liftingn.

/ˈlɪftɪŋ/

Etymology: < lift v. + -ing suffix¹.

a. The action of lift v. in various senses. Also lifting up. †Also concrete in hand-lifting: so much as can be taken up by the hand. †at the lifting: on the point of removal.

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the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > [noun]

theft688

stalec950

stealc1200

stoutha1300

stealing13..

stealtha1325

lifting1362

briberya1387

stoutheriec1440

larcenya1475

larcerya1500

conveyancea1529

thieving1530

bribing1533

larcinc1535

embezzling1540

embezzlement1548

thiefdom?1549

theftdom1566

bribering1567

milling1567

thievery1568

larcinry1634

panyarring1703

abduction1766

smugging1825

pickup1846

lurking1851

make1860

tea-leafing1899

snitching1933

lapping1950

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

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

society > authority > lack of subjection > rebelliousness > insurrection > [noun]

arising1340

rebeltyc1384

rebellion1409

rebela1425

insurrection1459

commotion1471

mutationa1513

revolting1539

mutine1560

head1597

sollevation1605

sublevation1612

liftinga1662

insurgence1863

the world > space > place > removal or displacement > [phrase] > on the point of removal

at the lifting1674

society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > [noun] > actions or tactics > dealing, cutting, or shuffling

shuffling1579

deal1607

shuffle1651

lifting1674

cut1729

misdeal1797

riffle1862

ruffle1872

long deal1893

handout1904

the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > [noun] > going away specifically of a thing > of unpleasant thing

lifting1856

the world > space > place > removal or displacement > [noun] > removal or taking away > by lifting

lifting1884

1362 W. Langland Piers Plowman A. v. 204 Glotoun was a gret cherl and grym in þe lyftynge.

a1400–50 Alexander 567 Stanys [which] Fell fra þe fyrmament as a hand lyftyng.

1482 Monk of Evesham 107 The lyftyngys vppe of the crosse.

1551 Bible (Matthew's) Gen. xxiv. (margin) The exercise of the spirit & lyftynge vp of the mind to God, ar called medytacions.

1590 King James VI & I Speech Gen. Assembly Aug. in D. Calderwood True Hist. Church of Scotl. (1628) 256 As for our Neighbour Kirk in England,..they want nothing of the Masse, but the liftings.

1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 414 Surbating..commeth..sometime by the hardnesse of the grounde, and high lifting of the Horse.

c1650 J. Spalding Memorialls Trubles Scotl. & Eng. (1850) I. 321 This army..by and attour 10,000 bagage men, is now at the lifting.

a1662 P. Heylyn Cyprianus Anglicus (1668) i. 170 There had been some liftings at him in the Court by Sir John Cook.

1674 C. Cotton Compl. Gamester xv. 129 In the lifting for dealing the least deals.

1754 E. Burt Lett. N. Scotl. II. xxiii. 230 The stealing of Cows they call Lifting, a soft'ning Word for Theft.

1856 E. K. Kane Arctic Explor. I. xxiii. 285 A sudden lifting of the fog showed them the cape.

1872 C. Hardwick Trad., Superstitions, & Folk-lore 74 The ‘lifting’ of women by men on Easter Monday.

1884 D. Pae Eustace xix. 244 The cargo is ours for the lifting.

1901 W. D. Howells Lit. Friends ii. vi. 89 In a lifting of the rain he walked with me down to the village.

b. The raising of sick or weak cattle to enable them to stand. Cf. lift v. 1f. So at the lifting, very weak.

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the world > health and disease > ill health > [adjective] > in state of ill health or diseased > weak > very weak

at the lifting1812

the world > health and disease > healing > veterinary medicine and surgery > [noun] > veterinary procedures > raising sick or weak cattle

lifting1899

the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping of cattle > [noun] > keeper of cattle > tender of cattle > tending sick cattle

lifting1899

1812 W. Singer Agric. County of Dumfries 220 They become quite lean, almost ‘at the lifting’, as the farmers say.

1899 H. G. Graham Social Life Scotl. 18th Cent. I. 155 This period and this annual operation when all neighbours were summoned to carry and support the poor beasts, were known as the ‘Lifting’.

