Definition of "lift" in Anglais

verb

1. (ambitransitive) To raise or rise.

   • The fog eventually lifted, leaving the streets clear.
   • You never lift a finger to help me!
   • c. 1490, Of Penance and Confession be master Jhon Yrlandː Liftand (lifting) thy hands and thy eyen to Heaven.

2. (transitive, slang) To steal.

3. (transitive, slang) To source directly without acknowledgement; to plagiarise.

4. (transitive, slang) To arrest (a person).

5. (transitive) To remove (a ban, restriction, etc.).

6. (transitive) To alleviate, to lighten (pressure, tension, stress, etc.)

7. (intransitive, especially Scotland) To disperse, to break up.

8. (informal, intransitive) To lift weights; to weight-lift.

   • She lifts twice a week at the gym.

9. To try to raise something; to exert the strength for raising or bearing.

10. To elevate or improve in rank, condition, etc.; often with up.

11. (obsolete) To bear; to support.

12. To collect, as moneys due; to raise.

13. (category theory, transitive) Given morphisms f and g with the same target: To produce a morphism which the given morphism factors through (i.e. a morphism h such that f=g∘h; cf. lift n.etymology 1, 18)

14. (finance) To buy a security or other asset previously offered for sale.

15. (hunting, transitive) To take (hounds) off the existing scent and move them to another spot.

noun

1. An act of lifting or raising.

2. The act of transporting someone in a vehicle; a ride; a trip.

   • He gave me a lift to the bus station.

3. (UK, Australia, New Zealand, India, puristic elsewhere) Mechanical device for vertically transporting goods or people between floors in a building.

   • Take the lift to the fourth floor.

4. An upward force; especially, the force (generated by wings, rotary wings, or airfoils) that keeps aircraft aloft.

5. (measurement) The difference in elevation between the upper pool and lower pool of a waterway, separated by lock.

6. (historical slang) A thief.

7. (dance) The lifting of a dance partner into the air.

8. Permanent construction with a built-in platform that is lifted vertically.

9. (figurative) An improvement in mood.

10. The amount or weight to be lifted.

    • What's the maximum lift of this crane?