| adrift | (adjective) afloat on the surface of a body of water | - |
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| (adjective) aimlessly drifting | Synonyms: afloat, aimless, directionless, planless, rudderless, undirected |
| (adverb) off course, wandering aimlessly | - |
| (adverb) floating freely; not anchored | - |
| airlift | (noun) transportation of people or goods by air (especially when other means of access are unavailable) | Synonyms: lift |
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| (verb) fly people or goods to or from places not accessible by other means | Synonyms: lift |
| chairlift | (noun) a ski lift on which riders (skiers or sightseers) are seated and carried up or down a mountainside; seats are hung from an endless overhead cable | Synonyms: chair lift |
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| deadlift | (noun) a weight training exercise in which a loaded barbell is lifted off the ground to the hips, then lowered back to the ground | - |
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| downshift | (noun) a change to a lower gear in a car or bicycle | - |
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| (noun) a change from a financially rewarding but stressful career to a less well paid but more fulfilling one | - |
| drift | (noun) a horizontal (or nearly horizontal) passageway in a mine | Synonyms: gallery, heading |
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| (noun) the pervading meaning or tenor | Synonyms: purport |
| (noun) a general tendency to change (as of opinion) | Synonyms: movement, trend |
| (noun) a large mass of material that is heaped up by the wind or by water currents | - |
| (noun) a force that moves something along | Synonyms: impetus, impulsion |
| (noun) the gradual departure from an intended course due to external influences (as a ship or plane) | - |
| (noun) a process of linguistic change over a period of time | - |
| (verb) be piled up in banks or heaps by the force of wind or a current | - |
| (verb) be subject to fluctuation | - |
| (verb) drive slowly and far afield for grazing | - |
| (verb) move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment | Synonyms: cast, ramble, range, roam, roll, rove, stray, swan, tramp, vagabond, wander |
| (verb) be in motion due to some air or water current | Synonyms: be adrift, blow, float |
| (verb) wander from a direct course or at random | Synonyms: err, stray |
| (verb) move in an unhurried fashion | - |
| (verb) cause to be carried by a current | - |
| (verb) live unhurriedly, irresponsibly, or freely | Synonyms: freewheel |
| (verb) vary or move from a fixed point or course | - |
| facelift | (noun) 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 | Synonyms: cosmetic surgery, face lift, face lifting, lift, nip and tuck, rhytidectomy, rhytidoplasty |
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| (noun) a renovation that improves the outward appearance (as of a building) but usually does not involve major changes | Synonyms: face lift, face lifting |
| festschrift | (noun) a collection of writings published in honor of a scholar | - |
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| forklift | (noun) a small industrial vehicle with a power operated forked platform in front that can be inserted under loads to lift and move them | - |
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| gearshift | (noun) a mechanical device for engaging and disengaging gears | Synonyms: gear lever, gearstick, shifter |
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| gift | (noun) the act of giving | Synonyms: giving |
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| (noun) natural abilities or qualities | Synonyms: endowment, natural endowment, talent |
| (noun) something acquired without compensation | - |
| (verb) give as a present; make a gift of | Synonyms: give, present |
| (verb) give qualities or abilities to | Synonyms: empower, endow, endue, indue, invest |
| lift | (noun) the act of raising something | Synonyms: heave, raise |
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| (noun) 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 | Synonyms: cosmetic surgery, face lift, face lifting, facelift, nip and tuck, rhytidectomy, rhytidoplasty |
| (noun) the act of giving temporary assistance | - |
| (noun) a ride in a car | - |
| (noun) transportation of people or goods by air (especially when other means of access are unavailable) | Synonyms: airlift |
| (noun) 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 | Synonyms: elevator |
| (noun) a powered conveyance that carries skiers up a hill | Synonyms: ski lift, ski tow |
| (noun) one of the layers forming the heel of a shoe or boot | - |
| (noun) a device worn in a shoe or boot to make the wearer look taller or to correct a shortened leg | - |
| (noun) the event of something being raised upward | Synonyms: elevation, raising |
| (noun) a wave that lifts the surface of the water or ground | Synonyms: rise |
| (noun) the component of the aerodynamic forces acting on an airfoil that opposes gravity | Synonyms: aerodynamic lift |
| (verb) perform cosmetic surgery on someone's face | Synonyms: face-lift |
| (verb) remove from a surface | - |
| (verb) put an end to | Synonyms: raise |
| (verb) remove (hair) by scalping | - |
| (verb) rise upward, as from pressure or moisture | - |
| (verb) invigorate or heighten | Synonyms: raise |
| (verb) raise in rank or condition | Synonyms: elevate, raise |
| (verb) remove from a seedbed or from a nursery | - |
| (verb) take off or away by decreasing | - |
| (verb) cancel officially | Synonyms: annul, countermand, overturn, repeal, rescind, reverse, revoke, vacate |
| (verb) call to stop the hunt or to retire, as of hunting dogs | - |
| (verb) make audible | - |
| (verb) take hold of something and move it to a different location | - |
| (verb) raise or haul up with or as if with mechanical help | Synonyms: hoist, wind |
| (verb) take (root crops) out of the ground | - |
| (verb) fly people or goods to or from places not accessible by other means | Synonyms: airlift |
