE
assail?c1225
to lay on or upon?c1225
onseekc1275
to set on ——c1290
infighta1300
saila1300
to go upon ——c1300
to turn one's handc1325
lashc1330
annoyc1380
impugnc1384
offendc1385
to fall on ——a1387
sault1387
affrayc1390
to set upon ——1390
to fall upon ——a1398
to lay at?a1400
semblea1400
assayc1400
havec1400
aset1413
oppressa1425
attachc1425
to set at ——c1430
fraya1440
fray1465
oppugn?a1475
sayc1475
envaye1477
pursue1488
envahisshe1489
assaulta1500
to lay to, untoa1500
requirea1500
enterprise?1510
invade1513
assemblec1515
expugn1530
to fare on1535
to fall into ——1550
mount1568
attack?1576
affront1579
invest1598
canvass1599
to take arms1604
attempt1605
to make force at, to, upon1607
salute1609
offence1614
strikea1616
to give a lift at1622
to get at ——1650
insult1697
to walk into ——1794
to go in at1812
to go for ——1838
to light on ——1842
strafe1915
the world > action or operation > easiness > aid, help, or assistance > aid, help, or assist [verb (intransitive)]
help?c1225
to shove at the cart1421
supply1446
assist?1518
to lend a hand (or a helping hand)1598
to hold handc1600
to put to one's hand (also hands)1603
seconda1609
subminister1611
to give (lend) a lift1622
to lay (a) hand1634
to give a hand1682
to bear a hand1710
to chip in1872
the world > action or operation > easiness > aid, help, or assistance > promotion or help forward > [noun]
filsteOE
promotion1425
furtherancec1440
further1526
speeding1530
forwardness1591
lift1622
push1655
fartherance1785
leg up1871
the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > hostile action or attack > make an attack upon [verb (transitive)] > take hostile measures against
riseOE
raisec1384
heave at1546
to shove at1577
endeavour?1589
to give a lift at1622
attempt1749
to rise upon1816
society > occupation and work > working > career > [noun] > promotion or upgrading
advancementc1325
promotion?a1425
promoving1496
motion1641
lift1711
upgrading1920
bump1949
the world > action or operation > prosperity > advancement or progress > [noun] > rise in prosperity, power, or rank > occasion or means of
stairs1585
stair1596
setting-forth1602
stepping-stone1653
rise1697
lift1711
leg up1871
a step in the right direction1877
a step up1926
fast track1946
1622 J. Mabbe tr. M. Alemán Rogue ii. 123 I did suffer them now and then to draw my money, but neither much, nor often, lest when they had me on the lift, they might haue left off.
1633 G. Herbert Communion in Temple v Another lift like this will make Them both [body and soul] to be together.
1641 ‘Smectymnuus’ Vindic. Answer Hvmble Remonstr. v. 66 We would intreat him to lend Bellarmine a lift in answering the famous Doctor Whitakers.
1651 N. Bacon Contin. Hist. Disc. Govt. 54 Its no wonder if the King feeling the incumbrance, gives a lift at the Popes power, by stopping the currant of mony from England Rome-wards.
1667 S. Pepys Diary 24 Apr. The only lift to set him upon his legs.
1674 N. Fairfax Treat. Bulk & Selvedge 69 To give the objection all the lifts we can.
1676 T. Otway Don Carlos iv. 39 Thy Foes are tott'ring, and the Day's thy own, Give 'em but one lift now and they go down.
1711 H. Lamp Autobiogr. (1895) iii. 29 I..enter'd my cadet or voluntier in the King's Life Guard of Swissers, in order to get thereby a little lift.
1796 W. Godwin Caleb Williams (ed. 2) III. xii. 220 You have given the finishing lift to the misfortune that was already destroying him.
a1797 E. Burke Speech Shortening Parl. in Wks. (1812) X. 82 A living was to be got for one,.. a lift in the Navy for a third.
1809 B. H. Malkin tr. A. R. Le Sage Adventures Gil Blas I. ii. i. 171 My memory wants a lift.
1832 L. Hunt Sir Ralph Esher I. x. 221 I shall set myself more on a level with these gentry..by a lift in my fortunes.
1885 Manch. Examiner 14 Oct. 5/4 The extension of the franchise..has given an incalculable forward lift to the principles of the Alliance.
1897 Trans. Highld. Agric. Soc. 142 His spirit, action and style gave him a great ‘lift’ in the show-yard.
b. An elevating influence or effect. Also, a cheering or encouraging influence or effect, a sense of elation.
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the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > improvement > [noun] > elevating influence or effect
lift1861
uplift1873
the mind > emotion > pleasure > cheerfulness > [noun] > action of cheering > cheering influence or effect
lift1861
1861 T. Hughes Tom Brown at Oxf. I. xiv. 281 He heard Drysdale's view halloa above all the din; it seemed to give him a lift.
1873 A. G. Murdoch Lilts on Doric Lyre 10 Sae jist to gie their hearts a lift..They cannilie put owre a dram.
1875 J. R. Lowell Spenser in Prose Wks. (1890) IV. 308 The language and verse of Spenser at his best have an ideal lift in them.
1876 J. R. Lowell Among my Bks. 2nd Ser. 3 The traveller feels the ennobling lift of such society.
1887 H. R. Haweis Christ & Christianity I. iii. 83 Its sense of mystery feeble, and consequently its lift and aspirational power almost nil.
1936 J. Dos Passos Big Money 498 Dick put down three bourbons in rapid succession but he wasn't getting any lift from them.
1951 E. Paul Springtime in Paris (U.K. ed.) i. 12 Raoul realized that Katya got an enormous lift from secrecy and mystery, and helped her enjoy it.
1957 Sat. Evening Post 30 Mar. 102/2 The girl had to rush back to the pusher and complain that it didn't give her a lift.
1975 T. Allbeury Palomino Blonde xxiii. 135 Hallet had been demented with worry..and the ‘lift’ that he had got from his talk with Farrow had melted away.
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the world > action or operation > difficulty > [noun] > difficult state of things > sudden, extreme, or emergency
needOE
needinga1400
exigentc1475
plunge1519
opportunity1526
push1563
dead lift1567
heft1587
exigence1588
exigency1601
emergent1620
lift1624
emergencya1631
emergencea1676
emergementa1734
amplush1827
crisis1848
situation1954
1624 R. Montagu Immediate Addresse 6 In Extremitie, when my life is at a lift, or my state set vpon a desperate Cast.
a1652 R. Brome Novella iv. i. sig. L, in Five New Playes (1653) Fear it not, Mistris, she is as sure at such a lift.
3. An act of lifting or stealing; in older use, †a shift, trick. Obsolete exc. dialect.
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the world > action or operation > ability > skill or skilfulness > cunning > [noun] > a wile or cunning device
wrenchc888
craftOE
turnc1225
ginc1275
play?a1300
enginec1300
wrenkc1325
forsetc1330
sleightc1340
knackc1369
cautel138.
subtletya1393
wilea1400
tramc1400
wrinkle1402
artc1405
policy?1406
subtilityc1410
subtiltyc1440
jeopardy1487
jouk1513
pawka1522
frask1524
false point?1528
conveyance1534
compass1540
fineness1546
far-fetch?a1562
stratagem1561
finesse1562
entrapping1564
convoyance1578
lift1592
imagine1594
agitation1600
subtleship1614
artifice1620
navation1628
wimple1638
rig1640
lapwing stratagem1676
feint1679
undercraft1691
fly-flap1726
management1736
fakement1811
old tricka1822
fake1829
trickeration1940
swiftie1945
shrewdie1961
the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > [noun] > an instance or act of
stealth1402
purloinment1621
touch1821
steal1825
lift1852
1592 R. Greene Quip for Vpstart Courtier sig. D Such yoong youths..fall then to priuy lifts & cosenages.
1594 2nd Rep. Dr. Faustus vi. sig. D Such cranks, such lifts, careers and gambalds as he plaid there.
a1637 B. Jonson Masque of Gypsies 56 in tr. Horace Art of Poetry (1640) If for our Linnen we still us'd the lift, And with the hedge..made shift.
1852 ‘N. Buntline’ Myst. & Miseries N.Y. (new ed.) iv. 40 When I hear of the boys making a large lift, I always envy them.
1894 A. Laing Misc. Poems 12 (E.D.D.) For remember a' villains began wi' a lift That by some folk wad scarcely be reckoned a theft.
4. The act or habit of carrying (the head, neck, eyes, etc.) aloft; elevated carriage.
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the world > space > relative position > posture > [noun] > manner of carrying body > elevated
lift1835
1835 N. P. Willis Pencillings I. vii. 47 She is a little above middle height, with a fine lift to her head and neck.
1868 A. C. Swinburne in Fortn. Rev. July 19 The head set firm on it without any droop or lift of the chin.
1869 R. D. Blackmore Lorna Doone I. xix. 219 The proud lift of her neck was gone.
1889 A. Sergeant Esther Denison I. ii. xii. 159 There was a happy expectancy in the lift of her eyes as she walked up the country road.
5. Technical uses.† c. Cards. The action of lifting or ‘cutting’ a pack of cards; also quasi-concrete one of the portions into which the pack is so divided. Obsolete.
a. Engineering. The action of lifting a load through a vertical distance, or one of several successive distances. Hence, in Coal Mining, ‘a series of workings being prosecuted to the rise at one time’ (Gresley Gloss. Coal-mining, p. 201).
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1702 T. Savery Miner's Friend 59 If you have but one Lift one Station or Engine-Room will be sufficient.
1702 T. Savery Miner's Friend 63 A Custom used in very deep Mines..of raising their Water by several Lifts from Cistern to Cistern.
1860 E. Hull Coal-fields Great Brit. Introd. (1861) 5 The ‘Cannel’ seam is reached by means of two ‘lifts’ at a depth of 600 yards.
1867 W. W. Smyth Treat. Coal & Coal-mining 100 The mines are from 300 to 500 feet deep, sunk in lifts of 40 to 50 feet at a time.
b. Horology. The amount of motion of a watch-balance produced by each impulse of vibration.
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1881 F. J. Britten Watch & Clockmakers' Handbk. (ed. 4) 54 If it is found that the lift is unequal from the point of rest the balance spring collet must be shifted in the direction of the least lift till the lift is equal.
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1674 C. Cotton Compl. Gamester xi. 118 When they [fraudulent gamesters] deal..to their Partner they place in the second lift next the top, 1, 2, 3, or four Aces.
1728 E. Young Love of Fame: Universal Passion (ed. 2) vi. 545 When you're enamour'd of a lift or cast, What can the preacher more, to make us chast?
d. The distance or extent to which anything rises, e.g. a safety valve, the pestle of an ore stamp, the water in a canal-lock. Also, elevation, height.
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > upward movement > [noun] > extent of
lift1829
1829 J. Macauley Nat., Statist., & Civil Hist. State N.-Y. I. 170 This..lock has an extent within the gates of one hundred and fourteen feet, with a breadth of thirty—the lift is nine feet.
1837 J. T. Smith tr. L. J. Vicat Pract. & Sci. Treat. Mortars & Cements 306 Length of lift 3·937 inches.
1840 H. S. Tanner Canals & Rail Roads U.S. 252 The difference between the levels is termed the lift of the lock, which ranges from 3 to 30 feet.
1848 Indiana Gen. Assembly Doc. 144 Three lift locks, with an aggregate lift of 17½ feet.
1849 N. P. Willis Rural Lett. iv. 49 The brook at my feet, and, around me, pines of the tallest lift, by thousands!
1851 Official Descriptive & Illustr. Catal. Great Exhib. II. 232 Centrifugal pump for draining marshes..adapted for a large quantity of water, with a low lift.
e.
(a) The upward force acting on an aircraft or other body in the air; spec. that produced by its motion through the air; the force on an aerofoil that acts at right angles to its direction of motion through a fluid.
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society > travel > air or space travel > specific movements or positions of aircraft > aerodynamic forces and concepts > [noun] > lift
sustentation1874
lift1902
the world > matter > physics > mechanics > dynamics > fluid dynamics > [noun] > lift or drag
lift1902
drag1909
1902 Encycl. Brit. XXV. 104/1 The sustaining power, or ‘lift’,..in horizontal flight must be equal to the weight.
1902 Encycl. Brit. XXV. 104/1 The present data indicate that, with concave surfaces, angles of 2° to 5° will produce adequate ‘lift’.
1919 H. Shaw Text-bk. Aeronaut. iii. 43 The upper surface of an aerofoil is considerably more important than the lower surface from the point of view of lift, as the suction over the top surface is numerically much greater than the pressure beneath.
1927 C. L. M. Brown Conquest of Air 45 A speed at which the resistance of the air exerts on the wings an upward force or ‘lift’ greater than the downward pull of gravity.
1937 R. A. Dodge & M. J. Thompson Fluid Mech. vii. 127 Usually the component opposing the motion is referred to as the drag, while the cross-stream component is called the lift, even though it may not always be acting vertically upward.
1948 Sci. News 7 23 In aerodynamics it is customary to resolve the reaction of the air on a surface into two components, namely lift, which is that part of the force acting upwards..and is thus desirable, and drag, which is the component at right angles to the lift and..resists the forward motion of the surface through the air.
1959 Chambers's Encycl. I. 110/2 In straight level flight the lift equals the weight.
1973 Nature 28 Sept. 182/1 Most flying insects depend, for their lift and thrust, on conventional aerofoil action which sets up a bound vortex around the moving wing to create a steady-state flow of air.
1974 Encycl. Brit. Macropædia I. 371/1 An airship derives lift from two sources: (1) by displacement of air as a balloon (static lift) and (2) from the reaction of airflow over its envelope and control surfaces when it is under way (dynamic lift).
(b) The (maximum) weight that an aircraft can raise (including or, more commonly, excluding its own weight).
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society > travel > air or space travel > a means of conveyance through the air > aeroplane > qualities and parameters of aircraft > [noun] > maximum weight an aircraft can lift
lift1910
1910 Blackwood's Mag. July 4/1 The compartments [of the Zeppelin] contained 351,150 cubic feet of hydrogen, giving a lift of eleven tons.
1929 Nature 14 Dec. 916/2 Recourse to the Servo-motor gear was not found necessary (if this holds good at full speed the gear may be removed, and then about ½ ton will be added to the useful ‘lift’).
1971 Daily Tel. 19 Aug. 2/6 It is much lighter and can be lifted by the Puma tactical transport helicopter, which has a total lift of up to 5,500 lb.
f. Prosody. An element of high intensity in an alliterative measure, marked by stress or tone. (German hebung.) Cf. dip n.1 1g.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > versification > rhythm > [noun] > beat > strong stress
lift1894
strong stress1959
1894 H. Sweet Anglo-Saxon Reader (ed. 7) p. lxxxviii Each verse usually consists of four metrical elements, two lifts and two dips—that is, two strong- and two weak-stress elements.
