What's the difference between clift and lift?

Clift


Definition:

  • (n.) A cliff.
  • (n.) A cleft of crack; a narrow opening.
  • (n.) The fork of the legs; the crotch.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Two years later, she insisted that the scarred and drug-addicted Clift be cast with her in Suddenly, Last Summer (1959), an adaptation of a Tennessee Williams play.
  • (2) They were to become close friends and, during the making of Raintree County in 1957, she was the first on the scene of Clift's car crash, pulling a dislodged tooth out of his throat to stop him choking.
  • (3) The "institution", still in her teens, in ravishing close-ups, was now driving Montgomery Clift to murder his pregnant girlfriend in George Stevens's A Place in the Sun.
  • (4) Born in Omaha, Nebraska - the state that produced Montgomery Clift, Henry Fonda and Fred Astaire - he was only 23 when he brought Stanley Kowalski to life in A Streetcar Named Desire in 1947.
  • (5) Recently in reproducing Matthew Baillie's classic atlas of morbid anatomy using an almost complete set of the original drawings of William Clift an attempt was made to give a modern diagnosis of all the conditions illustrated.
  • (6) Clift was just one of the adored figures who could not really stay with her.
  • (7) In 10 patients with arterial hypertension and left heart failure the hemodynamic effect of 14-hydroxy-3-beta-[4-O-methyl-alpha-L-rhamnopyranosyl)oxy]-14beta-bufa-4,20,22-trienolide (Ky 18, meproscillarin, Clift) was compared with placebo in a double-blind study.
  • (8) But thwarted love stories are the best, and at 18 Liz could look at Clift, the camera and us, and convey the magic words that inspired classic American cinema – "If only!"
  • (9) A study is presented of the main microcirculation values in comparison with systemic hemodynamics in patients with chronic circulatory insufficiency under the effect of complex therapy with dilanacin + corinfar and clift + corinfar.
  • (10) With a rate of inactivation of about 40% and a bioavailability of about 70% corresponding approximately to that of digoxin 14-hydroxy-3beta-[(4-O-methyl-alpha-L-rhamnopyranosyl)oxy]-14beta-bufa-4,20,22-trienolide (meproscillarin, Clift) is--according to our results--a new therapeutic possibility for cardiac decompensated patients, especially in the presence of renal failure.
  • (11) After all, to millions she had been the most beautiful woman on screen for a couple of decades, and when she was only 18, in A Place in the Sun, she had entered into one of movie's modest exquisite romantic auras, with her partner in that film, Montgomery Clift.
  • (12) Sticking with the very enjoyable Misfits analogy (a film eagle-eyed readers might have guessed was recently on TCM), to me, looking at people who have had Botox is an experience somewhat akin to watching Montgomery Clift after he was in the car crash that resulted in him needing heavy reconstructive surgery.
  • (13) The investigations on the metabolism of 14-Hydroxy-3beta-[(4-O-methyl-alpha-L-rhamnopyranosyl)oxy]-14beta-bufa-4,20,22-trienolide (meproscillarin, Clift) were performed in 5 healthy test persons as well as in 4 patients with biliary fistula, applying a single oral dose of 0.5 mg of 3H-meproscillarin.
  • (14) Labelling of 14-hydroxy-3beta-[4-O-methyl-alpha-L-rhamnopyranosyl)oxy]-14beta-bufa-4,20,22-trienolide (meproscillarin, Clift) by introduction of dueterium and tritium at the metabolically stable C-19 position is described.
  • (15) The final telephoto close-ups of her and Clift in their last embrace speak to the entire hope of movie romance.
  • (16) Starting from toxic concentrations of the new scilla glycoside 14-hydroxy-3beta-[(4-O-methyl-alpha-L-rhamnopyranosyl)-oxy]-14beta-bufa-4,20,22-trienolide (meproscillarin, Clift) 5 in vitro hemoperfusions with the hemoperfusion system Haemocol are described.
  • (17) It was to be investigated whether the elimination rate of 14-hydroxy-3beta-[(4-O-methyl-alpha-L-rhamnopyranosyl)oxy]-14beta-bufa-4,20,22-trienolide (meproscillarin, Clift) is influenced by the renal function after discontinuance of long-term application.
  • (18) Now, of course, the difference between Clift and the Botox posse is that Clift had to have the surgery because, by all accounts, his entire jaw was in the back of his face, which is a little different than fear of a smile line setting in.
  • (19) In a multicentre open therapeutic study 64 physicians provided 650 questionnaires of patients who had been treated with the new cardiac glycoside 14-Hydroxy-3beta-[(4-O-methyl-alpha-L-rhamnopyranosyl)oxy]-14beta-bufa-4,20,22-trienolide (meproscillarin, Clift) for more than 3 months; 647 questionnaires had been filled in completely and could be evaluated.
  • (20) Baillie wrote the first systematic textbook of morbid anatomy in the English (or any other) language, and commissioned a book of elegant and accurate illustrations by William Clift (1775-1849).