1901 M. Franklin My Brilliant Career v. 27 My mother and father and I spent the day in lifting our cows... This cow-lifting became quite a trade.

c. In competitive walking, the raising of the rear heel before the front foot touches the ground.

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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > racing on foot > [noun] > walking race > action

lifting1867

1867 Athlete 1866 119 Lifting, the usual method of walking unfairly, is done by getting a spring from the toe of one foot on to the heel of the other.

1898 F. A. Cohen in W. A. Morgan ‘House’ on Sport 433 What is technically called ‘lifting’ is, except perhaps in a final burst, seldom of any real advantage.

Compounds

C1. General attributive.

lifting power n.

ΚΠ

1849 H. M. Noad Lect. Electr. (ed. 3) 357 A much greater lifting power has..been obtained with other varieties of the electro-magnet.

lifting trade n.

ΚΠ

1709 T. Hearne Remarks & Coll. (1886) II. 185 This Gentleman..is remarkable for carrying on the lifting Trade.

b. A contrivance or portion of a machine adapted for lifting.

lifting-bar n.

ΚΠ

1831 G. R. Porter Treat. Silk Manuf. 247 The lifting bars which in shape are something like blunted knife blades.

lifting-blade n.

lifting-cog n.

ΚΠ

1852 R. Burn Naval & Mil. Techn. Dict. French Lang. (ed. 2) ii. 150 Lifter or Lifting-cog, cam, or wiper..came, levéé.

lifting-crane n.

ΚΠ

1879 Cassell's Techn. Educator (new ed.) I. 206/2 These three requisites are very beautifully combined..in the lifting crane.

lifting-gear n.

ΚΠ

1887 Daily News 22 Oct. 2/7 The pinnace was crushed through the breaking of the lifting gear.

lifting-hitch n.

lifting-hook n.

ΚΠ

1831 G. R. Porter Treat. Silk Manuf. 247 Half the number of lifting hooks are attached to the lifting bars.

lifting-pallet n.

ΚΠ

1825 ‘J. Nicholson’ Operative Mechanic 513 That the end of the..spring..may project a little way over the point of the lifting-pallet.

lifting-piece n.

ΚΠ

1704 J. Harris Lexicon Technicum I Lifting-pieces, are Parts of a Clock, which do lift up and unlock the Detents in the Clock-part.

1881 F. J. Britten Watch & Clockmakers' Handbk. (ed. 4) 116 There are four pins in the minute wheel for raising the quarter lifting piece.

lifting-rod n.

lifting-screw n.

lifting-tongs n.

lifting-wire n.

C2.

lifting beam n. a beam, fitted to a crane hook, to which a load may be attached in two or more places.

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society > occupation and work > equipment > lifting or hoisting equipment > [noun] > crane > parts of

crane-line1466

ram's head1611

crane-wheel1669

ram-head1686

gibbet1730

calliper1765

jib1765

outrigger1835

clutch1874

crab1874

gabbard1952

spreader1957

lifting beam1963

1963 R. Hammond Mobile & Movable Cranes vi. 167 Aluminium-alloy lifting beams are very useful for getting the most out of crane-lifting capacity.

1969 Jane's Freight Containers 1968–9 130/1 There are new lifting beams used with existing straddle cranes to handle 24 ft. and 20 ft. containers.

lifting-cam n. a cam or projection by which a lifting movement is effected, e.g. in firearms.

ΚΠ

1881 W. W. Greener Gun & its Devel. 359 The lifting-cams or ‘dogs’, are dispensed with.

Categories »

lifting-day n. local = heaving-day n. at heaving n. Compounds.

lifting-dog n. (a) = lifting-cam n.; (b) (see quot. 1881²).