| (verb) raise from a lower to a higher position | Synonyms: bring up, elevate, get up, raise |
| (verb) move upwards | Synonyms: raise |
| (verb) move upward | Synonyms: arise, come up, go up, move up, rise, uprise |
| (verb) make off with belongings of others | Synonyms: abstract, cabbage, filch, hook, nobble, pilfer, pinch, purloin, snarf, sneak, swipe |
| (verb) take without referencing from someone else's writing or speech; of intellectual property | Synonyms: plagiarise, plagiarize |
| (verb) pay off (a mortgage) | - |
| (verb) take illegally | Synonyms: rustle |
| (verb) rise up | Synonyms: rear, rise |
| makeshift | (adjective) done or made using whatever is available | Synonyms: improvised, jury-rigged |
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| (noun) something contrived to meet an urgent need or emergency | Synonyms: make-do, stopgap |
| redshift | (noun) (astronomy) a shift in the spectra of very distant galaxies toward longer wavelengths (toward the red end of the spectrum); generally interpreted as evidence that the universe is expanding | Synonyms: red shift |
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| regift | (verb) give a present that one has received to someone else | - |
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| repulsorlift | (noun) a fictional anti-gravity device in the Star Wars Universe. | Synonyms: repulsor, repulsorlift engine |
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| resift | (verb) sift anew | - |
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| rift | (noun) a personal or social separation (as between opposing factions) | Synonyms: breach, break, falling out, rupture, severance |
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| (noun) a narrow fissure in rock | - |
| (noun) a gap between cloud masses | - |
| shift | (noun) the act of moving from one place to another | Synonyms: shifting |
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| (noun) the act of changing one thing or position for another | Synonyms: switch, switching |
| (noun) a loose-fitting dress hanging straight from the shoulders without a waist | Synonyms: chemise, sack |
| (noun) a woman's sleeveless undergarment | Synonyms: chemise, shimmy, slip, teddy |
| (noun) the key on the typewriter keyboard that shifts from lower-case letters to upper-case letters | Synonyms: shift key |
| (noun) an event in which something is displaced without rotation | Synonyms: displacement |
| (noun) a qualitative change | Synonyms: transformation, transmutation |
| (noun) a crew of workers who work for a specific period of time | - |
| (noun) (geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other | Synonyms: break, fault, faulting, fracture, geological fault |
| (noun) the time period during which you are at work | Synonyms: duty period, work shift |
| (verb) make a shift in or exchange of | Synonyms: change over, switch |
| (verb) move and exchange for another | - |
| (verb) lay aside, abandon, or leave for another | Synonyms: change, switch |
| (verb) move from one setting or context to another | - |
| (verb) change in quality | - |
| (verb) change gears | - |
| (verb) change phonetically as part of a systematic historical change | - |
| (verb) use a shift key on a keyboard | - |
| (verb) change place or direction | Synonyms: dislodge, reposition |
| (verb) move very slightly | Synonyms: agitate, budge, stir |
| (verb) move around | Synonyms: transfer |
| (verb) move abruptly | Synonyms: lurch, pitch |
| (verb) move sideways or in an unsteady way | Synonyms: careen, tilt, wobble |
| shoplift | (verb) steal in a store | - |
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| shrift | (noun) the act of being shriven | - |
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| sift | (verb) distinguish and separate out | Synonyms: sieve |
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| (verb) separate by passing through a sieve or other straining device to separate out coarser elements | Synonyms: sieve, strain |
| (verb) check and sort carefully | Synonyms: sieve |
| (verb) move as if through a sieve | - |
| snowdrift | (noun) a mass of snow heaped up by the wind | - |
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| spendthrift | (adjective) recklessly wasteful | Synonyms: extravagant, prodigal, profligate |
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| (noun) someone who spends money prodigally | Synonyms: scattergood, spend-all, spender |
| spindrift | (noun) spray blown up from the surface of the sea | Synonyms: spoondrift |
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| spoondrift | (noun) spray blown up from the surface of the sea | Synonyms: spindrift |
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| swift | (adjective) moving very fast | Synonyms: fleet |
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| (noun) a small bird that resembles a swallow and is noted for its rapid flight | - |
| (noun) common western lizard; seen on logs or rocks | Synonyms: blue-belly, Sceloporus occidentalis, western fence lizard |
| thrift | (noun) extreme care in spending money; reluctance to spend money unnecessarily | Synonyms: parsimoniousness, parsimony, penny-pinching |
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| (noun) any of numerous sun-loving low-growing evergreens of the genus Armeria having round heads of pink or white flowers | - |
| uplift | (noun) a brassiere that lifts and supports the breasts | - |
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| (noun) (geology) a rise of land to a higher elevation (as in the process of mountain building) | Synonyms: upheaval, upthrow, upthrust |
| (verb) fill with high spirits; fill with optimism | Synonyms: elate, intoxicate, lift up, pick up |
| (verb) lift up or elevate | - |
| (verb) lift up from the earth, as by geologic forces | - |
| weightlift | (noun) bodybuilding by exercise that involves lifting weights | Synonyms: weightlifting |
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| (verb) lift weights | Synonyms: press, weight-lift |