1927 E. V. Gordon Introd. Old Norse 293 The rhythm consists of regular alternation of strong and weak metrical elements, known as lift and sinking respectively.
1953 C. L. Wrenn Beowulf p. xxxvii [Alliteration] is never repeated on the last lift.
1961 Rev. Eng. Stud. 12 346 A metrical interpretation which..sets up metrical units (‘lifts’ and ‘dips’) which are defined in terms of stress relationships.
g. Dance. A movement in which a dancer lifts his partner in the air.
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society > leisure > dancing > ballet > [noun] > movements
entrechat1706
pirouette1706
sissonne1706
batterie1712
cabriole1753
ballonné1760
balancé?1770
brisé1786
ballotté1802
rond de jambe1824
petit battement1828
battement1830
elevation1830
fouetté1830
jeté1830
changement de pied1840
développé1888
temps1890
pas de ciseaux1892
plié1892
changement1905
beat1913
ciseaux1913
glissé1913
ouvert1913
allegro1914
pas de chat1914
pas de cheval1916
soubresaut1916
grand jeté1919
lift1921
toe-dancing1924
pointwork1925
posé1927
jeté en tournant1930
tour1930
extension1934
tour jeté1935
fondu1939
retiré1941
chaîné1946
soutenu1947
passé1948
saut1948
contretemps1952
promenade1953
piqué1954
gargouillade1957
1921 Dancing Times Aug. 867/2 Miss Jules Andre..filled the roll [sic] of ‘boy’ in..many..numbers. Her lifts and adage work were delightful.
1943 K. Ambrose Ballet-lover's Pocket-bk. 40 With the invention of each new ballet, new lifts are devised.
1944 ‘C. Brahms’ & ‘S. J. Simon’ Titania has Mother ii. 11 ‘He's a frightfully bad dancer, mother. His lifts!’ She shuddered.
1950 Ballet Ann. 4 69 She is equally at home in the most intricate acrobatic lifts..as [her body] is swung upwards in the air by her attendant cavaliers.
h. Transport by air (cf. airlift n. 2); also, a number of persons or an amount of supplies so transported. Cf. lift v. 11i.
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society > travel > air or space travel > transport by air > [noun]
air transport1929
lift1942
1942 F. D. Roosevelt in W. S. Churchill Second World War (1951) IV. xxx. 481 The following shipping can be made available by the United States..: Transports, other than combat leaders, with a lift of 52,000 men.
1947 Visct. Montgomery Normandy to Baltic 137 Our resources..made it impossible to fly in the whole of the Airborne Corps in one lift.
1947 M. Newnham Prelude to Glory ixiv. 350 The entire force was carried in one lift.
1949 Flight 15 Dec. 756/1 We eventually had sixteen crews, consisting of three members each, engaged whole~time on the Lift.
i. The establishment by a sheepdog of control over a flock of sheep. Cf. lift v. 11g.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > sheep-farming > [noun] > sheep herding > action of sheep-dog
penning1886
cast1933
fetch1938
outrun1938
lift1942
1942 R. B. Kelley Animal Breeding xi. 115 A little ‘eye’..can be associated meritoriously with a steady ‘lift’ and..restricts the dog from over-running a cast.
1946 F. D. Davison Dusty ix. 117 The [sheepdog] trial had four phases; the cast,..the lift, when the dog, having found them [sc. his sheep], established control over them; the fetch,..and the carry.
1955 Galloway Gaz. 1 Oct. 6 His dog ‘Garry’ won the Rosebowl for the best outrun and lift.
1964 Weekly News (Auckland) 29 Apr. 37/3 Fleet is losing points hand over fist now. He has failed to obtain a good ‘lift’: in other words he hasn't been able to head them unobserved and then start them moving gently and firmly.
1973 Country Life 25 Oct. 1292/1 From its position at 12 o'clock, the dog begins the critical ‘lift’, with a quiet authority that brooks neither refusal nor panic in the sheep.
II. A person who lifts.† 6. slang. One who lifts or takes away and appropriates (something); a thief. (Cf. lift v. 8.)
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the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > thief > [noun]
thief688
bribera1387
stealer1508
taker?a1513
goodfellow1566
snatcher1575
lift1591
liftera1592
larcin1596
Tartar1602
lime-twig1606
outparter1607
Tartarian1608
flick1610
puggard1611
gilt1620
nim1630
highwayman1652
cloyer1659
out-trader1660
Robin Goodfellow1680
birdlime1705
gyp1728
filch1775
kiddy1780
snaveller1781
larcenist1803
pincher1814
geach1821
wharf-rat1823
toucher1837
larcener1839
snammer1839
drummer1856
gun1857
forker1867
gunsmith1869
nabber1880
thiever1899
tea-leaf1903
gun moll1908
nicker1909
knocker-off1926
possum1945
scuffler1961
rip-off1969
1591 R. Greene Second Pt. Conny-catching sig. E2 The Lift, is he that stealeth or prowleth any Plate, Iuells,..or such parcels from any place by a slight conueyance vnder his cloke.
1602 S. Rowlands Greenes Ghost 16 Richard Farrie a notable Lift of sixtie yeares of age.
1606 No-body & Some-body sig. D3v Talke not of the Gayle, tis full of limetwigs, lifts, and pickpockets.
1630 J. Taylor Trav. Twelve-pence in Wks. i. 71/1 Lifts, Foysts, Cheats, Stands, Decoyes.
III. A device or apparatus for lifting.† 9. In a windmill: ? = lift-tenter n. at Compounds 2. Obsolete.
7. Nautical plural. ‘Ropes which reach from each mast-head to their respective yard-arms to steady and suspend the ends’ (Smyth Sailor's Word-bk.).
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1485 in M. Oppenheim Naval Accts. & Inventories Henry VII (1896) 36 Mayne lyftes..ij.
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Balancines, the lifts.
1627 J. Smith Sea Gram. v. 24 The top-sail Lifts doe serue for sheats to the top gallant yards, the haling them is called the Topping the Lifts.
1762 W. Falconer Shipwreck ii. 22 The parrels, lifts, and clue-lines soon are gone.
1860 Mercantile Marine Mag. 7 114 The yard is down on the lifts.
8. † b. Wool-carding (see quot. 1688). Obsolete.
a. Shoemaking. One of the layers of leather used to form a heel.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > footwear > parts of footwear > [noun] > heel > parts of
lift1677
heeltap1688
heel piece1841
top lift1842
heel lift1844
heel brace1859
heel breast1873
riser1928
1677 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Oxford-shire 139 The other [stone] in the shape of the heel of an old shoo, with the Lifts plainly to be distinguish'd.
1735 W. Pardon Dyche's New Gen. Eng. Dict. Lifts,..among the Shoe-makers they are Pieces of Sole Leather put upon the Heels if wooden, or several of 'em one upon another if Leather, in order to make 'em higher or lower.
1880 Times 21 Sept. 4/4 The heels are built architecturally by selecting lifts of diminishing size.
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1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 92/2 The Lifts are the narrow pieces of Leather which are Nailed about to hold the Leaf on the Board.
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1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 340/2 The Parts of a Wind-Mill..the Lift, that which raiseth the Mill-stones higher or lower.
10.
a. An apparatus for raising or lowering persons or things from one floor or level to another; an ascending chamber or compartment; a hoist; = elevator n. 3d. Also, the well or vertical opening in which the apparatus works.
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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > other means of conveyance > [noun] > lift or hoist
steam elevator1801
hoist1835
lift1851
elevator1853
tube-lift1915
stairlift1977
society > occupation and work > equipment > lifting or hoisting equipment > [noun] > elevator > shaft
lift1851
lift-shaft1894
lift-well1897
1851 Official Descriptive & Illustr. Catal. Great Exhib. II. 230 The principle is applicable to dinner-lifts for hotels and mansions.
1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Lift,..an elevator for sending dishes, &c., up or down from a kitchen.
1861 A. Beresford-Hope Eng. Cathedral of 19th Cent. 128 Great central hotels with their machinery of lifts.
1861 Ann. Reg. 168 Throwing a quantity of waste paper, which he had collected on the upper floors, down the ‘lift’.
1878 W. Black Green Pastures xxxii We entered the lift to be conveyed to the floors above.
b. chair-lift n. a device for transporting people up a mountain slope, usually consisting of seats suspended from a continuously moving overhead cable. ski-lift n. a chair-lift, or any of various types of apparatus for hauling skiers uphill. Also absol. lift.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > winter sports > skiing > [noun] > ski-lift
T-bar1889
tow1937
chair-lift1940
ski-lift1940
ski tow1942
skimobile1946
platter pull1949
Poma1954
telecabine1954
gondola lift1957
1940 F. Elkins Compl. Ski Guide ii. 161 New 3500-foot ‘T-bar’ lift to connect with top of chair lift.
1947 Penguin New Writing 30 27 Dory found himself going up on the ski-lift with a Frenchwoman.
1953 C. J. Allen Switzerland's Amazing Railways viii. 93 A simpler application of the téléphérique principle is found in the chair-lift, known in French as a télésiège and in German as a Sesselbahn.
1955 W. Plomer Shot in Park 50 The ski-lift smoothly moves.
1958 Times 18 July 11/7 Skiing is also popular..in the Thredbo Valley, where Australia's first chair lift, a mile long, began to work this winter.
1970 Country Life 17–24 Dec. 1214/3 Recently, Norway has been developing ‘Alpine’ resorts where the ski-lifts, the equipment and the ski-schools closely resemble good centres in the Alps.
1972 ‘M. Yorke’ Silent Witness ii. 12 The lifts, and even the cable-car..had stopped, for the snow..had been falling steadily.
1972 D. Haston In High Places vii. 82 Once above the ski-lift level it was still possible to have the whole of a range to one's self on a certain day.
11. A contrivance on a canal serving as a substitute for a lock. Also = lock n.2 13.
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1825 ‘J. Nicholson’ Operative Mechanic 659 Where locks or lifts occur [on a railway], the stationary steam-engine should drag up the vehicle..not simply from the one level to the other, but to a platform some feet above the higher level.
1875 in E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. II.
12. A set of pumps in a mine; also, the section of a shaft occupied by one set.
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1849 G. C. Greenwell Gloss. Terms Coal Trade Northumberland & Durham 35 Lift,..a column, or parallel columns, of pumps.
1855 J. R. Leifchild Cornwall: Mines & Miners 255 A steam-engine..works nine lifts of pumps, and lifts thirty-six tons six cwt. per stroke.
13. In various applications: see shoe-lift n. (a shoehorn), window-lift.
IV. The thing lifted.
14. The quantity or weight that can be lifted at one time. spec. of paper. Also Scottish a large quantity.
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the world > relative properties > quantity > [noun] > a definite or specified quantity or amount > specific quantities or amounts > quantity scooped, thrown, lifted, etc.
lifta1400
casta1475
draught1740
pouring1768
draw1830
scoop1832
pour1899
the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > [noun] > (a) great quantity or amount
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bushelc1374
sight1390
mickle-whata1393
forcea1400
manynessa1400
multitudea1400
packc1400
a good dealc1430
greata1450
sackful1484
power1489
horseloadc1500
mile1508
lump1523
a deal?1532
peckc1535
heapa1547
mass1566
mass1569
gallon1575
armful1579
cart-load1587
mickle1599
bushelful1600–12
a load1609
wreck1612
parisha1616
herd1618
fair share1650
heapa1661
muchness1674
reams1681
hantle1693
mort1694
doll?1719
lift1755
acre1759
beaucoup1760
ton1770
boxload1795
boatload1807
lot1811
dollop1819
swag1819
faggald1824
screed1826
Niagara1828
wad1828
lashings1829
butt1831
slew1839
ocean1840
any amount (of)1848
rake1851
slather1857
horde1860
torrent1864
sheaf1865
oodlesa1867
dead load1869
scad1869
stack1870
jorum1872
a heap sight1874
firlot1883
oodlings1886
chunka1889
whips1888
God's quantity1895
streetful1901
bag1917
fid1920
fleetful1923
mob1927
bucketload1930
pisspot1944
shitload1954
megaton1957
mob-o-ton1975
gazillion1978
buttload1988
shit ton1991
society > communication > printing > preparatory processes > [noun] > amount of paper able to be lifted at once
lift1808
society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > material for making paper > paper > [noun] > quantity or weight that can be lifted at one time
lift1808
the world > relative properties > measurement > the scientific measurement of volume > measure(s) of capacity > amount defined by capacity > [noun] > amount that fills part of body > hand
handfuleOE
gripc1000
hand-lifting1362
nieveful?a1425
gripe1570
maniple1598
fistful1611
fascicule1699
gripeful1727
palmful1812
lift1871
mittful1918
a1400 Coer de L. 3352 Off gold well twenty mennys lyffte.
1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. Lift, in Scotland, denotes a load or surcharge of any thing.
1786 R. Burns Poems 206 Gie me o' wit an' sense a lift.
1808 C. Stower Printer's Gram. xvi. 405 Having thus doubled the first lift on the peel, he [sc. the warehouseman] raises it, holding it aslant, that the shorter fold of the sheets may open from the peel, in order to convey it over the pole.
1841 W. Savage Dict. Art of Printing 444 In the warehouse, each separate portion of printed paper, whether it consists of five or six sheets or more, that is placed upon the poles to dry, is termed a lift.
1861 A. Trollope Framley Parsonage II. ii. 35 I have used up three lifts of notepaper already in telling people that there is no vacancy for a lobby messenger in the Petty Bag office.
1871 R. Browning Prince Hohenstiel-Schwangau 8 To find..from handlift and from barrow-load, What salts and silts may constitute the earth.
1882 Ogilvie's Imperial Dict. (new ed.) (at cited word) 2 cwt. is a good lift.
1888 C. T. Jacobi Printers' Vocab. 75 Lift, applied to a handful of printed work in the warehouse.
1967 V. Strauss Printing Industry x. 632 (caption) You see the lift of stock to be cut on the bed or table of the cutter. On the left the lift is lined up with one edge, in the rear it is lined up with another edge.
1971 D. Potter Brit. Elizabethan Stamps xv. 175 Batches of 1,000 sheets are broken down into ‘lifts’ of 25.
15. dialect. A gate without hinges, that must be lifted in order to remove or open it.
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1674 J. Ray S. & E. Countrey Words in Coll. Eng. Words 70 A Lift: i.e. a Stile that may be opened like a gate, Norf.
a1825 R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830) Lift, a sort of coarse rough gate..not hung, but [etc.].