ΚΠ

1881 W. W. Greener Gun & its Devel. 264 Knock the wire pivot right through the lifting dogs.

1881 Trans. Amer. Inst. Mining Engineers 1880–1 9 152 Lifting-dog, a claw-hook for grasping a column of bore-rods while raising or lowering them.

lifting-jack n. (see Jack n.² 11).

lifting plate n. (see quot. 1888).

ΚΠ

1888 Lockwood's Dict. Mech. Engin. 208 Lifting plates, plates of wrought or malleable cast iron furnished with holes both for rapping and screwing, and let into or screwed on the faces of patterns; and by which they are lifted from the sand, a lifting screw being inserted into the tapped hole in the plate.

1925 J. G. Horner Pattern Making (ed. 5) iii. 56 Screws..either twisted into the wood of the pattern or..fitting into corresponding tapped holes in the lifting plates attached to the pattern face, are used.

lifting screw n. a hook with a threaded shank which can be screwed into an object to facilitate its lifting (see also lifting adj.).

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society > occupation and work > equipment > lifting or hoisting equipment > [noun] > others

polancre1356

spindle1398

wrest1584

handscrew?1660

sea-crab1689

lewis1743

crab1753

wheel and axle (also axis)1773

tippler1831

fall1834

outrigger hoist1835

lewisson1842

power hoist1869

tipper1870

lifting screw1885

powerlifter1909

bucket chain1911

bracket-crab-

1885 J. G. Horner Pattern Making xxii. 158 Figs. 206, 207 show two different forms of these [sc. rapping] plates, a being the plain hole for rapping, b the tapped hole for the reception of a lifting-screw.

1925 J. G. Horner Pattern Making (ed. 5) iii. 59 A central hole bored through the boss for the lifting screw.

1944 E. D. Howard Mod. Foundry Pract. Index 383/1 Lifting screw.

Draft additions 1997

plural. Commerce. The amount of a product, usually mineral oil, transported through or out of a particular place, or by a particular means.

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society > trade and finance > merchandise > [noun] > imports or exports > types of

sufferance goods1774

run1789

indent1801

export reject1952

parallel imports1966

liftings1973

1973 Oil & Gas Jrnl. 29 Oct. 51/3 Exxon Corp...listed gross production of 2.59 million b/d and liftings of another 411,000 b/d.

1983 Austral. Transport Aug. 11/3 Liftings have increased dramatically since we concluded this agreement. We are increasing our capacity at a time when other lines are cutting back.

1988 Financial Times 22 Mar. 30/5 MISC said that, although the current levels of liftings in the liner container trade and freight and charter hire rates should hold for the first half of this year, long-term prospects are still uncertain.

Draft additions 1997

lifting tape n. Criminology a kind of adhesive tape used for lifting fingerprints.

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society > communication > indication > marking > a mark > trace or vestige > [noun] > fingerprint > equipment used for lifting prints

lifting tape1942

1942 B. C. Bridges Pract. Fingerprinting xiii. 258 With this type of lifting tape there is provided celluloid or acetate cover material to which the tape may be affixed after the latent impression has been lifted.

1942 B. C. Bridges Pract. Fingerprinting xiii. 258 The technique of using this transparent lifting tape is easy.

1983 J. F. Cowger Friction Ridge Skin iv. 87 After making the lift, lifting tape is adhered to lift cards.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1903; most recently modified version published online March 2019).

liftingadj.

/ˈlɪftɪŋ/

Etymology: < lift v. + -ing suffix².

