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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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 |
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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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 |
repulsorlift | (noun) a fictional anti-gravity device in the Star Wars Universe. | Synonyms: repulsor, repulsorlift engine |
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shoplift | (verb) steal in a store | - |
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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 |