1898 H. R. Haggard in Longman's Mag. Nov. 25 The stouter undergrowth is split for hurdles and the rest of less substance twisted into another form of hurdle which is known as a ‘lift’.
16. dialect. A particular joint or cut of meat, usually of beef. (The precise application varies according to locality: see quots.)
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the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > part or joint of animal > [noun]
spauld?a1513
joint1576
lift1688
primal1972
the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > cut or piece of meat > [noun]
cut1591
lift1688
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 87/2 The Lift, or Buttock, is the Fleshy part of the Thigh of a Cow or Ox.
1790 A. Wilson Poems 107 A sirloin huge—a smoking lift, To feed thy keen devouring eye.
1854 A. E. Baker Gloss. Northants. Words I. 395 Lift, 2. The meat taken out of a flitch of bacon, when the ham is left in;..the fleshy part of the leg.
1888 S. O. Addy Gloss. Words Sheffield Lift, the upper part of the thigh of an ox.
1889 E. Peacock Gloss. Words Manley & Corringham, Lincs. (ed. 2) Lift, half a round of beef.
17. A rising ground.
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the world > the earth > land > landscape > high land > rising ground or eminence > [noun]
link931
rise1240
motea1300
bentc1405
mote-hill1475
territory1477
height1487
rising1548
raising1572
linch1591
mount1591
swelling1630
up1637
vertex1641
advance1655
ascendant1655
eminency1662
ascent1663
eminence1670
swell1764
elevation1799
embreastment1799
upwith1819
lift1825
salita1910
turtle-back1913
upwarp1917
upslope1920
whaleback1928
1825 W. Scott Let. 23 Mar. (1935) IX. 42 He started the subject of the intended rail-road... I had at my finger end ever(y) cut every lift—every degree of elevation or depression—every pass in the country.
1874 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People i. §2. 7 A mere lift of higher ground with a few grey cottages dotted over it.
1885 Cent. Mag. Nov. 108 Here and there in the land were sharp lifts where rocks cropped out, making miniature cliffs overhanging some portions of the brook's course.
Compounds
C1. General attributive (several of these combinations should perhaps be referred to the verb stem).
a. (In sense 1.)† lift pole n. Obsolete
lift-capstan n.
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1495 in M. Oppenheim Naval Accts. & Inventories Henry VII (1896) 202 Lyfte Capsteynes.
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1485 in M. Oppenheim Naval Accts. & Inventories Henry VII (1896) 37 Left poles with iiij sheves of brasse..ij, left poles with ij sheves of brasse..ij.
lift-pulley n.
b. (In sense 7.)
lift-block n.
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1883 Man. Seamanship for Boys' Training Ships Royal Navy 28 There are..two lift-plates bolted to the cap, with eyes on each side of lower lift-block to hook to.
lift plate n.
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1883 Man. Seamanship for Boys' Training Ships Royal Navy 28 There are..two lift-plates bolted to the cap, with eyes on each side of lower lift-block to hook to.
lift purchase n.
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1883 Man. Seamanship for Boys' Training Ships Royal Navy 217 Lower lift purchase... Used for squaring or topping lower yards.
c. (In sense 10.)
lift-attendant n.
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society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > workers with specific tools or equipment > [noun] > with lifting equipment
craneman1300
crane-keeper1558
table-loader1875
slinger1881
lift-man1883
hoist-man1892
crane-driver1897
lift-attendant1900
jackman1902
1900 Westm. Gaz. 28 June 6/2 The lift attendant had sustained terrible injuries.
lift-boy n.
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1904 ‘Saki’ Reginald 15 Lift-boys always have aged mothers.
1906 Daily Chron. 20 Sept. 8/1 As I live at the top of a building..I am very dependent on the lift-boy.
1967 L. Meynell Mauve Front Door vi. 82 Chauffeurs, waiters, lift-boys..they are the operators.
lift-button n.
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1955 W. Tucker Wild Talent xiv. 186 The man punched the lift button.
1970 P. Geddes November Wind vi. 64 Havill watched him press the lift button.
lift-cage n.
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1951 R. Senhouse tr. Colette Last of Chéri 213 The lift-cage heavily splashed with as much lacquer and gold as a sedan-chair.
1971 ‘R. Petrie’ Thorne in Flesh xi. 145 A boy lounged on a stool in the silent lift-cage.
lift-man n.
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society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > workers with specific tools or equipment > [noun] > with lifting equipment
craneman1300
crane-keeper1558
table-loader1875
slinger1881
lift-man1883
hoist-man1892
crane-driver1897
lift-attendant1900
jackman1902
1883 Daily Tel. 26 Feb. 7/8 Honest..man wants a situation..as liftman.
lift-railway n.
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1893 Daily News 13 Mar. 3/7 The Clifton Rocks Railway, a lift railway cut in a tunnel from the Gorge of the Avon to the summit of Clifton Rocks.
lift-shaft n.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > lifting or hoisting equipment > [noun] > elevator > shaft
lift1851
lift-shaft1894
lift-well1897
1894 Times 14 Feb. 14/1 The door leading from the liftshaft on to the next floor.
lift-well n.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > lifting or hoisting equipment > [noun] > elevator > shaft
lift1851
lift-shaft1894
lift-well1897
1897 Daily News 3 Dec. 8/3 The deceased was found..at the bottom of the lift-well.
C2.
lift-battery n. a battery in which the guns are lowered for loading and raised for firing.
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1902 Encycl. Brit. XXVIII. 454/2 The first 12-in. guns to be installed were the two in the lift battery, which was finished in 1895.
lift-bridge n. a bridge that may be raised to allow the passage of a boat, e.g. on a canal.
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society > travel > means of travel > route or way > other means of passage or access > [noun] > bridge > lifting-bridge
leaf bridge1838
lift-bridge1850
lifting-bridge1851
hoisting-bridge1860–4
hoist-bridge1875
bascule-bridge1884
rolling lift bridge1894
1850 Proc. Inst. Civil Engineers 9 203 Description of a Vertical Lift Bridge.
1883 G. C. Davies Norfolk Broads (1884) xxv. 190 At Haddiscoe is a lift-bridge, where a road crosses the Cut.
lift coefficient n. Aerodynamics a ratio representing the lift developed by unit area of an aerofoil in relation to the air speed, and defined as the lift divided by the product of the aerofoil area (in plan) and the square of the air speed (and, in modern use, by half the air density also).
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society > travel > air or space travel > specific movements or positions of aircraft > aerodynamic forces and concepts > [noun] > lift > ratio to other factors
lift coefficient1919
1919 H. Shaw Text-bk. Aeronaut. iii. 39 As the angle of incidence increases the lift coefficient also increases rapidly, until an angle of about 13° is reached, beyond which the coefficient increases less rapidly, and reaches its maximum value in the neighbourhood of 15°.
1933 Techn. Rep. U.S. Nat. Advisory Comm. Aeronaut. No. 463. 18 As speeds above half the velocity of sound are exceeded..the flow breaks down as shown by a drop in the lift coefficient.
1966 McGraw-Hill Encycl. Sci. & Technol. (rev. ed.) I. 85/2 The maximum lift coefficient (the stall value) of the wing is 1·1–1·5.
lift-drag adj. Aerodynamics relating to both lift and drag; applied spec. to the ratio of the lift to the drag.
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society > travel > air or space travel > specific movements or positions of aircraft > aerodynamic forces and concepts > [adjective] > lift or drag
lift-drag1919
lifting1919
1919 Parl. Papers X. 49 In a long flight it is most economical to climb an aeroplane in the attitude corresponding to the maximum value of the lift-drag ratio until it approaches its ceiling.
1935 P. W. F. Mills Elem. Pract. Flying i. 6 Variations in incidence..affect lift and drag disproportionately, and thus produce variations in the quantitative relation between lift and drag—that is to say, in what is called the lift-drag ratio.
1960 Times Rev. Industry Oct. 58/3 [The] airstream direction detector system..enables an aircraft to be flown on the best lift-drag curve to maintain economic flight conditions.
lift-drift ratio n. in aerodynamics, the ratio of the lift to the drift or drag of a plane.
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1918 H. Barber Aeroplane Speaks (ed. 6) 8 The Aeroplane must be slow in order to secure the best possible lift-drift ratio.
lift-fan n. a fan in a hovercraft which provides the air-cushion.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > propulsion machinery > [noun] > fan of hovercraft
lift-fan1962
1962 Flight Handbk. (ed. 6) v. 98 The Republic AP-100, in which six J85 engines feed three lift fans.
1967 Jane's Surface Skimmer Syst. 1967–8 49/2 A drive-shaft runs vertically upward to the 12-blade lift-fan.
lift-gate n. (a) = sense 15 (Knight); (b) a gate opening on to a lift (sense 10); (c) U.S. in a motor vehicle, a hinged back panel that opens upwards.
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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > other means of conveyance > [noun] > lift or hoist > parts of
car1847
cab1873
lift-gate1948
society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > powered vehicle > parts and equipment of motor vehicles > [noun] > body or bodywork > rear part > lifting rear panel
lift-gate1948
tailgate1956
hatchback1970
hatch1978
1948 G. V. Galwey Lift & Drop i. 14 The crowd gathered at the lift gates.
1951 ‘J. Wyndham’ Day of Triffids i. 19 I found a large ‘5’ painted on the wall opposite the lift gate.
1961 Webster's 3rd New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. Lift gate, an upper rear panel (as on a station wagon) that opens upward as a tail gate opens downward.
1963 Aerospace-Automotive Drawing Standards (Soc. Automotive Engin.) 1 Liftgate, a hinged backwindow.
1970 Motor Trend World Automotive Yearbk. 1971 Buyer's Guide 112/3 The rear seat for a Gremlin is an optional extra along with the counter~balanced ‘lift-gate’ that comes with it.
1974 ‘E. McGirr’ Murderous Journey 33 The liftman..was fiddling with the lift gate.
lift-hammer n. = tilt-hammer.
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1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Lift-hammer, a large hammer.
1880 Encycl. Brit. XI. 425/2 The lift or helve hammer..thus came into use.
lift-latch n. a latch that does not slide, but rises and falls.
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1875 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Lift-latch lock.
lift-lock n. a canal lock.
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1832 Louisville Directory 111 There is one guard and three lift locks combined, all of which have their foundation on the rock.
1840 H. S. Tanner Canals & Rail Roads U.S. 100 The Wisconisco Canal..has..6 lift locks.
lift-pump n. any pump other than a force-pump.
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1856 Trans. Mich. Agric. Soc. 7 52 Cowing & Co., Seneca Falls, N.Y. [exhibited] 1 lift pump for watering stock.
1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Lift-pump, a pump acting by the pressure of the atmosphere on the external body of water.
lift-slab n. attributive applied to a labour-saving system of building whereby pre-cast components are raised by jacks to the position desired.
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society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > [adjective] > manner of construction
forked1792
Airey1945
lift-slab1951
1951 (title) Youtz-Slick lift-slab building method (Inst. Inventive Res., San Antonio, Texas).
1960 Economist 22 Oct. 378/3 The ‘lift slab’ principle..was developed in America, the columns are first cast and erected, then pre-cast floor slabs are lifted by synchronised hydraulic jacks.
1962 Daily Tel. 30 Nov. 25/4 A 400,000-gallon watertank resting at the base of a tower before being raised 110 ft by the Lift Slab method... The 95 ft-diameter watertank was raised..in about 40 hours.
lift-tenter n. in windmills, a governor for regulating the speed, by adjusting the sails, or for adjusting the action of grinding machinery according to the speed.
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1824 ‘R. Stuart’ Descr. Hist. Steam Engine 133 The attached balls, which were called a lift-tenter, by their centrifugal force either raised or lowered a stage in which the arbour of the spindle revolved, and brought the mill-stones nearer, or removed them farther from each other, as they might be adjusted.
lift truck n. = fork-lift truck n. at fork n. Compounds 2a.
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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > powered vehicle > motor lorry, truck, or van > [noun] > fork-lift truck
fork-lift truck1946
lift truck1963
1963 H. Garner in R. Weaver Canad. Short Stories (1968) 2nd Ser. 56 Even with a lift truck hurrying the parts to the forge we were falling behind.
1971 Engineering Apr. 52 The whole caterpillar-built range including lift trucks, track and wheel loaders, and dozers.
lift valve n. a valve which opens by the valve head moving (vertically) out of its (horizontal) seat.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > parts of machines > control(s) > [noun] > valve > lift
mushroom valve1877
lift valve1887
1887 Encycl. Brit. XXII. 505/1 In many stationary engines lift or disk valves are used, worked by tappets, cams, or eccentrics.
1887 D. A. Low Introd. Machine Drawing (1892) 68 Flap valves, which bend or turn upon a hinge; (2) lift valves, which rise perpendicularly to the seat; (3) sliding valves, which move parallel to the seat.
1898 Engin. Mag. 16 108/1 Compression has been on the increase ever since the adoption of the lift valve.
1971 B. Scharf Engin. & its Lang. xii. 178 Poppet valves. These are spring loaded lift valves which are commonly used, e.g. in internal combustion engines.
lift-wall n. (see quot.).
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1841 S. C. Brees Gloss. Civil Engin. Lift-wall, the cross wall of a lock chamber.
lift-web n. a strip of webbing joining the harness and the rigging lines of a parachute.
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society > travel > air or space travel > a means of conveyance through the air > parachute > [noun] > harness or web
rigging1921
riser1927
shroud line1929
lift-web1942
shroud1942
harness1951
1942 Tee Emm (Air Ministry) 2 134 Pass the left hand in between the left harness lift web and the body and grasp the right harness lift web.
1947 M. Newnham Prelude to Glory viii. 33 To reduce the risk of backward landings men were told..if necessary to turn their bodies by manipulation of the parachute lift-webs.
1958 P. Kemp No Colours or Crest iii. 41 I took a frantic pull on my liftwebs to ease the impact.
lift wire n. Aeronautics a wire on a biplane or light monoplane that extends from the wing to the fuselage and is designed to transmit part of the lift to the latter during flight.
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society > travel > air or space travel > a means of conveyance through the air > aeroplane > parts of aircraft > [noun] > wires for structural support > specific wires
stay-wire1876
stay1894
lift wire1915
incidence wire1916
landing wire1917
1915 W. E. Dommett Aeroplanes & Airships ii. 26 When the machine is in flight, the upward pressure on the wings is taken by ‘lift’ wires or stays passing to a framework under the fuselage.
1942 C. C. Redman in R. A. Beaumont Aeronaut. Engin. xvii. 482/1 Wires running..inwards from the tip portions of the upper surfaces to inboard points of the lower surfaces adjacent to the fuselage—are known as ‘flying’ or ‘lift’ wires.
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a.