That lifts, in senses of the verb, spec. in lifting-bridge n. a bridge of which either a part or the whole may be drawn up at one end when needful. lifting-gate n. = lift n.² 15. lifting plough n. one which raises the soil it passes through. lifting-pump n. any pump other than a force-pump. lifting-sail n. a sail whose action tends to lift the bows out of the water. lifting-set n. ‘the series of pumps by which water is raised from the bottom of a mine by successive lifts’ (E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. 1875). Also, in Aeronautics, providing lift; lifting body n. a (wingless) spacecraft with a shape designed to produce lift, so that some aerodynamic control of its flight is possible within the atmosphere. lifting screw n. a rotor operating in a horizontal plane so as to provide lift for a flying machine (see also lifting n.).

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society > travel > travel by water > action or motion of vessel > [adjective] > riding on the waves

liftingc1400

the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > upward movement > raising > [adjective] > lifting

lifting1686

uplifting1818

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

society > travel > air or space travel > a means of conveyance through the air > rotary wing aircraft > [noun] > parts of rotary wing aircraft > rotor

ascensional screw1901

lifting screw1902

rotor1915

windmill1931

tilting rotor1940

tilt rotor1961

society > travel > air or space travel > specific movements or positions of aircraft > aerodynamic forces and concepts > [adjective] > lift or drag

lift-drag1919

lifting1919

society > travel > air or space travel > a means of conveyance through the air > spacecraft > [noun] > spacecraft of specific shape

lifting body1964

c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness l. 443 After harde dayez wern out an hundreth & fyfte, As þat lyftande lome [the ark] luged aboute.

1686 J. Dunton Lett. from New Eng. (1867) 8 Even the Parson himselfe..gave me a lifting hand.

1797 Encycl. Brit. IX. 17/2 Of lifting-pumps there are several sorts.

1839 R. S. Robinson Naut. Steam Engine Explained 65 On the top of the air bucket fits the lifting valve.

1851 Official Descriptive & Illustr. Catal. Great Exhib. IV. 1148 Swing, lifting, or rolling bridges are..in such cases indispensable.

1875 J. Lukin Carpentry & Joinery 135 These double-legged tables are very generally made with a rack to allow of their rising by the application of a lifting force.

1879 Scribner's Monthly Dec. 239/2 A subsoil or lifting plow which stirs and loosens the substratum without bringing it to the surface.

1882 G. S. Nares Seamanship (ed. 6) 205 The jib and flying-jib are..lifting sails.

1894 Daily News 19 June 6/5 The supremely interesting feature of this really great work are the lifting bascules.

1895–6 Cal. Univ. Nebraska 215 By its use the extensor or lifting muscles are developed.

1898 Daily News 16 Nov. 7/1 The mechanism of the lifting roadway is so perfect in its action.

1902 F. Walker Aërial Navigation v. 79 The lifting screws.

1908 Jrnl. Royal Soc. Arts 57 53/1 The Helicoptère, or lifting-screw flying machine.

1919 H. Shaw Text-bk. Aeronaut. ix. 111 In some machines it is arranged that the tail carries a portion of the load, when it is known as a ‘lifting’ tail.

1923 Daily Mail 12 Feb. 7 While aloft the pilot can change the action of his planes so that they cease to act as vertical lifting-screws and function like the surfaces of an aeroplane.

1935 P. W. F. Mills Elem. Pract. Flying i. 1 Aeroplanes..cannot fly backwards owing to their fixed thrust direction and the arrangement of their lifting surfaces.

1964 Britannica Bk. of Year 868/1 Lifting body, a wingless, somewhat bathtub-shaped vehicle for aerospace travel that combines some of the heat-handling capacity of a capsule with some of the maneuverability of a wingless aircraft.

1966 McGraw-Hill Encycl. Sci. & Technol. (rev. ed.) VI. 388/2 The disk loading [of a helicopter]..expresses the design gross weight as a function of the swept areas of the lifting rotor.

1969 K. Munson Pioneer Aircraft 1903–14 104/2 The Blériot III was also a floatplane, with annular lifting surfaces fore and aft.

