One who, or that which, raises or lifts up anything.
A mechanical contrivance, usually an endless belt or chain with a series of scoops or buckets, for transferring grain to an upper loft for storage.
A cage or platform (called an elevator car) and the hoisting machinery in a hotel, warehouse, mine, etc., for conveying persons, goods, etc., to or from different floors or levels; - called in England a lift; the cage or platform itself.
A building for elevating, storing, and discharging, grain.
A muscle which serves to raise a part of the body, as the leg or the eye.
An instrument for raising a depressed portion of a bone.
A movable plane or group of planes used to control the altitude or fore-and-aft poise or inclination of an airship or flying machine.
The sky; the atmosphere; the firmament.
Act of lifting; also, that which is lifted.
The space or distance through which anything is lifted; as, a long lift.
Help; assistance, as by lifting.
That by means of which a person or thing lifts or is lifted
A rise; a degree of elevation; as, the lift of a lock in canals.
A lift gate. See Lift gate, below.
A rope leading from the masthead to the extremity of a yard below; - used for raising or supporting the end of the yard.
One of the steps of a cone pulley.
A layer of leather in the heel.
That portion of the vibration of a balance during which the impulse is given.
A brightening of the spirits; encouragement; as, the campaign workers got a lift from the President's endorsement.
To move in a direction opposite to that of gravitation; to raise; to elevate; to bring up from a lower place to a higher; to upheave; sometimes implying a continued support or holding in the higher place; - said of material things; as, to lift the foot or the hand; to lift a chair or a burden.
To raise, elevate, exalt, improve, in rank, condition, estimation, character, etc.; - often with up.
To bear; to support.
To collect, as moneys due; to raise.
To steal; to carry off by theft (esp. cattle); as, to lift a drove of cattle.
To try to raise something; to exert the strength for raising or bearing.
To rise; to become or appear raised or elevated; as, the fog lifts; the land lifts to a ship approaching it.
To steal; also, to live by theft.