Upwardly-moving air which provides sufficient upward force to support a glider, etc., or to carry it higher. Frequently in the phrase in lift.
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society > travel > air or space travel > gliding and hang-gliding > [adverb] > carried higher by upwardly moving air
in lift1938
the world > matter > gas > air > moving air > [noun] > a movement of air > a current of air > upward current > with lifting force
lift1938
1938 N. Heron-Maxwell tr. Hirth Art of Soaring Flight 49 Karl Bauer was towed up in a Grunau Baby, and..found sufficient lift to enable him to make a good soaring flight.
1947 A. C. Douglas Gliding & Advanced Soaring ii. 44 By means of kiting to a height of 1800–2800′, the glider..obtains enough height to circle in lift without risk.
1978 A. Welch Bk. Airsports ii. 27/1 Very slowly the needle moves upwards; it is still showing sink, but not so much. Then, quite suddenly you are in the lift.
1986 Sailplane & Gliding Oct.–Nov. 213/3 Flying in lift I reached the club and checked my watch.
1987 Pilot Apr. 16/1 Other gliders nearby are giving away useful information by..their changes in attitude [sic] as they dive to speed up through sinking air and pull up in any lift.
b. Sport. Any of the set movements by which a weight-lifter lifts a weight or a wrestler lifts an opponent.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > athletics > [noun] > weight-lifting > movement
lift1908
society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting sports > wrestling > [noun] > manoeuvres
swengOE
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neck hold1905
scissors1909
hipe1914
oshi1940
oshi-dashi1940
oshi-taoshi1940
pindown1948
lift1958
whip1958
Boston crab1961
grapevine1968
powerbomb1990
1908 Health & Strength Ann. 93 Continental lifts differ considerably from those in practice in this country.
1928 Health & Strength Ann. 77 Lifters are urged to maintain themselves in a state of readiness on the three Olympic lifts.
1939 R. C. Hoffman Weight Lifting i. 17 Three lifts known as the Olympic lifts had been selected. For a time there were five lifts—the one hand snatch, the one hand jerk, the two hands press, the two hands snatch and the two hands clean and jerk.
1954 J. Murray Weight Lifting iii. 54 Each competitor has three trials in each of the three lifts.
1958 C. P. Keen et al. Championship Wrestling xiv. 170 A, to counter the lift, kicks backward to a prone position, changing the angle of lift. If B persists in attempting the lift, A keeps pushing backward, remaining prone.
1968 B. Douglas Wrestling 153 The wrestler from Arizona State..prepares for a lift and a sweep.
1980 S. Combs Winning Wrestling ii. 25 Practice actual body lifts with a partner, using each other as dead weight.
1992 Olympics 92 (BBC Sports) 138/2 In Seoul Britain's leading heavyweight, Welshman Andrew Davies, failed to record a lift at all.
c. Audio. A relative amplification of signals within a particular part of the audible range, esp. the bass.
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the world > matter > physics > science of sound > vibration > [noun] > amplification
lift1962
1962 A. Nisbett Technique Sound Studio 243 Boomy, subjective description of a sound quality which has resonances in the low frequencies, or a broad band of bass lift.
1970 J. Earl How to choose Tuners & Amplifiers iv. 95 With the two controls set to ‘zero’..there could be a little bass or treble lift or cut.
1975 G. J. King Audio Handbk. iii. 71 Bass lift occurs because C2 in the feedback path reduces the gain at high frequencies.
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An extra layer added to the heel or sole of a shoe or a device worn in a shoe to make the wearer appear taller.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > footwear > parts of footwear > [noun] > protective studs or plates > other
speckc1440
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rand1598
tongue1598
ruffle1600
underlay1612
tap1688
jump1712
bottom1768
boot-garter1824
yarking1825
range1840
counter1841
insole1851
sock1851
galosh1853
heel plate1862
lift1862
foxing1865
spring1885
saddle1930
1862 Internat. Exhib.: Illustr. Catal. Industr. Dept. II. xvii. §3557 A lift for a short leg, and shell for boot: also a boot for a wooden leg.
1964 G. Vidal Julian iv. 46 Like the emperor Augustus, he wore lifts in his sandals to make himself appear tall.
1977 J. D. MacDonald Condominium iii. 27 He was a short plump man in his forty-third year. The lifts in his shoes brought him up to five foot six and a fraction.
1986 Runner Mar. 12/2 If you have a leg shortage and it has not been accommodated with a lift, I suggest that you have someone measure and prescribe one for you.
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U.S. Criminology. A fingerprint, esp. an impression of a fingerprint taken from an object as part of a criminal investigation. See sense Additions of the verb.
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society > communication > indication > marking > a mark > trace or vestige > [noun] > fingerprint
finger marka1661
fingerprint1737
finger impression1856
thumbprint1900
print1914
latent fingerprint1919
lift1951
1951 W. R. Scott Fingerprint Mechanics 182 It sometimes happens that a lift is lost or damaged.
1951 W. R. Scott Fingerprint Mechanics 183 A second lift..reveals better ridge detail.
1957 Sci. of Fingerprints (U.S. Fed. Bureau of Investigation) xii. 176 Lifts, negatives and photographs are readily enclosed with letters.
1977 J. Wambaugh Black Marble (1978) ix. 182 It's very hard to get good lifts unless a surface is hard, smooth and clean.
1992 Police Chief Feb. 33/2 Fingerprint images are taken from a tenprint card or latent lift with a forensic-quality camera.
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lift music n. chiefly British recorded background music played in a lift; (frequently mildly depreciative) music thought to resemble this, esp. in being bland or unobtrusive; = elevator music n. at elevator n. Additions.
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1960 Times 15 Aug. 3/3 The lift music..might be the sort of lift music that Meyerbeer would have written if there had been lifts in the department stores of his day.
1966 Times 21 Dec. 8/7 Taped lift music... The lifts in the high hotel will be playing taped Christmas music.
1986 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 20 Sept. 42/2 His critics snipe that his work resembles lift music or Muzak.
2004 Forestry & Brit. Timber (Nexis) 14 July 41 More inane lift music then after about 10 seconds that ominous continuous tone. I have been cut off.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1903; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
† liftadj.
Obsolete.
= lifted adj. Also with up.
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > upward movement > raising > [adjective] > lifting > lifted
upahevena1225
ylyfta1387
lift1413
lifted1559
heaved1578
uplifted1597
borne?1611
uplifta1822
upheld1870
1413 Pilgr. Sowle (1483) iv. xxxii. 81 Ne neither of them shalle be the lift hand to mayntenaunce of wrong.
1617 A. Newman Pleasures Vision 18 Then seem'd his lookes, and lift-vp hands to say, ‘Take heed by me’.
1679 ‘T. Ticklefoot’ Some Observ. Tryals Wakeman 7 He replyed with lift up hands, God forbid..that [etc.].
1724 M. Davys Reform'd Coquet 163 With lift-up Hands..imploring help.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1903; most recently modified version published online March 2021).
liftv.
/lɪft/, U.S. /lɪft/ 1. † c. To bear, support. Obsolete. rare.
a. transitive. To raise into the air from the ground, or to a higher position; to elevate, heave, hoist. †Also, to erect, rear on high (a building). †to lift (a child) from the font: to stand godfather to. Occasionally, to lower after raising from an elevated position.
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society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > build or construct [verb (transitive)]
timbera900
workOE
betimberOE
craftOE
buildc1275
lifta1300
stagec1330
upraise1338
wright1338
edifya1340
to make outa1382
to make upa1382
biga1400
housea1400
risea1400
telda1400–50
to work upa1450
redress1481
levy1495
upmake1507
upbuild1513
exstruct?c1550
construct1663
to run up1686
practise1739
to lay up1788
elevate1798
to put up1818
to lay down1851
practicate1851
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > upward movement > raising > make to go up or cause to rise [verb (transitive)] > raise
heave971
hevenOE
onheaveOE
rearOE
highOE
arearc1175
to set above (also aloft, high, on high)c1275
upbraidc1275
to set upc1290
lifta1300
upheavea1300
upraisea1300
upreara1300
enhancec1300
araise1303
hance1303
uplifta1340
lift1362
raisec1384
upbear1390
uphancec1390
advancea1393
haut?a1400
to put upa1400
verec1400
hainc1440
inhigh1483
elevate1497
uphigh1513
alifta1522
height1530
heighten1530
exalt1535
extol1549
sublevate1559
rouse?1567
attol1578
elate1578
vaunce1582
dight1590
higher1592
tower1596
to fetch up1612
relevate1620
screwa1625
transcend1635
stilt1649
allevate1696
stiltify1860
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > upward movement > raising > make to go up or cause to rise [verb (transitive)] > hoist
heave971
lifta1300
to set upa1300
lift1362
raisec1384
weigh1421
horsea1500
hawsec1500
heeze1513
hoise1548
hoist1548
wind1577
to work upc1610
hist1707
society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > parent > father > fatherhood > be a father [verb (transitive)] > be godfather to
to lift (a child) from the fonta1300
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > downward motion > causing to come or go down > cause to come or go down [verb (transitive)] > take down > after raising
lift1838
lift1841
a1300 Cursor Mundi 2388 Abram..Bi betel lifted an auter neu.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 8963 Sco lift hir skirt wit-vten scurn, And barfote wode sco þat burn.
c1450 Jacob's Well (1900) 78 In wrastlyng, whan a chaumpyoun may lyften an-oþerys foot, þanne he throwyth hym doun.
a1464 J. Capgrave Abbreuiacion of Cron. (Cambr. Gg.4.12) (1983) 175 A child..whom þe kyng..left fro þe funt.
1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene i. iv. sig. C8v High lifted vp were many loftie towres.
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iv, in tr. Virgil Wks. 137 Arethusa leaping from her Bed, First lifts above the Waves her beauteous Head. View more context for this quotation
1709 R. Steele Tatler No. 58. ⁋2 Lifting his Legs higher than the ordinary Way of Stepping.
1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 433. ¶6 One who could lift Five hundred Weight.
1816 W. Scott Antiquary II. v. 130 He lifted his cane in terrorem.
1841 E. W. Lane tr. Thousand & One Nights I. 91 The Prince..lifted her from his horse.
1847 J. Yeowell Chron. Anc. Brit. Church x. 104 They had no inclination to lift the sword, except against each other.
1851 Official Descriptive & Illustr. Catal. Great Exhib. IV. 1147 A..magnet capable of lifting a weight of 500 pounds.
1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. xx. 137 The clouds were slowly lifted above the tallest peaks.
1873 W. Black Princess of Thule xviii. 288 Lavender made no further sign of surprise..than to lift his eyebrows, and say—‘Indeed!’
1920 E. O'Neill Beyond Horizon ii. i. 73 Lifting Mary to the floor.
b. with up, aloft, away, down, off, out, and adverbial phrases. to lift up: †occasionally to install in a high seat.
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > upward movement > raising > make to go up or cause to rise [verb (transitive)] > raise
heave971
hevenOE
onheaveOE
rearOE
highOE
arearc1175
to set above (also aloft, high, on high)c1275
upbraidc1275
to set upc1290
lifta1300
upheavea1300
upraisea1300
upreara1300
enhancec1300
araise1303
hance1303
uplifta1340
lift1362
raisec1384
upbear1390
uphancec1390
advancea1393
haut?a1400
to put upa1400
verec1400
hainc1440
inhigh1483
elevate1497
uphigh1513
alifta1522
height1530
heighten1530
exalt1535
extol1549
sublevate1559
rouse?1567
attol1578
elate1578
vaunce1582
dight1590
higher1592
tower1596
to fetch up1612
relevate1620
screwa1625
transcend1635
stilt1649
allevate1696
stiltify1860
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > upward movement > raising > make to go up or cause to rise [verb (transitive)] > hoist
heave971
lifta1300
to set upa1300
lift1362
raisec1384
weigh1421
horsea1500
hawsec1500
heeze1513
hoise1548
hoist1548
wind1577
to work upc1610
hist1707
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > downward motion > causing to come or go down > cause to come or go down [verb (transitive)] > take down > after raising
lift1838
lift1841
1362 W. Langland Piers Plowman A. v. 203 For to lyfte hym aloft [he] leide hym on his knees.
1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Rolls) VII. 349 A whirle~wynd..lefte up sixe rafters of þe cherche.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 14332 Þe lid o tumbe awai þai lift.
a1400 Pistill of Susan 229 He lyft [v.r. left] vp þe lach.
1460 Lybeaus Disc. (Kaluza) 2057 Our on schall other lifte þe bedde of be þe chinne.
a1500 (?c1450) Merlin ii. 38 Than yede the peple to oon of the stones, and leften it vp.
1509 S. Hawes Pastime of Pleasure (1845) xxxv. 182 He stretched hym up and lyft his axe a lofte.
c1515 Ld. Berners tr. Bk. Duke Huon of Burdeux (1882–7) lxi. 213 They weyed vp theyr ancres & lyft vp theyr saylles.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Psalms cvii. 25 The stormy wynde aryseth, and lifteth vp the wawes therof.
1567 Compend. Bk. Godly Songs (1897) 44 That Prince on Croce thay lyftit on hicht.
1611 Bible (King James) Gen. xxxvii. 28 They..lift vp Ioseph out of the pit. View more context for this quotation
1640 tr. G. S. du Verdier Love & Armes Greeke Princes iii. xxx. 129 The Knight of the Eagles presently lift up his Bever.
1686 A. Wood Life 29 Dec. Mr John Massy installed in his deane's place..first his patent was read: then his dispensation..and then he was lifted up.
1725 T. Lewis Origines Hebrææ III. 270 When she had lift it [a shoe] up.
1772 C. Hutton Princ. Bridges 99 A large ram of iron..being lift up to the top of them.
1838 C. Dickens Oliver Twist II. xxi. 25 Sikes dismounted..holding Oliver by the hand..and, lifting him down directly, bestowed a furious look upon him.
1853 C. Kingsley Hypatia xiii Lift the old disgraced man down, sir.
1871 R. Ellis tr. Catullus Poems lxi. 121 Lift the torches aloft in air, Boys.
1887 Times (Weekly ed.) 11 Nov. 7/4 The girls sang as if they wanted to lift themselves off the ground.
1890 A. Conan Doyle Sign of Four viii. 138 ‘He acted according to his lights,’ said Holmes, lifting him [sc. a dog] down from the barrel.
1898 G. B. Shaw Candida i. 106 I cant lift a heavy trunk down from the top of a cab.
1920 E. O'Neill Beyond Horizon ii. ii. 95 He lifts her down to the grass.
1940 W. Faulkner Hamlet iii. i. 212 He finds the basket by smell and lifts it down from the limb and sets it before her.
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the world > space > relative position > support > [verb (transitive)]
to bear upeOE
underbearc950
bearOE
holdc1000
weighc1200
to hold up1297
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sustainc1330
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upheave1729
withhold1769
1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene i. xi. sig. L6v Th'earth him vnderneath Did grone, as feeble so great load to lift.
d. Scottish. To take up, pick up. Hence in Golf: To take up the ball.
