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English - English Dict (Wordnet)
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Noun - the act of raising something
- he responded with a lift of his eyebrow
- fireman learn several different raises for getting ladders up
- transportation of people or goods by air (especially when other means of access are unavailable)
- plastic surgery to remove wrinkles and other signs of aging from your face; an incision is made near the hair line and skin is pulled back and excess tissue is excised
- some actresses have more than one face lift
- lifting device consisting of a platform or cage that is raised and lowered mechanically in a vertical shaft in order to move people from one floor to another in a building
- one of the layers forming the heel of a shoe or boot
- a device worn in a shoe or boot to make the wearer look taller or to correct a shortened leg
- a powered conveyance that carries skiers up a hill
- a wave that lifts the surface of the water or ground
- the event of something being raised upward
- an elevation of the temperature in the afternoon
- a raising of the land resulting from volcanic activity
- the component of the aerodynamic forces acting on an airfoil that opposes gravity
- the act of giving temporary assistance
Verb - perform cosmetic surgery on someone's face
- remove from a surface
- the detective carefully lifted some fingerprints from the table
- remove from a seedbed or from a nursery
- remove (hair) by scalping
- rise upward, as from pressure or moisture
- The floor is lifting slowly
- call to stop the hunt or to retire, as of hunting dogs
- take (root crops) out of the ground
- fly people or goods to or from places not accessible by other means
- Food is airlifted into Bosnia
- take without referencing from someone else's writing or speech; of intellectual property
- rise up
- The building rose before them
- take off or away by decreasing
- raise in rank or condition
- The new law lifted many people from poverty
- raise or haul up with or as if with mechanical help
- hoist the bicycle onto the roof of the car
- make off with belongings of others
- cancel officially
- He revoked the ban on smoking
- move upward
- The smoke arose from the forest fire
- The mist uprose from the meadows
- take hold of something and move it to a different location
- lift the box onto the table
- raise from a lower to a higher position
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