1972 A. C. Kermode Mech. of Flight (ed. 8) xii. 390 These lifting bodies are but a step towards a shuttle service operating to and from a space station orbiting the earth.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1903; most recently modified version published online June 2018).

单词	lifting
释义	liftingn. /ˈlɪftɪŋ/ Etymology: < lift v. + -ing suffix¹. a. The action of lift v. in various senses. Also lifting up. †Also concrete in hand-lifting: so much as can be taken up by the hand. †at the lifting: on the point of removal. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > [noun] theft688 stalec950 stealc1200 stoutha1300 stealing13.. stealtha1325 lifting1362 briberya1387 stoutheriec1440 larcenya1475 larcerya1500 conveyancea1529 thieving1530 bribing1533 larcinc1535 embezzling1540 embezzlement1548 thiefdom?1549 theftdom1566 bribering1567 milling1567 thievery1568 larcinry1634 panyarring1703 abduction1766 smugging1825 pickup1846 lurking1851 make1860 tea-leafing1899 snitching1933 lapping1950 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 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 society > authority > lack of subjection > rebelliousness > insurrection > [noun] arising1340 rebeltyc1384 rebellion1409 rebela1425 insurrection1459 commotion1471 mutationa1513 revolting1539 mutine1560 head1597 sollevation1605 sublevation1612 liftinga1662 insurgence1863 the world > space > place > removal or displacement > [phrase] > on the point of removal at the lifting1674 society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > [noun] > actions or tactics > dealing, cutting, or shuffling shuffling1579 deal1607 shuffle1651 lifting1674 cut1729 misdeal1797 riffle1862 ruffle1872 long deal1893 handout1904 the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > [noun] > going away specifically of a thing > of unpleasant thing lifting1856 the world > space > place > removal or displacement > [noun] > removal or taking away > by lifting lifting1884 1362 W. Langland Piers Plowman A. v. 204 Glotoun was a gret cherl and grym in þe lyftynge. a1400–50 Alexander 567 Stanys [which] Fell fra þe fyrmament as a hand lyftyng. 1482 Monk of Evesham 107 The lyftyngys vppe of the crosse. 1551 Bible (Matthew's) Gen. xxiv. (margin) The exercise of the spirit & lyftynge vp of the mind to God, ar called medytacions. 1590 King James VI & I Speech Gen. Assembly Aug. in D. Calderwood True Hist. Church of Scotl. (1628) 256 As for our Neighbour Kirk in England,..they want nothing of the Masse, but the liftings. 1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 414 Surbating..commeth..sometime by the hardnesse of the grounde, and high lifting of the Horse. c1650 J. Spalding Memorialls Trubles Scotl. & Eng. (1850) I. 321 This army..by and attour 10,000 bagage men, is now at the lifting. a1662 P. Heylyn Cyprianus Anglicus (1668) i. 170 There had been some liftings at him in the Court by Sir John Cook. 1674 C. Cotton Compl. Gamester xv. 129 In the lifting for dealing the least deals. 1754 E. Burt Lett. N. Scotl. II. xxiii. 230 The stealing of Cows they call Lifting, a soft'ning Word for Theft. 1856 E. K. Kane Arctic Explor. I. xxiii. 285 A sudden lifting of the fog showed them the cape. 1872 C. Hardwick Trad., Superstitions, & Folk-lore 74 The ‘lifting’ of women by men on Easter Monday. 1884 D. Pae Eustace xix. 244 The cargo is ours for the lifting. 1901 W. D. Howells Lit. Friends ii. vi. 89 In a lifting of the rain he walked with me down to the village. b. The raising of sick or weak cattle to enable them to stand. Cf. lift v. 1f. So at the lifting, very weak. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > [adjective] > in state of ill health or diseased > weak > very weak at the lifting1812 the world > health and disease > healing > veterinary medicine and surgery > [noun] > veterinary procedures > raising sick or weak cattle lifting1899 the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping of cattle > [noun] > keeper of cattle > tender of cattle > tending sick cattle lifting1899 1812 W. Singer Agric. County of Dumfries 220 They become quite lean, almost ‘at the lifting’, as the farmers say. 1899 H. G. Graham Social Life Scotl. 