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > upward movement > raising > make to go up or cause to rise [verb (transitive)] > lift or take up
aheaveeOE
to reach upOE
to draw upOE
bearc1225
upnimc1290
to take upc1330
upholda1400
lutchc1400
hovec1480
upweigha1593
lift1596
poise1689
to up with1825
1596 J. Dalrymple tr. J. Leslie Hist. Scotl. (1888) I. 206 Dionethie haueng receiued a gret..wound, he is lyfted be his awne.
1830 J. Galt Lawrie Todd III. vii. ii. 22 I happened..to lift a newspaper.
1840 D. P. Blaine Encycl. Rural Sports 117 The ball nearest the hole must be lifted till the other is played.
1842 G. F. Carnegie Golfiana in Golfiana Misc. (1887) 81 Now, lift the stones, but do not touch the ball.
1890 Gloss. in H. G. Hutchinson et al. Golf (Badminton Libr. of Sports & Pastimes) 447 To lift a ball is to take it out of a hazard and drop or tee it behind.
e. In occasional uses, = raise v.1: †(a) in passive, to rise (obsolete); (b) colloquial to bring (a constellation) above the horizon in sailing, etc.
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c1420 Pallad. on Husb. iv. 813 Ybrestid brode, and al the body lift In brawnys grete.
1477 W. Caxton tr. R. Le Fèvre Hist. Jason (1913) 92 Thenne sodainly rose & was lift a tempeste.
1891 R. Kipling Light that Failed vii. 124 She'll [sc. the steamer on her way to Australia] lift the Southern Cross in a week.
f. To help (sick or weak cattle) to stand up. Cf. lifting n. b.
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the world > health and disease > healing > veterinary medicine and surgery > practise veterinary medicine and surgery [verb (transitive)] > give specific treatment > to cattle
lift1899
1899 H. G. Graham Social Life Scotl. 18th Cent. I. 155 Cattle..after the long confinement and starving of winter, were mere skeletons, and required to be lifted on their legs when put into the grass.
g. = face-lift v. Also transferred.
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the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > surgery > operations on specific parts or conditions > perform operation on specific part or condition [verb (transitive)]
lift1922
1922 Ladies' Home Jrnl. Sept. 28/2 For a skillful surgeon to ‘lift’ a woman's face—that is, to remove crescent-shaped pieces of skin, near the ears, and at the hair line, thus lifting the cheeks that have begun to sag and so removing the lines of age about the mouth—is actually a simple operation and practically without danger.
1931 Daily Express 2 Sept. 3/5 A woman can now have her face lifted one day and appear among her friends the next.
1934 R. Macaulay Going Abroad i. 12 Mrs. Aubrey, bored, felt that they wanted her to have her face lifted, de-wrinkled..and given a lick of paint.
1951 G. Mikes Down with Everybody 71 Modern nationalism is an attempt to see ourselves without the warts; and many historians, writers and poets are the masseurs and cosmeticians of the national beauty parlours, trying to dye our greying hair golden-blonde and trying to lift our faces.
1959 Cambr. Rev. 30 May 549/2 Whole courts have had their faces lifted, with stonework freshly dressed or replaced, stucco renewed.
1974 M. Cecil Heroines in Love vi. 149 She..could cling on to her youth..by having her face lifted.
h. (not) to lift a finger: see to lift a finger at finger n. Phrases 4a.
2. absolute.1611 Bible (King James) 1 Sam. ii. 7 The Lord..bringeth low, and lifteth vp. View more context for this quotation
a. In immaterial sense and figurative: To elevate, raise. Also with out, up, and adverbial phrases. †to lift (a person) out: to get (him) displaced. †Also (? nonce-use), to raise, excite (wonder).
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > upward movement > raising > make to go up or cause to rise [verb (transitive)] > raise > specific immaterial things
lifta1300
society > authority > office > removal from office or authority > remove from office or authority [verb (transitive)]
outOE
deposec1300
remuec1325
to put out1344
to set downc1369
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outputa1382
removea1382
to throw outa1382
to put downc1384
privea1387
to set adowna1387
to put out of ——?a1400
amovec1425
disappoint1434
unmakec1475
dismiss1477
dispoint1483
voidc1503
to set or put beside (or besides) the cushion1546
relieve1549
cass1550
displace1553
unauthorize1554
to wring out1560
seclude1572
eject1576
dispost1577
decass1579
overboard1585
cast1587
sequester1587
to put to grass1589
cashier1592
discompose1599
abdicate1610
unseat1611
dismount1612
disoffice1627
to take off1642
unchair1645
destitute1653
lift1659
resign1674
quietus1688
superannuate1692
derange1796
shelve1812
shelf1819
Stellenbosch1900
defenestrate1917
axe1922
retire1961
a1300 Cursor Mundi 25743 Penance sothfast and schrifte..quen we fall vp mai vs lifte.
a1340 R. Rolle Psalter xxii. 6 Þou has purged my hert, and liftid vp to haf þe ioy of contemplacioun.
c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness (1920) l. 586 If he has losed þe lysten hit lyftez meruayle.
1497 J. Alcock Mons Perfeccionis (de Worde) C ij Lyfte fro the erth, refresshed wt ghostly contemplacion.
a1533 Ld. Berners tr. A. de Guevara Golden Bk. M. Aurelius (1546) sig. Bb Philosophers..who fyrste lyfted theim selues to regarde the sterres of the heuen.
1583 A. Nowell et al. True Rep. Disput. E. Campion sig. Q3v It is our affection..that must be lift vp.
1659 A. Wood Life & Times (1891) I. 299 Carrying tales to the great persons and endeavouring to lift one another out.
1711 R. Steele Spectator No. 51. ⁋4 It lifts an heavy empty Sentence, when there is added to it a lascivious Gesture of Body.
1817 T. Chalmers Series Disc. Christian Revelation i. 19 There is much in the scenery of a nocturnal sky to lift the soul to pious contemplation.
1864 J. W. Carlyle Lett. III. 224 With so rich a husband she would be able to lift them out of all their difficulties.
1893 H. P. Liddon et al. Life E. B. Pusey I. iv. 327 Pusey's paper..lifted it [the subject] at once into the region of principle.
b. To raise in dignity, rank, or estimation; to elevate, exalt. Also with up and adverbial phrases. Now rare.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > importance > [verb (transitive)] > attach importance to > make more important
arearc885
upheavea1300
upraisea1300
uphigh13..
enhancec1325
liftc1330
uplift1338
uphebbe1340
uptakec1340
magnifya1382
upreara1382
uphancec1390
preponder?1504
upbring1513
exaggerate1564
greaten1589
weighc1595
to make much matter ofa1649
aggravate1698
aggrandize1709
beef1941
c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. (1810) 10 Whan þe kyng Kynwolf had don his endyng, Brittrik his kosyn þei lift him to kyng.
a1340 R. Rolle Psalter viii. 2 For liftid is þi worship abouen heuens.
c1440 Gesta Romanorum (Add. MS.) lxv. 280 Whan he was thus I-lifte up, his herte was enhaunsed in pride.
c1450 tr. Thomas à Kempis De Imitatione Christi iii. lxiii. 145 Sonne, be war þat þou dispute not..why þis is so gretly peyned, & he is so excellently lifte up.
1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection i. sig. Bviiv Whome they most extolle and lefte vp moste hye, they forsake sonnest.
1597 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie v. xx. 37 Neither can it be reasonablie thought..that we thereby do offer disgrace to the word of God, or lift vp the writings of men aboue it.
1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. i. vii. 239 His enuious brethrens treacherous drift, Him [sc. Joseph] to the sterne of Memphian State had lift.
1639 T. Fuller Hist. Holy Warre ii. ii. 45 Arnulphus..was by popular faction lifted up into the Patriarchs chair.
1883 R. W. Dixon Mano i. xv. 48 Then was he lifted to his former style, Archbishop of Ravenna he became.
c. Chiefly with up: To cheer, encourage. Also, To elate, puff up (with pride). †to lift up oneself of (something): to pride oneself upon. Now dialect and archaic.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > pride > take pride in [verb (transitive)]
to lift up oneself ofc1450
to take (a) pride in1582
bridle1747
pride1975
the mind > emotion > pride > take pride in [verb (transitive)] > make proud or fill with pride > elate with pride
liftc1450
to set upa1529
elatea1631
erect1631
the mind > emotion > pleasure > cheerfulness > make cheerful [verb (transitive)]
to mend a person's cheera1325
raisec1384
cherishc1400
rehetec1400
blithec1440
cheer1440
lightena1450
light?1473
embellish1481
hearten1524
exhilarate1540
laetificate1547
to cheer up1550
lift1572
to do a person's heart good1575
acheera1592
upcheerc1595
cherry1596
relevate1598
encheer1605
brighten1607
buoy1652
undumpisha1661
to lift (up) a person's spirits1711
cheerfulize1781
blithen1824
pearten1827
chirk1843
to chipper up1873
to chirp up188.
to buck up1909
c1450 tr. Thomas à Kempis De Imitatione Christi i. ii. 3 Be not lifte up þerfore for eny crafte or eny kunnyng.
c1450 tr. Thomas à Kempis De Imitatione Christi i. vii. 8 Lifte not up þiself of gretnes.
1572 R. Harrison tr. L. Lavater Of Ghostes ii. ii. 108 Gabriel with comfortable words did lift up the blessed virgin which before was sore troubled by this salutation.
1586 T. Bowes tr. P. de la Primaudaye French Acad. I. 53 He should not be cast downe too much in aduersitie, nor lift vp beyond measure in prosperitie.
1611 Bible (King James) 2 Chron. xxvi. 16 But when he was strong, his heart was lifted vp to his destruction. View more context for this quotation
1875 B. Jowett in tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) V. 62 He who is lifted up with pride,..is soon deserted by God.
1890 H. Caine Bondman ii. ii It had lifted up his heart that Greeta had chosen poverty..before plenty.
1896 ‘I. Maclaren’ Kate Carnegie 207 Gin ye juist jined the fouk..the auctioneer would be lifted.
d. To raise in price, value, or amount. Also elliptical.
ΘΚΠ
society > trade and finance > monetary value > price > fluctuation in price > [verb (transitive)] > increase (prices) > raise the price of
advance?a1400
dearthc1440
to set up?1529
mount1532
price1533
hoise1581
endear1603
raisea1626
to mark up1868
to price up1904
lift1907
1907 Daily Chron. 7 Nov. 1/7 Home Rails were lifted all round..several rises being substantial.
1928 Chambers's Jrnl. Feb. 99/2 He kept on lifting the betting, merely to increase his plunder.
1928 Chambers's Jrnl. Feb. 115/2 Jackson..opened the pot for a pound. The American..raised it five, and Captain Reginald lifted another five.
1962 A. Nisbett Technique Sound Studio 272 To lift programme level ‘a stop’ is to increase it by turning the fader (potentiometer) from one stud to the next.
3. intransitive for reflexive (also with up).figurative.1897 M. Kingsley Trav. W. Afr. 232 My..head-ache..soon lifted.† e. Of a horse: To rear, to raise the feet (high).
a.
(a) To rise. Said esp. of a vessel riding on the waves, occasionally of the waves themselves. Also in quasi-passive sense (e.g. of a window): To admit of being raised.
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > upward movement > rise or go up [verb (intransitive)]
styc825
astyc950
ariseOE
upstyOE
to step upOE
upcomec1000
to come upOE
to go upOE
upwendc1200
runge?c1225
amountc1275
upgoa1325
heavec1325
uparise1340
ascend1382
higha1393
lifta1400
risea1400
skilla1400
uprisea1400
raisec1400
rearc1400
surmount1430
to get upc1450
transcenda1513
springa1525
upmounta1560
assurge?1567
hove1590
surgea1591
tower1618
hoist1647
upheave1649
to draw up1672
spire1680
insurrect1694
soar1697
upsoar1726
uprear1828
higher1889
society > travel > travel by water > action or motion of vessel > [verb (intransitive)] > rise and fall
lifta1400
heave and set1509
surge1511
loom1605
senda1625
pitcha1687
tittup1881
the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > wave > movement of waves > move restlessly about [verb (intransitive)] > run high, surge, or heave
flash1387
lifta1400
walterc1400
waverc1425
welter1489
jaw1513
roll?1532
surge1566
billow1596
to run high1598
estuate1658
to run steep1894
roil1913
a1400–50 Alexander 1942 We þan lift vp a lite & lent him a-gayne.
1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection i. sig. Fvi So that his body lyfted aboue his bedde .iiii. fote or more.
1757 Capt. Randall Jrnl. in Naval Chron. (1805) 14 95 Although there was a great Sea running, she did not lift.
1807 S. T. Coleridge Lett. (1895) 515 This most morbid and oppressive weight is gradually lifting up.
1844 W. H. Maxwell Wanderings in Highlands & Islands II. xvi. 215 The windows would not lift.
1861 G. W. Thornbury Life J. M. W. Turner II. 319 Rough days, when..he sat..in boats lifting over enormous waves.
1876 R. D. Blackmore Cripps I. ii. 19 The water..instead of ruffling lifted.
1887 C. Bowen tr. Virgil Æneid iii, in tr. Virgil in Eng. Verse 158 Not till the fourth day broke was the land seen lifting afar.
1892 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 151 78/2 Fowl lift only a few inches from the water.
1897 R. Kipling Captains Courageous i The big liner rolled and lifted.
(b) Of an aircraft: to rise off the ground.
ΘΚΠ
society > travel > air or space travel > action of flying (in) aircraft > specific flying operations or procedures > [verb (intransitive)] > take off
to take off?1849
lift1879
unstick1912
to get unstuck1913
1879 English Mechanic 4 July 410/3 The small flying model..only just lifted off the pavement.
1899 H. G. Wells When Sleeper Wakes xxiv. 327 The aëropile..was running down its guides to launch. It lifted clean and rose.
1907 Daily Chron. 9 Oct. 4/5 She will have to get rid of at least 250 lb. of ballast before she will lift.
1973 J. Drummond Bang! Bang! You're Dead! xliv. 151 By the time Sorensen and Pittaway were lifting off the Wapping tarmac, certain constables..were already deploying... They saw the helicopter about the same time as Mariner did.
(c) In Astronautical contexts off has changed from being a preposition to being an adverb.