Lift


Definition:

  • (n.) The sky; the atmosphere; the firmament.
  • (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.
  • (v. t.) To raise, elevate, exalt, improve, in rank, condition, estimation, character, etc.; -- often with up.
  • (v. t.) To bear; to support.
  • (v. t.) To collect, as moneys due; to raise.
  • (v. t.) To steal; to carry off by theft (esp. cattle); as, to lift a drove of cattle.
  • (v. i.) To try to raise something; to exert the strength for raising or bearing.
  • (v. i.) To rise; to become or appear raised or elevated; as, the fog lifts; the land lifts to a ship approaching it.
  • (v. t.) To live by theft.
  • (n.) Act of lifting; also, that which is lifted.
  • (n.) The space or distance through which anything is lifted; as, a long lift.
  • (n.) Help; assistance, as by lifting; as, to give one a lift in a wagon.
  • (n.) That by means of which a person or thing lifts or is lifted
  • (n.) A hoisting machine; an elevator; a dumb waiter.
  • (n.) A handle.
  • (n.) An exercising machine.
  • (n.) A rise; a degree of elevation; as, the lift of a lock in canals.
  • (n.) A lift gate. See Lift gate, below.
  • (n.) A rope leading from the masthead to the extremity of a yard below; -- used for raising or supporting the end of the yard.
  • (n.) One of the steps of a cone pulley.
  • (n.) A layer of leather in the heel.
  • (n.) That portion of the vibration of a balance during which the impulse is given.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He still denied it and said he was giving the girl a lift.
  • (2) Ligaments played a very minor role in the lifts studied.
  • (3) Earlier this month, Khamenei insisted that all sanctions be lifted immediately on a deal being reached, a condition that the US State Department dismissed.
  • (4) The expression of genes for adenine phosphoribosyltransferase and of deo operon is regulated by rho dependent attenuators with attenuation being lifted incomplete medium.
  • (5) For example, Asda lifted the price of frozen pizza from £1.50 to £2 as a “two for £3” offer appeared – and dropped the price again when the offer concluded.
  • (6) These additional cues involved different sensations in effort of the perfomed movement – sliding heavy object vs. sliding light object (sS test), as well as different sensations in pattern of movement and joints - sliding vs. lifting of an object (SL test).
  • (7) Or perhaps the "mad cow"-fuelled beef war in the late 1990s, when France maintained its ban on British beef for three long years after the rest of the EU had lifted it, prompting the Sun to publish a special edition in French portraying then president Jacques Chirac as a worm.
  • (8) Hopes that the Queen's diamond jubilee and the £9bn spent on the Olympics would lift sales over the longer term have largely been dashed as growth slows and the outlook, though robust with a growing order book, remains subdued.
  • (9) The government has won a High Court order to prevent the partial lifting of a secrecy order affecting the proposed inquest into the death of former KGB spy Alexander Litvinenko.
  • (10) The US and its allies are balking at Iranian demands for all UN sanctions to be lifted at the start of a deal.
  • (11) The centrally generated ;effort' or direct voluntary command to motoneurones required to lift a weight was studied using a simple weight-matching task when the muscles lifting a reference weight were weakened.
  • (12) That is the bottom line.” Others described the need for a policy of containing Iran, especially with the lifting of economic sanctions.
  • (13) The Lib Dems have campaigned for a "mansion tax" on properties worth more than £2m, to pay for the poorest workers to be lifted out of the tax system.
  • (14) By simultaneously pushing the foot bar and pulling the hand bar, the monkey lifts a weight and triggers a microswitch which releases a banana-flavored food pellet into a well close to the animal's mouth.
  • (15) For the final three visible minutes, Lockett writhed, groaned, attempted to lift himself off the gurney and tried to speak, despite a doctor having declared him unconscious.
  • (16) The home fans were lifted by the sight of Billy Bonds, a legend in these parts, being presented with a lifetime achievement award before the kick-off and the former West Ham captain and manager probably would have enjoyed playing in Allardyce's combative midfield.
  • (17) Among the non-standard postures examined were: twisting while lifting or lowering, lifting and lowering from lying, sitting, kneeling, and squatting positions, and carrying loads under conditions of constricted ceiling heights.
  • (18) It seems to adequately provide the additional needed lift when nipple descent has been no more than 1.5 to 2 cm below the inframammary crease.
  • (19) "And let's be frank, we're not actually helping anyone by leaving the economic coast clear for others to provide the inward investment that often comes in from elsewhere and may represent tied aid or investment that won't help lift the poorest into employment," she said.
  • (20) People like Hugo forgot how truly miserable Paris had been for ordinary Parisians.” Out of a job and persona non grata in Paris, Haussmann spent six months in Italy to lift his spirits.

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