18th Cent. I. 155 This period and this annual operation when all neighbours were summoned to carry and support the poor beasts, were known as the ‘Lifting’. 1901 M. Franklin My Brilliant Career v. 27 My mother and father and I spent the day in lifting our cows... This cow-lifting became quite a trade. c. In competitive walking, the raising of the rear heel before the front foot touches the ground. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > racing on foot > [noun] > walking race > action lifting1867 1867 Athlete 1866 119 Lifting, the usual method of walking unfairly, is done by getting a spring from the toe of one foot on to the heel of the other. 1898 F. A. Cohen in W. A. Morgan ‘House’ on Sport 433 What is technically called ‘lifting’ is, except perhaps in a final burst, seldom of any real advantage. Compounds C1. General attributive. a. lifting power n. ΚΠ 1849 H. M. Noad Lect. Electr. (ed. 3) 357 A much greater lifting power has..been obtained with other varieties of the electro-magnet. lifting trade n. ΚΠ 1709 T. Hearne Remarks & Coll. (1886) II. 185 This Gentleman..is remarkable for carrying on the lifting Trade. b. A contrivance or portion of a machine adapted for lifting. lifting-bar n. ΚΠ 1831 G. R. Porter Treat. Silk Manuf. 247 The lifting bars which in shape are something like blunted knife blades. lifting-blade n. lifting-cog n. ΚΠ 1852 R. Burn Naval & Mil. Techn. Dict. French Lang. (ed. 2) ii. 150 Lifter or Lifting-cog, cam, or wiper..came, levéé. lifting-crane n. ΚΠ 1879 Cassell's Techn. Educator (new ed.) I. 206/2 These three requisites are very beautifully combined..in the lifting crane. lifting-gear n. ΚΠ 1887 Daily News 22 Oct. 2/7 The pinnace was crushed through the breaking of the lifting gear. lifting-hitch n. lifting-hook n. ΚΠ 1831 G. R. Porter Treat. Silk Manuf. 247 Half the number of lifting hooks are attached to the lifting bars. lifting-pallet n. ΚΠ 1825 ‘J. Nicholson’ Operative Mechanic 513 That the end of the..spring..may project a little way over the point of the lifting-pallet. lifting-piece n. ΚΠ 1704 J. Harris Lexicon Technicum I Lifting-pieces, are Parts of a Clock, which do lift up and unlock the Detents in the Clock-part. 1881 F. J. Britten Watch & Clockmakers' Handbk. (ed. 4) 116 There are four pins in the minute wheel for raising the quarter lifting piece. lifting-rod n. lifting-screw n. lifting-tongs n. lifting-wire n. C2. lifting beam n. a beam, fitted to a crane hook, to which a load may be attached in two or more places. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > lifting or hoisting equipment > [noun] > crane > parts of crane-line1466 ram's head1611 crane-wheel1669 ram-head1686 gibbet1730 calliper1765 jib1765 outrigger1835 clutch1874 crab1874 gabbard1952 spreader1957 lifting beam1963 1963 R. Hammond Mobile & Movable Cranes vi. 167 Aluminium-alloy lifting beams are very useful for getting the most out of crane-lifting capacity. 1969 Jane's Freight Containers 1968–9 130/1 There are new lifting beams used with existing straddle cranes to handle 24 ft. and 20 ft. containers. lifting-cam n. a cam or projection by which a lifting movement is effected, e.g. in firearms. ΚΠ 1881 W. W. Greener Gun & its Devel. 359 The lifting-cams or ‘dogs’, are dispensed with. Categories » lifting-day n. local = heaving-day n. at heaving n. Compounds. lifting-dog n. (a) = lifting-cam n.; (b) (see quot. 1881²). ΚΠ 1881 W. W. Greener Gun & its Devel. 264 Knock the wire pivot right through the lifting dogs. 1881 Trans. Amer. Inst. Mining Engineers 1880–1 9 152 Lifting-dog, a claw-hook for grasping a column of bore-rods while raising or lowering them. lifting-jack n. (see Jack n.