lift

To raise or rise.ambitransitive

• The fog eventually lifted, leaving the streets clear.
• You never lift a finger to help me!

To raise or rise.; To cause to move upwards.ambitransitivetransitive

• Graham secured victory with five minutes left, coolly lifting the ball over Asmir Begovic.

To steal.slangtransitive

• Kamal is out with twenty men to raise the Border side, And he has lifted the Colonel's mare that is the Colonel's pride.

To source directly without acknowledgement; to plagiarise.slangtransitive

• Based on a similarity across a range of Anglo-Indian entries in these three dictionaries, it appears that (along with other lexis) Barrère and Leland (1898) copied this entry from Hotten (1864), who had in turn lifted it directly from Stocq

To arrest (a person).slangtransitive

• Maybe the police lifted him and he's in Castlereagh [Interrogation Centre] because he'd been lifted three or four times previously and took to Castlereagh. They used to come in and raid the house and take him away.

To remove (a ban, restriction, etc.).transitive

To alleviate, to lighten (pressure, tension, stress, etc.)transitive

• The Gunners boss has been heavily criticised for his side's poor start to the Premier League season but this result helps lift the pressure.

To disperse, to break up.Scotlandespeciallyintransitive

• About three o'clock in the mornin', the company began to lift, and the room to get thinner and thinner.
• But Miss Macnee had one important move in reserve. She saw the company was about to 'lift,' as she was pleased to term it, and this move must be made before they separated.

To lift weights; to weight-lift.informalintransitive

• She lifts twice a week at the gym.

To try to raise something; to exert the strength for raising or bearing.

• strained by lifting at a weight too heavy

An act of lifting or raising.countableuncountable

The act of transporting someone in a vehicle; a ride; a trip.countableuncountable

• He gave me a lift to the bus station.

A mechanical device for vertically transporting goods or people between floors in a building.AustraliaIndiaNew-Zealand

• Take the lift to the fourth floor.

A mechanical device for raising vehicles for service, so that it is easier for a mechanic to get beneath them.countableuncountable

An upward force; especially, the force (generated by wings, rotary wings, or airfoils) that keeps aircraft aloft.countableuncountable

Any technique for lifting weights.countableuncountable

• This is actually an old-school circus lift—the sort of maneuver you imagine guys with twirly mustaches performing using cartoony barbells.

The difference in elevation between the upper pool and lower pool of a waterway, separated by lock.countableuncountable

A thief.countablehistoricalslang

• The lift came into the shop dressed like a country gentleman, but was careful not to have a cloak about him, so that the tradesman could see he had no opportunity to conceal any goods about his person.

The lifting of a dance partner into the air.countableuncountable

Permanent construction with a built-in platform that is lifted vertically.countableuncountable

Air.ScotlandUKdialectal

The sky; the heavens; firmament; atmosphere.ScotlandUKdialectal

• No, no, Leddy! the sun maun be up in the lift whan I venture to her den.