Definitions for the word "lift" from multiple English dictionaries.
1. n.
The sky; the atmosphere; the firmament.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
2. v. t.
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.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
3. v. t.
To raise, elevate, exalt, improve, in rank, condition, estimation, character, etc.; -- often with up.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
4. v. t.
To bear; to support.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
5. v. t.
To collect, as moneys due; to raise.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
6. v. t.
To steal; to carry off by theft (esp. cattle); as, to lift a drove of cattle.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
7. v. i.
To try to raise something; to exert the strength for raising or bearing.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
8. v. i.
To rise; to become or appear raised or elevated; as, the fog lifts; the land lifts to a ship approaching it.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
9. v. t.
To live by theft.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
10. n.
Act of lifting; also, that which is lifted.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
11. n.
The space or distance through which anything is lifted; as, a long lift.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
12. n.
Help; assistance, as by lifting; as, to give one a lift in a wagon.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
13. n.
That by means of which a person or thing lifts or is lifted
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
14. n.
A hoisting machine; an elevator; a dumb waiter.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
15. n.
A handle.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
16. n.
An exercising machine.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
17. n.
A rise; a degree of elevation; as, the lift of a lock in canals.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
18. n.
A lift gate. See Lift gate, below.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
19. n.
A rope leading from the masthead to the extremity of a yard below; -- used for raising or supporting the end of the yard.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
20. n.
One of the steps of a cone pulley.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
21. n.
A layer of leather in the heel.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
22. n.
That portion of the vibration of a balance during which the impulse is given.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
23. v.
1 (often foll. By up, off, out, etc.) Raise or remove to a higher position. 2 go up; be raised; yield to an upward force. 3 give an upward direction to (the eyes or face). 4 elevate to a higher plane of thought or feeling. 5 (of fog etc.) Rise, disperse. 6 remove (a barrier or restriction). 7 transport (supplies, troops, etc.) By air. 8 colloq. A steal. B plagiarize (a passage of writing etc.). 9 dig up (esp. Potatoes etc.). n. 1 lifting or being lifted. 2 ride in another person''s vehicle (gave them a lift).
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884
24. slang
to steal, pick pockets; “there’s a clock been LIFTED,” said when
a watch has been stolen. The word is as old as the Border forays, and is
used by Shakspeare. SHOPLIFTER is a recognised term. _Old Gothic_,
LLIFAN, to steal; _Lower Rhenish_, LÖFTEN.
Source: The Slang Dictionary, 1864
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