² 11). lifting plate n. (see quot. 1888). ΚΠ 1888 Lockwood's Dict. Mech. Engin. 208 Lifting plates, plates of wrought or malleable cast iron furnished with holes both for rapping and screwing, and let into or screwed on the faces of patterns; and by which they are lifted from the sand, a lifting screw being inserted into the tapped hole in the plate. 1925 J. G. Horner Pattern Making (ed. 5) iii. 56 Screws..either twisted into the wood of the pattern or..fitting into corresponding tapped holes in the lifting plates attached to the pattern face, are used. lifting screw n. a hook with a threaded shank which can be screwed into an object to facilitate its lifting (see also lifting adj.). ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > lifting or hoisting equipment > [noun] > others polancre1356 spindle1398 wrest1584 handscrew?1660 sea-crab1689 lewis1743 crab1753 wheel and axle (also axis)1773 tippler1831 fall1834 outrigger hoist1835 lewisson1842 power hoist1869 tipper1870 lifting screw1885 powerlifter1909 bucket chain1911 bracket-crab- 1885 J. G. Horner Pattern Making xxii. 158 Figs. 206, 207 show two different forms of these [sc. rapping] plates, a being the plain hole for rapping, b the tapped hole for the reception of a lifting-screw. 1925 J. G. Horner Pattern Making (ed. 5) iii. 59 A central hole bored through the boss for the lifting screw. 1944 E. D. Howard Mod. Foundry Pract. Index 383/1 Lifting screw. Draft additions 1997 plural. Commerce. The amount of a product, usually mineral oil, transported through or out of a particular place, or by a particular means. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > merchandise > [noun] > imports or exports > types of sufferance goods1774 run1789 indent1801 export reject1952 parallel imports1966 liftings1973 1973 Oil & Gas Jrnl. 29 Oct. 51/3 Exxon Corp...listed gross production of 2.59 million b/d and liftings of another 411,000 b/d. 1983 Austral. Transport Aug. 11/3 Liftings have increased dramatically since we concluded this agreement. We are increasing our capacity at a time when other lines are cutting back. 1988 Financial Times 22 Mar. 30/5 MISC said that, although the current levels of liftings in the liner container trade and freight and charter hire rates should hold for the first half of this year, long-term prospects are still uncertain. Draft additions 1997 lifting tape n. Criminology a kind of adhesive tape used for lifting fingerprints. ΘΚΠ society > communication > indication > marking > a mark > trace or vestige > [noun] > fingerprint > equipment used for lifting prints lifting tape1942 1942 B. C. Bridges Pract. Fingerprinting xiii. 258 With this type of lifting tape there is provided celluloid or acetate cover material to which the tape may be affixed after the latent impression has been lifted. 1942 B. C. Bridges Pract. Fingerprinting xiii. 258 The technique of using this transparent lifting tape is easy. 1983 J. F. Cowger Friction Ridge Skin iv. 87 After making the lift, lifting tape is adhered to lift cards. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1903; most recently modified version published online March 2019). liftingadj. /ˈlɪftɪŋ/ Etymology: < lift v. + -ing suffix². That lifts, in senses of the verb, spec. in lifting-bridge n. a bridge of which either a part or the whole may be drawn up at one end when needful. lifting-gate n. = lift n.² 15. lifting plough n. one which raises the soil it passes through. lifting-pump n. any pump other than a force-pump. lifting-sail n. a sail whose action tends to lift the bows out of the water. lifting-set n. ‘the series of pumps by which water is raised from the bottom of a mine by successive lifts’ (E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. 