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noun : LIFTS
Source:WordNet 3.1
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1. (
) the act of giving temporary assistance ;
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2. (
) the component of the aerodynamic forces acting on an airfoil that opposes gravity ;
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3. (
) the event of something being raised upward; "an elevation of the temperature in the afternoon"; "a raising of the land resulting from volcanic activity" ;
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5. (
) a powered conveyance that carries skiers up a hill ;
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6. (
) a device worn in a shoe or boot to make the wearer look taller or to correct a shortened leg ;
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7. (
) one of the layers forming the heel of a shoe or boot ;
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8. (
) 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 ;
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9. (
- face_lift ,
- facelift ,
- lift ,
- face_lifting ,
- cosmetic_surgery ,
- rhytidectomy ,
- rhytidoplasty ,
- nip_and_tuck
) 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" ;
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11. (
) a ride in a car; "he gave me a lift home" ;
verb : LIFTS
Source:WordNet 3.1
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2. (
) take hold of something and move it to a different location; "lift the box onto the table" ;
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5. (
) make audible; "He lifted a war whoop" ;
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6. (
) cancel officially; "He revoked the ban on smoking"; "lift an embargo"; "vacate a death sentence" ;
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11. (
) take off or away by decreasing; "lift the pressure" ;
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13. (
) pay off (a mortgage) ;
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14. (
) take without referencing from someone else's writing or speech; of intellectual property ;
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17. (
) take (root crops) out of the ground; "lift potatoes" ;
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18. (
) call to stop the hunt or to retire, as of hunting dogs ;
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19. (
) rise upward, as from pressure or moisture; "The floor is lifting slowly" ;
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21. (
) remove (hair) by scalping ;
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22. (
) remove from a seedbed or from a nursery; "lift the tulip bulbs" ;
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23. (
) remove from a surface; "the detective carefully lifted some fingerprints from the table" ;
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24. (
) perform cosmetic surgery on someone's face ;
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