ΚΠ
1959 W. A. Heflin Aerospace Gloss. 57/2 To lift off, to take off in a vertical ascent.
1961 W. G. Burchett & A. C. Purdy Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin ii. 27 The giant ship lifts off..in a hurricane of white-hot flames.
1971 Sci. Amer. Oct. 49/2 On July 21, 1969, Eagle lifted off from the moon with its 22-kilogram cargo of lunar rocks and soil.
b. Of a sail (see quot. 1867).
ΚΠ
1810 Capt. Tucker in Naval Chron. 24 337 By keeping the sails lifting,..we contrived to drift in.
1860 Mercantile Marine Mag. 7 114 This must not be hauled too taut so as to hinder the sail from lifting.
1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Lift, a term applied to the sails when the wind catches them on the leeches and causes them to ruffle slightly.
c. Of clouds, fog, etc.: To rise and disperse. Also (U.S.) of rain: To cease temporarily.
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > go away [verb (intransitive)] > go or move away specifically of things > of unpleasant things
lift1834
1834 M. Scott Cruise of Midge iii, in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. May 602/2 The canopy of clouds..lifted from the eastern horizon majestically slow.
1858 J. A. Froude Hist. Eng. (ed. 2) III. 349 One morning when the darkness lifted, sixty strange sail were found at anchor in the Downs.
1870 E. Peacock Ralf Skirlaugh II. 178 The thick fog had lifted.
1901 W. D. Howells Lit. Friends ii. vi. 89 In a lifting of the rain he walked with me down to the village.
d. Of a floor, etc.: To swell or warp and rise.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > extension in space > expansion or enlargement > expand or enlarge [verb (intransitive)] > distend > swell > swell up
rise1372
upswellc1386
lift1793
swell1837
1793 J. Smeaton Narr. Edystone Lighthouse (ed. 2) §268 Those four stones..should be provided..with trenails to hinder them from lifting.
1840 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 1 iii. 272 A limestone road..lifts more in frost than a gravel one.
1874 S. J. P. Thearle Naval Archit. (new ed.) I. 116 The great tendency of the deck to lift..when these heavy guns are fired over it.
1899 Daily News 13 Nov. 7/5 The concrete platforms..lifted when test guns were fired.
ΚΠ
1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 414 Surbating..commeth..sometime by the hardnesse of the grounde, and high lifting of the Horse.
f. To rise in the air.
ΚΠ
1878 B. F. Taylor Between Gates 65 The blue dome of Mount Diablo lifts in the far horizon.
1878 B. F. Taylor Between Gates 142 Around you the mountains lift three and four thousand feet above the sea.
g. To rise in tone or volume of sound.
ΘΚΠ
the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > loudness > make a loud sound or noise [verb (intransitive)] > increase loudness
risea1450
swell1749
loudena1848
crescendo1900
lift1912
1912 J. Galsworthy Inn of Tranquility 157 He seemed to enjoy the sounds of conversation lifting round him.
1918 J. Galsworthy Five Tales 340 The wayward music lifted up again.
h. To come into being; to originate.
ΚΠ
1928 Chambers's Jrnl. Jan. 3/2 Whatever quarrel—sudden it must have been—had lifted between them came to its crisis.
i. Printing. intransitive. Of a forme of type, to stay in one piece when raised from the surface on which it has been assembled; = rise v. 17d. Also transitive, to raise (lines of type), esp. in moving them from a composing stick to a galley, or in preparation for the distribution of used type.
ΘΚΠ
society > communication > printing > preparatory processes > composing > compose [verb (intransitive)] > lift (of forme)
lift1854
society > communication > printing > preparatory processes > composing > compose [verb (transitive)] > lift lines of type
lift1854
1854 T. Ford Compositor's Handbk. 247 Lift, this term applies to the raising of a form from the stone. It is said to Lift when no letters drop out. The same term is applied at press when the pressmen are required to Lift a form before it is worked off.
1884 J. Gould Letter-press Printer (ed. 3) 34 Before lifting the forme off the stone, raise it a little and observe carefully if any letters, &c., are loose and likely to fall out. If the forme ‘lifts’, take it from the imposing-stone to the proof-press.
1892 A. Powell Southward's Pract. Printing (ed. 4) xxi. 184 Lock up finally, so that the forme will lift.
1892 A. Powell Southward's Pract. Printing (ed. 4) xxi. 185 The next thing to be done is to ‘see if it [sc. the forme] will lift’; that is, if it can be raised up from the imposing surface without any letters falling out.
1932 Sayers & Smart in W. Atkins Art & Pract. Printing I. iv. 48 If the job contains lines interspersed of the same size and fount (as in display) ‘lift’ these and place together.
1961 H. W. Larken Compositor's Work in Printing viii. 95 When type matter is being lifted, it should be handled firmly.
1961 H. W. Larken Compositor's Work in Printing viii. 96 When lifting single lines from a galley or forme, use the side of the galley or the furniture.
1961 H. W. Larken Compositor's Work in Printing viii. 97 Type that is to be distributed should..be lifted in the same manner as that employed for removing it from the stick... The lifted type is allowed to rest on the third finger of the left hand.
1967 R. R. Karch & E. J. Buber Graphic Arts Procedures: Offset Processes 544 When each piece of type in a form stays in place after being locked in a chase, it is said to ‘lift’.
a. To pull at (something) in the attempt to raise it. literal and figurative. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > upward movement > raising > make to go up or cause to rise [verb (transitive)] > draw or pull up > pull at in attempt to raise
to lift at1530
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 611/1 I have lyfted at this same this halfe hour: jay hallé a cecy ceste demye heure.
1573 T. Tusser Fiue Hundreth Points Good Husbandry (new ed.) f. 49 Lifte at their [sc. cattle's] tailes, er an winter be past.
1607 M. Drayton Legend Cromwel 37 Secret foes..lifted at my state.
1658 W. Gurnall Christian in Armour: 2nd Pt. 208 That principle of holiness..makes him lift at that duty which he can little more then stir.
a1704 J. Locke Thoughts on Conduct of Understanding (1754) §27 Like the Body strain'd by lifting at a Weight too heavy.
b. To rise in opposition to. Also in indirect passive. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
society > authority > lack of subjection > rebelliousness > insurrection > rise against [verb (transitive)]
revolt1548
to make head against1562
to lift at1647
1647 T. May Hist. Parl. i. ix. 113 Bishops had been much lifted at, though not yet taken away.
?1690 Vindic. New Eng. in Andros Tracts (1869) II. 39 Some others..have lifted at the Fourth [commandment].
5. transitive. In various phrases chiefly Hebraisms, or in the Hebrew manner.
a. to lift (up) one's eyes, brow, face, visage: to give an upward direction to the eyes, etc.; to look up. literal and figurative †Hence to lift up one's ears: to listen attentively.
ΘΚΠ
the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > seeing or looking > see [verb (intransitive)] > look upwards
to look upeOE
uplooka1300
to lift (up) one's eyes, brow, face, visagea1400
upgaze1855
periscope1933
the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > hear [verb (intransitive)] > listen > listen attentively
to lift up one's ears1548
to prick up one's ears1682
to cock one's ears1700
to listen up1933
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 17837 Til heuen þai lifted þair eien brade.
c1420 Anturs of Arth. 408 He lyfte vpe his vesage fro þe ventalle.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Psalms cxxi. 1 I lift vp myne eyes vnto the hilles.
1548 R. Crowley Informacion & Peticion sig. Avi Herken you possessioners, and you rich men lyfte vp your ears.
1611 Bible (King James) Job xxii. 26 For then shalt thou haue thy delight in the Almightie, and shalt lift vp thy face vnto God. View more context for this quotation
1854 S. T. Dobell Balder xxv. 176 With brow Lift to the glowing sun.
1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. III. xii. 151 It was whispered that he had dared to lift his eyes to an exalted lady.
b. to lift (up) the hand(s, (occasionally one's arm): (a) gen.; (b) in prayer, thanksgiving, etc.; (c) in taking an oath; (d) in hostility against (a person); (e) to do a stroke of work (modern slang).
ΘΚΠ
society > faith > worship > prayer > pray [verb (intransitive)] > raise hands in prayer
to lift (up) the hand(s, (occasionally one's arm)1340
the mind > language > statement > assertion or affirmation > [verb (intransitive)] > swear or take an oath > solemnize an oath
to lift (up) the hand(s, (occasionally one's arm)1340
the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > hostile action or attack > make attack [verb (intransitive)]
onreseeOE
onslayc1275
entera1425
to be upon (also on) a person's jack1588
endeavour?1589
to fall aboard1591
to let fly1611
strikea1616
to lift (up) the hand(s, (occasionally one's arm)1655
to fall on board (of)1658
tilt1708
to walk into ——1794
to run in1815
to peg it1834
to sail in1856
to wade in1863
to light in1868
to roll into ——1888
to make for ——1893
(a)
(b)c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) 1 Tim. ii. 8 I wole, men for [printed menf or] to preie in al place, liftynge vp clene hondis with oute wraththe.a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 4767 Oft he liftud vp his hend To godd, þat he helpe þam wald send.a1500 (?a1400) Sir Torrent of Portyngale (1887) l. 1273 To god he did his hondys lifte, And thankid hym of his sond.1634 T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile 24 A Negroe..lift vp his hands, inuocating Mahomet or the Deuil.1807 J. Robinson Archæol. Græca iii. v. 222 In praying it was likewise customary to lift up the hands towards heaven.(c)1535 Bible (Coverdale) Gen. xiv. D I lift vp my honde vnto the Lorde the most hye God.1626 F. Bacon New Atlantis 4 in Sylua Syluarum At which Answear the said Person lift vp his Right Hand towards Heauen.1845 M. Pattison in Christian Remembrancer Jan. 81 Chilperic lifted his hands, and calling the Almighty to witness, swore that, etc.1897 R. Kipling Captains Courageous 52 Seventeen brass-bound officers, all gen'elmen, lift their hand to it that [etc.].(d)1535 Bible (Coverdale) Psalms cv[i]. 26 Then lift he vp his honde agaynst them, to ouerthrowe them in the wildernes.1655 Ld. Orrery Parthenissa II. i. vi. 167 He has lift up his prophane Arme against his generous Deliverer.1804 J. Grahame Sabbath 340 The murderer—let him die, And him who lifts his arm against his parent.(e)1889 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Robbery under Arms xlviii He would not lift his hand for any one that day.1340 R. Rolle Pricke of Conscience 7976 Ne myght have anes to lyft þair hand To wype þe teres fra þair eghen oway.
1759 S. Johnson Idler 19 May 153 He lifts up his hands with astonishment.
c. to lift up one's head: (a) literally; (b) figurative to regain courage or energy; to renew one's efforts, to rally. †to lift up the head of (a person); used in the Bible for: to bring out from prison; restore to liberty or position of dignity.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > amending > restoration > restoration of a person > [verb (transitive)] > to liberty or dignity
to lift up the head of1535
the world > action or operation > amending > restoration > be or become restored [verb (intransitive)]
recruit1646
retrieve1759
redintegrate1788
to lift up one's head1838
recoup1896
regroup1968
a1300 Cursor Mundi 22522 All bestes..Vp þan sal þair hefds lift Apon vr lauerd for to cri.
c1385 G. Chaucer Legend Good Women Thisbe. 882 And therwithal he leftyth vp his hed.
c1400 Mandeville's Trav. (1839) iv. 24 The Dragoun lifte up hire Hed aȝenst him.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) 2 Kings xxv. 27 The kynge of Babilon..lifte vp the heade of Ioachim ye kynge of Iuda out of preson.
1560 Bible (Geneva) Judges viii. 28 Thus was Midian broght lowe..so that they lift vp their heads nomore.
1611 Bible (King James) Luke xxi. 28
1838 C. Thirlwall Hist. Greece V. 185 Olynthus..in the decline of the Spartan power had begun to lift up her head again.
d. to lift up one's heart, mind, soul: to raise one's thoughts or desires; to encourage, exalt oneself (with pride).
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > courage > encouragement > pluck up courage [verb]
findOE
to take (in early use nim) heartc1275
to have the heartc1300
to hent one's heartc1325
to pull upa1393
to fang upa1400
pluckc1400
to take courage1490
to take heart of grace (and variants)c1520
to lift up one's heart, mind, soul1535
to get (also gather, keep, etc.) heart of grace1581
hearten1587
to pluck up one's courage1660
flesh1695
pluck up courage1726
to pick up1735
to call forth1802
to pluck up1827
to muster up1893
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Psalms xxv. 1 Vnto the (o Lorde) I lift vp my soule.
1549 Bk. Common Prayer (STC 16267) Svpper of the Lorde f. cxxvi Lift vp your heartes.
1611 Bible (King James) 2 Chron. xvii. 6 His heart was lift vp in the wayes of the Lord. View more context for this quotation
1611 Bible (King James) Dan. v. 20 When his heart was lifted vp, and his minde hardened in pride. View more context for this quotation
1719 D. Defoe Life Robinson Crusoe 324 I forgot not to lift up my Heart in Thankfulness to Heaven.
e. to lift (up) a cry, one's voice, etc.: to cry out loudly. Also figurative.
ΘΚΠ
the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > cry or exclamation > cry or exclaim [verb (intransitive)]
remeeOE
ropeOE
gredec1000
epec1175
yeiec1175
ascry1352
to cry out1382
to lift (up) a cry, one's voice1382
cryc1384
outcryc1390
yawlc1400
openc1425
bursta1450
yelp?c1450
escry1483
assurd1523
to break forth1526
gaure1530
to call out?1532
exclaim1570
reclaim1611
voice1627
blathe1640
to set up one's pipes1671
bawze1677
sing1813
Great-Scott1902
yip1907
1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Luke xvii. 12 Ten leprouse men..reyside [v.r. lifteden, liften] the vois, seiynge.
1413 Pilgr. Sowle (1483) iii. iii. 52 Thenne sawe I two spirites that liften vp a wondre hidous crye.
14.. Tundale's Vis. (1843) 2302 And or he spake any thyng He lyfte up a greyt sykyng.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Judges ii. 4 The people lifte vp their voyce, & wepte.
a1586 Sir P. Sidney Apol. Poetrie (1595) sig. K2v Fit to lift vp a loude laughter, and nothing els.
1742 J. Wesley Wks. (1872) I. 351 A rude rout lift up their voice on high.
1845 M. Pattison in Christian Remembrancer Jan. 85 The voice of the dauntless Gregory was lifted in behalf of the deserted and friendless Praetextatus.
1870 J. H. Burton Hist. Scotl. to 1688 V. liv. 322 He had..an opportunity of lifting his protest against the greatest crime of the age.
1887 C. Bowen tr. Virgil Eclogues v, in tr. Virgil in Eng. Verse 35 Lo! with joy to the heavens they lift their glorious voice.
f. to lift up one's heel, horn (see those nouns).