1875). Also, in Aeronautics, providing lift; lifting body n. a (wingless) spacecraft with a shape designed to produce lift, so that some aerodynamic control of its flight is possible within the atmosphere. lifting screw n. a rotor operating in a horizontal plane so as to provide lift for a flying machine (see also lifting n.). ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > action or motion of vessel > [adjective] > riding on the waves liftingc1400 the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > upward movement > raising > [adjective] > lifting lifting1686 uplifting1818 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 society > travel > air or space travel > a means of conveyance through the air > rotary wing aircraft > [noun] > parts of rotary wing aircraft > rotor ascensional screw1901 lifting screw1902 rotor1915 windmill1931 tilting rotor1940 tilt rotor1961 society > travel > air or space travel > specific movements or positions of aircraft > aerodynamic forces and concepts > [adjective] > lift or drag lift-drag1919 lifting1919 society > travel > air or space travel > a means of conveyance through the air > spacecraft > [noun] > spacecraft of specific shape lifting body1964 c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness l. 443 After harde dayez wern out an hundreth & fyfte, As þat lyftande lome [the ark] luged aboute. 1686 J. Dunton Lett. from New Eng. (1867) 8 Even the Parson himselfe..gave me a lifting hand. 1797 Encycl. Brit. IX. 17/2 Of lifting-pumps there are several sorts. 1839 R. S. Robinson Naut. Steam Engine Explained 65 On the top of the air bucket fits the lifting valve. 1851 Official Descriptive & Illustr. Catal. Great Exhib. IV. 1148 Swing, lifting, or rolling bridges are..in such cases indispensable. 1875 J. Lukin Carpentry & Joinery 135 These double-legged tables are very generally made with a rack to allow of their rising by the application of a lifting force. 1879 Scribner's Monthly Dec. 239/2 A subsoil or lifting plow which stirs and loosens the substratum without bringing it to the surface. 1882 G. S. Nares Seamanship (ed. 6) 205 The jib and flying-jib are..lifting sails. 1894 Daily News 19 June 6/5 The supremely interesting feature of this really great work are the lifting bascules. 1895–6 Cal. Univ. Nebraska 215 By its use the extensor or lifting muscles are developed. 1898 Daily News 16 Nov. 7/1 The mechanism of the lifting roadway is so perfect in its action. 1902 F. Walker Aërial Navigation v. 79 The lifting screws. 1908 Jrnl. Royal Soc. Arts 57 53/1 The Helicoptère, or lifting-screw flying machine. 1919 H. Shaw Text-bk. Aeronaut. ix. 111 In some machines it is arranged that the tail carries a portion of the load, when it is known as a ‘lifting’ tail. 1923 Daily Mail 12 Feb. 7 While aloft the pilot can change the action of his planes so that they cease to act as vertical lifting-screws and function like the surfaces of an aeroplane. 1935 P. W. F. Mills Elem. Pract. Flying i. 1 Aeroplanes..cannot fly backwards owing to their fixed thrust direction and the arrangement of their lifting surfaces. 1964 Britannica Bk. of Year 868/1 Lifting body, a wingless, somewhat bathtub-shaped vehicle for aerospace travel that combines some of the heat-handling capacity of a capsule with some of the maneuverability of a wingless aircraft. 1966 McGraw-Hill Encycl. Sci. & Technol. (rev. ed.) VI. 388/2 The disk loading [of a helicopter]..expresses the design gross weight as a function of the swept areas of the lifting rotor. 1969 K. Munson Pioneer Aircraft 1903–14 104/2 The Blériot III was also a floatplane, with annular lifting surfaces fore and aft. 1972 A. C. Kermode Mech. of Flight (ed. 8) xii. 390 These lifting bodies are but a step towards a shuttle service operating to and from a space station orbiting the earth. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1903; most recently modified version published online June 2018). < n.1362adj.c1400
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