6. To bear or carry in an elevated position; to ‘hold high’. (With some attributed notion of sense 1.)
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the world > space > relative position > posture > place into or assume a posture [verb (transitive)] > hold a posture > elevated
lift1671
1671 J. Milton Paradise Regain'd iv. 48 There the Capitol thou seest Above the rest lifting his stately head On the Tarpeian rock. View more context for this quotation
1733 A. Pope Of Use of Riches 17 Where London's Column pointing at the skies Like a tall..Bully, lifts the head, and lyes.
1764 O. Goldsmith Traveller 11 Dear is..that hill which lifts him to the storms.
1850 W. Wordsworth Prelude iii. 55 We saw The long-roofed Chapel of King's College lift Turrets and pinnacles in answering files.
7. To take up or collect (rents or moneys due); to levy (contributions, fines, etc.); to draw (wages, the amount of profits, etc.). Now dialect.
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society > trade and finance > management of money > income, revenue, or profit > getting or making money > get or make money [verb (transitive)] > earn > draw (wages)
lift1748
uplift1896
1413 Pilgr. Sowle (1483) iv. xxxiii. 81 They haue for to sene that his rentes and revenues and suche other auantages rightwysly to be lyfte.
1473 in J. Anderson Cal. Laing Charters (1899) 43 viij markis..be ws to be lyftyt ande rasit as for oure saide tairs.
1491 Act 7 Hen. VII c. 18 If the seid fyne had never be lifte.
a1639 J. Spottiswood Hist. Church Scotl. (1677) ii. 59 His person arrested, his Rents lifted by the Kings Officers.
1722 A. Ramsay Tale Three Bonnets iv. 30 He's sent To Fairyland to lift the Rent.
1748 T. Smollett Roderick Random I. xvi. 124 Entitling that person to lift his wages when they should become due.
1799 in J. Smith Hist. Jefferson Coll. (1857) 165 That a collection be lifted for the purpose of purchasing such a Dictionary as may be thought necessary for the Society.
1814 Ld. Byron Let. 3 Aug. (1975) IV. 152 Whose ‘bills’ are never ‘lifted’.
1869 C. Gibbon Robin Gray v The Laird lifted his rent.
8. slang. To take up (a portable object; cf. 1d) or drive away (cattle) with dishonest intentions; in wider sense, to steal; to steal something from (a shop, etc.); to rob. Cf. shoplifting n.
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the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > steal [verb (transitive)]
pick?c1300
takec1300
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bribec1405
usurpc1412
rapc1415
to rap and rendc1415
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to gipsy away1696
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snavel1795
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shake1811
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to run off1821
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nick1826
abduct1831
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nobble1855
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snig1862
find1865
to pull off1865
cop1879
jump1879
slock1888
swipe1889
snag1895
rip1904
snitch1904
pole1906
glom1907
boost1912
hot-stuff1914
score1914
clifty1918
to knock off1919
snoop1924
heist1930
hoist1931
rabbit1943
to rip off1967
to have off1974
the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > steal [verb (transitive)] > steal from
picka1350
lifta1529
filch1567
purloinc1571
prowl1603
touch1631
pinch1632
to pick up1687
to speak with ——1725
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shab1787
jump1789
to speak to ——1800
shake1811
spice1819
sting1819
tap1879
to knock over1928
a1529 J. Skelton Magnyfycence (?1530) sig. Diiii Conuey it be crafte lyft and lay a syde.
1592 R. Greene Quip for Vpstart Courtier sig. G3 It is reported you can lift or nip a bounge like a guire [sic] Coue.
1595 Recorder Fleetwood in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1824) 1st Ser. II. 303 Lyfte is to robbe a shoppe or a gentilmans chamber.
c1650 J. Spalding Memorialls Trubles Scotl. & Eng. (1850) I. 46 Thair cam ane company of Hielanderis and liftit out of Frendrachtis ground ane number of goodis.
1667 J. Dryden Annus Mirabilis 1666 ccxxviii. 58 But if night-robbers lift the well-stor'd Hive, An humming through their waxen City grows.
1722 A. Ramsay Tale Three Bonnets i. 7 Thieves that came to lift their Cattle.
1814 W. Scott Waverley I. xviii. 271 Donald Bean Lean never lifted less than a drove in his life. View more context for this quotation
1840 W. M. Thackeray Paris Sketch Bk. I. 150 He took to his old courses, and lifted a purse here, and a watch there.
1873 W. H. Dixon Hist. Two Queens I. vi. ii. 307 More [Scots] were bent on lifting kine and sheep.
1881 A. Lang Library 52 He used to tell how he had lifted a book..from a stall on the Pont-Neuf.
1892 R. Kipling Barrack-room Ballads 75 He has lifted the Colonel's mare that is the Colonel's pride.
1905 E. Wallace Four Just Men ix. 165 They was waitin' to cross towards Charing Cross Road when I lifted the clock.
1968 J. Lock Lady Policeman xix. 159 Goods from three or four stores would be found in them. Others would ‘lift’ a shopping bag first in which to put all the other ‘lifted’ goods.
1973 J. Wainwright Devil you Don't 107 Lift a bleedin' gun from somewhere.
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation for table or cooking > preparation of fowls > prepare fowls [verb (transitive)] > carve > swan
liftc1500
c1500 Ffor to serve a Lord in Babees Bk. (2002) i. 374 Begynne at the lifte legge first of a Swan; and lyfte a gose y-reared at the right legge first.
1508 Bk. Keruynge (de Worde) sig. A.iv Lyfte that swanne.
1804 J. Farley London Art Cookery (ed. 10) 293 To lift a swan, you must slit it quite down the middle of the breast.
10. Cards. intransitive. To cut (for deal). ? Obsolete.
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > play at cards [verb (intransitive)] > actions or tactics > deal, shuffle, or cut
cutc1555
swig1591
lift1599
misdeal1834
split1866
to slip the cut1879
1599 J. Minsheu Pleasant Dialogues Spanish & Eng. 26 in R. Percyvall & J. Minsheu Spanish Gram. I lift to see who shall deale, it must be a coate card.
1608 G. Markham & L. Machin Dumbe Knight iv. sig. H3v But come lift for the dealing, it is my chance to deale.
1674 C. Cotton Compl. Gamester xii. 121 At French-Ruff you must lift for deal.
11. transitive.figurative.1906 Daily Chron. 12 Sept. 5/7 It was freely said that if we only applied the suspensions would be lifted.1974 Nature 25 Jan. 171/3 Even if the embargo is suddenly lifted, it will take several weeks for the oil to reach United States ports.1974 Daily Tel. 4 Apr. 17/1 The university authorities yesterday lifted the temporary suspension on deliveries of supplies to the campus.
a. To take up and remove, take away; to drive (cattle) away or to market, to strike (a tent); Scottish to remove (a corpse) for burial; also absol. figurative, to remove, discontinue (restrictions, an embargo, etc.).
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society > authority > lack of subjection > permission > permit [verb (transitive)] > remove restrictions
liftc1650
the world > space > place > removal or displacement > remove or displace [verb (transitive)] > remove or take away > take up and remove
aweighOE
to cart off or awayc1440
exportc1485
hoistc1550
deportate1599
hoisea1616
deporta1641
liftc1650
the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > animal keeping practices general > herding, pasturing, or confining > [verb (transitive)] > drive away or to market
lift1840
overland1882
c1650 J. Spalding Memorialls Trubles Scotl. & Eng. (1850) I. 314 Mononday 10th August, Monro liftis his camp fra Strathbogie.
1816 W. Scott Black Dwarf xiv, in Tales of my Landlord 1st Ser. I. 254 We seem to be met at a funeral..Ellieslaw, when will you lift.
1832 H. Martineau Ireland i. 11 That's better than seeing them lifted to the pound.
1835 G. P. R. James Gipsy ii I fear that we shall be obliged to lift our tents, and quit this pleasant nook.
1836 E. B. Browning Poet's Vow v. xv They came at dawn of day To lift the lady's corpse away.
1840 Edinb. Evening Courant 19 Sept. We anticipate rather dull sales now, for a week or two, until the St Faith's droves are lifted.
1856 E. K. Kane Arctic Explor. II. vii. 79 Nearly all my hopes of lifting the sick..rest upon these dogs.
1882 Macmillan's Mag. 46 164 When an invitation is being given verbally to a funeral in Scotland, the person invited usually asks, ‘When do you lift?’
1886 C. Scott Pract. Sheep-farming 118 If..a good ewe requires a lamb [her own being dead], it may be advisable to lift a small gimmer's lamb, and put it to her.
1890 Pall Mall Gaz. 18 Sept. 7/1 A large number of families went to the church and lifted their books.
1890 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Squatter's Dream iv. 45 I haven't lifted a finer mob this season.
1890 Argus (Melbourne) 14 June 4/2 We lifted 7000 sheep.
1891 Evening Chron. (Newcastle) 31 Jan. 2/1 Interment on Sunday; to lift at Two o'clock.
1896 Daily News 4 Sept. 3/4 Some hot-headed proposals were made, one being to lift tools at once.
1936 A. Russell Gone Nomad i. ii. 11 I hope his droving mission, that of ‘lifting’ a thousand head of cattle for the markets of the south, was attended with the success it merited.
1941 I. L. Idriess Great Boomerang x. 75 Red Bill and his gang lifted their cattle. They headed south-west and got safely across to the Paroo.
b. U.S. to lift (a person's) hair: to scalp.
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1848 G. F. Ruxton Life in Far West i. ii, in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. June 725/2 ‘We'll lift the hair, any how,’ continued the first, ‘afore the scalps cold’.
c. U.S. To get rid of, pay off (a mortgage).
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1846 Oregon Spectator 30 Apr. [Mr. W.] is less able to lift my paper now, than at any former time.
1879 J. Burroughs Locusts & Wild Honey 79 The weather must lift the mortgage on his farm, and pay his taxes.
1886 F. R. Stockton Lady or Tiger? 74 So then the spectral mortgage could never be lifted.
d. Hunting. (See quot. 1968.) Also, to disperse (scent).
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the world > food and drink > hunting > hunting with hounds > hunt with hounds [verb (transitive)] > remove from lost scent
lift1781
1781 P. Beckford Thoughts on Hunting x. 147 By lifting his hounds too much, he will teach them to shuffle.
1843 Ainsworth's Mag. 4 125 I seldom allow hounds to be lifted, except to a beaten fox.
1843 Ainsworth's Mag. 4 125 To lift, in that case, is proper and justifiable.
1863 C. Mordaunt Diary 6 Mar. in C. Mordaunt & W. R. Verney Ann. Warwickshire Hunt (1896) I. 264 [The hounds] had to be lifted several times to holloas.
1919 J. Masefield Reynard the Fox ii. 85 He heard the sounds Of a cantering huntsman, lifting hounds; The ploughman had raised his hat for a sign, And the hounds were lifted and on his line.
1929 St. Andrews Citizen 16 Mar. 7 Fife Foxhounds had three poor days last week. Although the weather was good, the bright, warm sunshine ‘lifted’ scent.
1968 J. F. Gordon Beagle Guide 172 Lift, to remove hounds from a lost scent with the idea of trying to hit the line further on.
e. To give a lift to (in a carriage, motor vehicle, etc.). Cf. lift n.2 1b.
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society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > transport or convey in a vehicle [verb (transitive)] > pick up > give a lift to
lift1884
1884 E. W. Hamilton Diary 17 Aug. (1972) II. 672 A very hot walk. We got ‘lifted’ back in a carriage; and afterwards played lawn tennis.
1954 M. Sharp Gipsy in Parlour xxii. 211 Up she drove, lifted by Mr Simnel the chemist, Taunton-bound.
1959 I. Jefferies Thirteen Days vii. 87 He'd like to lift me back to Richon fairly soon as the roads were likely to tighten up during the day.
1960 Sunday Express 13 Nov. 14/5 A young R.A.F. hitch~hiker I ‘lifted’ from Shepherd's Bush to High Wycombe.
1965 I. Fleming Man with Golden Gun vi. 90 Get in the back. Lift you down to your car.
1971 M. Russell Deadline ii. 22 Can you lift me in your wagon, Wally?
f. Gunnery. transitive and intransitive. To increase the range of fire from that being used at a given point in an attack.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > action of propelling missile > discharge of firearms > management of artillery > operate artillery [verb (intransitive)] > range by shot > increase range
lift1916
society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > action of propelling missile > discharge of firearms > management of artillery > operate (artillery) [verb (transitive)] > range (a target) > increase range
lift1916
1916 in A. Farrar-Hockley Somme (1964) iii. 94 Avoid a pause at 0000, at minus three in each field battery, where one section will lift on to the support line.
1917 J. Masefield Old Front Line ii. 30 The flash of our shells, breaking a little further off as the gunners ‘lifted’.
1922 Encycl. Brit. XXX. 255/2 The bombardment is ‘lifted’ from the first line to reinforce that on the second line.
1962 Ordnance Techn. Terminol. (U.S. Army Ordnance School) 176/2 Lift fire, to advance the range of fire by elevating the muzzle of a weapon.
1964 A. Farrar-Hockley Somme iii. 96 The 18-pounders lifted on time as they passed the wire.
1964 A. Farrar-Hockley Somme iii. 98 Some aghast to see the supporting artillery fire already lifting ahead of them.
g. Of a sheepdog: to establish control over a flock of sheep. Cf. lift n.2 5i.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > sheep-farming > rear sheep [verb (intransitive)] > herd sheep > action of sheepdog
cast1911
lift1921
back1934
1921 Kelso Chron. 12 Aug. 2 This bitch started well... Her haulding, lifting, and penning were good, her bringing and driving very fair.
1942 R. B. Kelley Animal Breeding xiii. 127 When he [sc. a pup] has reached this point sit him down and make him lift the flock quietly.
1946 F. D. Davison Dusty ix. 90 The paddock, what with hills, broken ground and patches of scrub, was not the easiest in the world to lift sheep from.
1949 C. W. G. Hartley Shepherd's Dogs v. 33 Much will depend upon the manner in which the sheep are ‘lifted’.
h. To arrest, take into custody.
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society > law > administration of justice > general proceedings > arrest > [verb (transitive)]
at-holda1230
attacha1325
resta1325
takec1330
arrest1393
restay?a1400
tachec1400
seisinc1425
to take upa1438
stowc1450
seize1471
to lay (also set, clap, etc.) (a person) by the heels?1515
deprehend1532
apprehend1548
nipa1566
upsnatcha1566
finger1572
to make stay of1572
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pull1811
hobble1819
nail1823
nipper1823
bag1824
lag1847
tap1859
snaffle1860
to put the collar on1865
copper1872
to take in1878
lumber1882
to pick up1887
to pull in1893
lift1923
drag1924
to knock off1926
to put the sleeve on1930
bust1940
pop1960
vamp1970
1923 G. Watson Roxburghshire Word-bk. 200 Tam's gruppen an' liftit.
1934 D. Allan Hunger March iii. ii. 208 They've lifted Smith.
1968 ‘J. Ross’ Diminished by Death ii. 27 The youth stood. ‘Am I being lifted?’ ‘Not at the moment. You are helping us with our inquiries.’
1972 Times 24 Jan. 2/1 If you have a father who is lifted, he has sons and cousins who will take his place.
1973 ‘J. Patrick’ Glasgow Gang Observed iii. 32 A fund..to raise ten pounds bail money for two of their number who had been ‘lifted’ the night before for fighting.
i. To evacuate (soldiers) from a beach; to air-lift. Also transferred. Cf. lift n.2 5h.
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society > armed hostility > military operations > distribution of troops > [verb (transitive)] > move > evacuate
lift1941
1941 J. Masefield Nine Days Wonder 19 The first men lifted were not always soldiers.
1963 Times 24 Jan. 10/3 An emergency rail freighter service ordered by Lord Robens, chairman of the National Coal Board, is lifting thousands of tons of coal into the worst snowbound areas of south-east and south-west England.
1972 Daily Tel. 11 Apr. 17 Medical supplies, tents and food were being lifted in by helicopter last night.
12.
a. To take up out of the ground (Scottish in general sense); Horticulture to dig up (potatoes, bulbs, etc.). Also occasionally intransitive, in to lift well, of the crops or plants concerned: to produce a good yield or be in good condition when lifted.
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > picking or gathering > pick or gather [verb (transitive)] > lift or pluck root crops
pullc1350
lift1844
the world > space > place > removal or displacement > extraction > extract [verb (transitive)] > dig out or up
delvec1000
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undelve1340
grubc1374
to dig upc1400
to dig outa1425
unearthc1450
sprittle1585
effode1657
to cast up1660
exhume1783
moot1823
excavate1848
lift1883
spud1886
pig-root1890
the world > existence and causation > creation > productiveness > be productive [verb (intransitive)]
yield1297
fruit1377
seeda1398
germ1483
buddle1581
fructuate1663
seminate1676
teem1746
spend1854
to lift well1959
the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > picking or gathering > [verb (intransitive)] > of crops: lift well
to lift well1959
1844 H. Stephens Bk. of Farm III. 1125 When lifted for shipment to the London market, they [potatoes] are first riddled into sizes, then [etc.].
1883 J. Purves in Contemp. Rev. Sept. 354 The tall, strong farm-women ‘lifting’ the potatoes.
1883 R. L. Stevenson Treasure Island i. i. 1 There is still treasure not yet lifted.
1884 T. Hardy Interlopers at Knap in Eng. Illustr. Mag. May 513/1 The next day went about his swede-lifting and storing.
1888 L. Castle Flower Gardening 232 November... Lift Gladioli corms, storing them in a dry place; also Dahlia tubers.
1891 ‘H. Haliburton’ Ochil Idylls 106 The dreels [of potatoes] are to lift, An' the neeps are to pu'.
1892 E. Reeves Homeward Bound 334 She had come over to Paris to lift his remains and remove them to another place.
1892 Dixon's Seed Catal. 25 Fifty~fold [potato]..which may be lifted July and August.
1931 Morning Post 19 July 5/1 What to do with the bulbs at this season when, apparently, they are sleeping, has for long been a rather controversial point. Should they be left or lifted?
1959 Times 7 Sept. 19/2 Some crops [of potatoes] in Lincolnshire are lifting well, others are below average.
1971 ‘L. Black’ Death has Green Fingers vii. 83 Suppose whoever it was had lifted the roses already.
1973 Times 20 Oct. 14/6 Nurseries..cannot lift and pack all their orders in a month.
b. Scottish. To carry (a crop), clear (a cornfield).
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1876 A. Laing Lindores Abbey xxiv. 309 He went and searched the ground after the crop was lifted.
1883 J. E. Hopkins Autumn Swallows, Bormus Down from the lifted cornfield trips The child.
13. To hit (the ball) into the air; esp. in Cricket: often with the bowler as object.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > batting > bat [verb (transitive)] > hit > hit with specific stroke
take1578
stop1744
nip1752
block1772
drive1773
cut1816
draw1816
tip1816
poke1836
spoon1836
mow1844
to put up1845
smother1845
sky1849
crump1850
to pick up1851
pull1851
skyrocket1851
swipe1851
to put down1860
to get away1868
smite1868
snick1871
lift1874
crack1882
smack1882
off-drive1888
snip1890
leg1892
push1893
hook1896
flick1897
on-drive1897
chop1898
glance1898
straight drive1898
cart1903
edge1904
tonk1910
sweep1920
mishook1934
middle1954
square-drive1954
tickle1963
square-cut1976
slash1977
splice1982
paddle1986
1874 Times 5 Oct. 11/2 When the [golf] ball must be ‘skied’, or lifted over some swell of the ground.
1882 Daily Tel. 24 June W. G. lifted Spofforth round to the leg boundary.
1894 N. Gale Cricket Songs (new ed.) 31 He lifts you o'er the Baths for six.
1897 Daily News 16 June 3/4 Hill, as is his custom, lifted the ball a good deal.
Compounds
Liftback n. the name of a type of hatchback car manufactured by the Toyota motor corporation; occasionally (with small initial) applied to other makes of car, = hatchback n. 1
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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > powered vehicle > motor car > [noun] > specific model
Olds1907
Model T1909
Ford1914
Rolls1915
Merc1930
T-model1932
beetle1958
T-bird1958
VW1958
Mini1959
Moke1959
deux-chevaux1962
Mini-Moke1962
Liftback1973
Beemer1978
Roller1979
foreign2010
1973 Motor 5 May 42/3 Toyota have launched two new models in Japan. One is..a 2-litre fastback with opening tailgate... The 2-litre car is an addition to the Celica range and is called The Liftback.
1977 Belfast Tel. 17 Jan. 14/6 (advt.) Kadett City. A stylish Lift Back that combines good passenger accommodation along with economical and practical motoring.
1979 Arizona Daily Star 1 Apr. (Advt. section) 6/7 Chevette—liftback—economy 4 cylinder with auto. trans.
1985 Daily Tel. 26 June 13 (advt.) The Celica is one of two models (you can also have a liftback).
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the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > ale or beer > ale > [noun] > strong ale
merry-go-downa1500
king's ale1574
nippitatum1576
angels' food1577
huff-cap1577
mad dog1577
lift-leg1587
barley-broth1593
huma1625
stitchback1671
bummocka1688
hum-cap1699
Burton1738
stitch1742
old boy1743
barley-bree1786
huff1790
Morocco1792
old1884
1587 W. Harrison Descr. Eng. (1877) ii. xviii. i. 295 There is such headie ale and beere in most of them, as..is commonlie called huffecap,..stride wide, and lift leg.
lift-off n. used esp. attributively, a method of hoisting containers from one vessel or vehicle to another.
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society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > transport of goods in a vehicle > [noun] > method of hoisting containers
lift-off1956
1956 Sun (Baltimore) 16 Oct. 18/3 The relative merits of ‘roll-on, roll-off’ shipping, where trailers would be rolled aboard, and of ‘lift-on, lift-off’ service involving only a truck van.
1967 Freight Management Jan. 15/1 (advt.) Last year Southampton handled thousands of containers by lift-on/lift-off.
1968 Economist 14 Sept. p. xxxiv/1 The North Sea is now the focal point of a fight between two new forms of transport, the roll-on, roll-off ferry services..and lift-on, lift-off container services.
1969 Jane's Freight Containers 1968–9 160/3 Lift-on Lift-off Unitised Loads.
lift-on n. attributive.
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1967 Freight Management Jan. 46/3 Basically roll-on is more expensive than lift-on.
1967 Freight Management Jan. 47/3 (caption) The tanks..can be used on both roll-on or lift-on vessels.
1969 Jane's Freight Containers 1968–9 73 (caption) Simultaneous roll-on and lift-on of trailers make possible a trip a week to Puerto Rico.
lift-out n. attributive made to lift out.
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the world > space > place > removal or displacement > extraction > [adjective] > able to be lifted out
lift-out1926
1926–7 Army & Navy Stores Catal. 314/2 These boilers are..fitted with a shaking grating and lift-out ashes pan.
1968 Harrods Christmas Catal. 3/4 Beauty case with inside pockets and lift-out tray.
1974 Country Life 14 Mar. (Suppl.) 41/1 Arm Chair with lift out seat covered in green velvet.
lift-up n. attributive made to lift up.
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > upward movement > raising > [adjective] > lifting > that can be lifted
liftable1856
lift-up1917
1917 Installation News Jan. 5/1 The Cabinets comprise a substantially constructed stained box, fitted with lift-up lid, lock and key.
1950 N.Z. Jrnl. Agric. Aug. 132/1 The lift-up gate opens by sliding up between guides fixed to uprights.
1956 Railway Mag. Feb. 121/1 There is a separate sheet steel case with lift-up cover containing the engineman's telephone.
1970 Guardian 19 Nov. 11/6 Two swing-out drawers, one with a lift-up mirror.
Draft additions 1997
To be or become visible above or against the surrounding landscape. Now rare or poetic.
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the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > visibility > be visible [verb (intransitive)] > be clearly visible > by contrast
relieve1795
to stand out1835
lift1912
1590 E. Spenser F.Q. ii. ix. 45 That Turrets frame most admirable was..And lifted high aboue this earthly masse, Which it suruewd, as hils doen lower ground.]
1912 H. Belloc This & That 125 The chestnuts made a dark belt from which the tall graces of the birches lifted.
1930 W. Faulkner As I lay Dying 221 Against the sky ahead the massed telephone lines run, and the clock on the courthouse lifts among the trees.
Draft additions 1997
a. transferred. To take and use in one's writing (another person's words, subject, idea, etc.). Also absol.
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the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > plagiarism > plagiarize [verb (transitive)]
usurpc1412
steal1544
plagiarize1660
book-pad1685
pirate1706
cabbage1773
crib1778
lift1885
plunder1896
the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > plagiarism > plagiarize [verb (intransitive)]
plagiarize1660
lift1951
1885 Spectator 10 Jan. 51/2 In painting-in his background, he is, therefore, reasonably entitled to ‘lift’ his materials wherever he finds them.
1892 Nation (N.Y.) 15 Dec. 456/3 All that is vitally concerned with Lincoln, is lifted bodily from Herndon's book.
1921 G. B. Shaw Back to Methuselah Pref. p. viii The surest way to produce an effect of..originality was..to lift characters bodily out of the pages of Charles Dickens.
1951 E. B. White Let. ?Oct. (1976) 342 Here's a college president lifting from another college president, for his maiden speech.
1963 L. MacNeice Varieties of Parable (1965) iii. 67 Coleridge had lifted some tricks from Percy's Reliques but it does not read like pastiche or parody.
1979 C. James At Pillars of Hercules i. ii. 47 The lines about Leonidas are lifted straight from the Imitations version of Rilke's ‘Die Tauben’.
1986 Listener 4 Dec. 25/1 Life is Elsewhere, a title Kundera lifts from the end of André Breton's first Surrealist manifesto.
b. Sport. To win, to carry off (a trophy or title).
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society > leisure > sport > winning, losing, or scoring > win, lose, or score [verb (transitive)] > carry off trophy or title
lift1901
1901 Outing June 320/1 Another challenge has now been received from them..and a second attempt to ‘lift’ the Davis Cup will be made this season.
1940 N. Monks Squadrons Up! vi. 162 The boys were certainly proud of their aircraft, but they made up their minds to lift that gold cup for the crazy-flying event, and their two crack flyers went into training.
1969 Femina (Bombay) 26 Dec. 45/1 The versatile collegians of Bombay lifted the Inter-Varsity table tennis, kabaddi and swimming titles.
1977 Belfast Tel. 28 Feb. 20/1 Wolves, bidding to become the third Second Division side in five years to lift the FA cup.
1991 Highways & Transportation Sept. 24/3 Extremely heavy showers did not deter the golfers and especially Neil Balmer who lifted the trophy with an excellent score of 40 points.
Draft additions 1997
U.S. Criminology. To take up an impression of (a fingerprint or fingerprints) from an object, usually by means of adhesive tape.
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society > communication > indication > marking > a mark > trace or vestige > [verb (transitive)] > record fingerprint > take up an impression of fingerprint(s)
lift1931
1931 H. Battley Single Finger Prints vi. 75 Latent impressions may be transferred or lifted after development by means of Folien,..a dark surface to which an adhesive preparation has been applied.
1942 B. C. Bridges Pract. Fingerprinting xiii. 257 Despite its usefulness in lifting latents, Scotch tape..has some disadvantages.
1951 W. R. Scott Fingerprint Mechanics 182 Prints in some cases can be lifted more than once.
1978 S. Brill Teamsters vi. 225 They were able to lift a fingerprint off the title.
1986 Jrnl. (Fairfax County, Va.) 28 May a3/2 Arlington County police have talked to witnesses and lifted fingerprints from the stolen convertible.
Draft additions March 2019
to lift (up) a person's spirits: to cheer or encourage a person; to improve a person's mood, confidence, or enthusiasm; cf. to raise a person's spirits at raise v.1 7a.
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the mind > emotion > pleasure > cheerfulness > make cheerful [verb (transitive)]
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to do a person's heart good1575
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to lift (up) a person's spirits1711
cheerfulize1781
blithen1824
pearten1827
chirk1843
to chipper up1873
to chirp up188.
to buck up1909
the mind > emotion > courage > encouragement > encourage or embolden [verb (transitive)]
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to give mettle to1689
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to lift (up) a person's spirits1711
reman1715
to make a man of1722
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to cocker up1762
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1711 E. Budgell Spectator No. 116 I must confess the Brightness of the Weather, the Chearfulness of every thing around me.., lifted my Spirits into a most lively Pleasure.
1754 A. Murphy Gray's Inn Jrnl. 20 July 254 The exhilerating Cup had lifted his Spirits into a tolerable Degree of Cheerfulness.
1896 N.Y. Times 6 Sept. The first act was depressing, and there was nothing to lift one's spirits in Act II.
1945 B. Webster Mrs. Heriot's House v. 60 Mrs. Heriot had a sylvan soul; a glade of forest trees lifted up her spirits as nothing else could.
2016 Countryman (W. Austral.) (Nexis) 28 Apr. 21 If the sight of the memorial lifts people's spirits, we have achieved something.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1903; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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