(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.
Masthead
Definition:
(n.) The top or head of a mast; the part of a mast above the hounds.
(v. t.) To cause to go to the masthead as a punishment.
Example Sentences:
(1) It could be a melancholic experience, reflecting the state of the left in general – clipping off the mastheads at the end of the week of all the unsold copies of Weekly Worker , International Communist Current and Lalkar , making odd smelling vegan drinks for the older members of the co-op, ringing up a number left by someone who'd ordered Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus to tell them their book had arrived and finding that it had been ordered by a person now deceased.
(2) The title will simply be called the Sun, with an identical masthead to the daily, and insiders have been at pains to make it clear that the newspaper is not a "Sun on Sunday" – but instead simply a Sunday edition of the newspaper that will have some "specialist staff" but without its own editor.
(3) The only News Corp heritage masthead to rank in the top 10 is the Herald Sun, although news.com.au is No.
(4) The continued sniping between Rinehart and the board comes after three weeks of major upheavals at Fairfax, during which the company announced it was cutting 1,900 jobs, converting its two flagship mastheads from broadsheets to tabloids, and closing its two main printing presses.
(5) I have been increasingly uncomfortable with the “drawbridges” rhetoric on immigration of the far right, and was horrified to see similar suggestions on leaflets under Labour party mastheads.
(6) Many quoted Evelyn Beatrice Hall’s expression of Voltaire’s beliefs: “I do not agree with what you have to say, but I’ll defend to the death your right to say it.’’ When the Charlie Hebdo website , which was down for much of the day, came back online it carried the phrase Je Suis Charlie in bold letters, with Charlie written in the font of the publication’s masthead.
(7) A final question mark as to that goal perhaps comes from the diversity of otherwise of the site’s masthead.
(8) The newspaper costs 50p and the masthead describes it as “The newspaper that supports an independent Scotland”.
(9) However, Fairfax Media and some News Corp mastheads do not generally link to other news sources, while the Daily Mail and Guardian Australia do.
(10) DMA will be contacting News Corp after discovering repeated examples of stories and pictures being taken from MailOnline in recent weeks, without proper attribution or internet linking.” A News Corp Australia spokesman said: "We stand by the fact that we believe the Daily Mail Australia is breaching our copyright by lifting substantial slabs of original content from a large number of articles from our mastheads."
(11) The company's Australian mastheads include The Australian, the Herald Sun and Daily Telegraph.
(12) The working title on last weekend's dummy was "Sunday" and broke with the conventional "redtop" format for popular tabloids with a yellow and white masthead.
(13) A News Corp spokesman said: "We have taken this action because we believe the Daily Mail Australia is breaching our copyright by lifting substantial slabs of original content from a large number of articles from our mastheads."
(14) To run all this he has established a brand management business, employing dozens of people: a TV production company through which he controls both the product and the fees, a production line for the books, a collection of branded foods and cooking implements, the Jamie's Italian brand of mid-market restaurants, even a magazine with his name on the masthead, à la Oprah.
(15) The program has demonstrably failed to apply the same ‘recognised standards of objective journalism’ to which it is bound by statute and which it expects of the media each week.” In the interview, Mitchell was as open as he has ever been about the newspaper’s financial status, conceding that the masthead was not profitable and had not been so since 2008.
(16) By having our journalists and contributors feature with prominence in our campaign and [TV commercials], we are effectively communicating the core of what we offer readers.” A News Corp Australia spokesman told Guardian Australia: “Among other things, the campaign highlights that our mastheads deliver outstanding local news coverage.
(17) Cleveland was founded in 1796 by General Moses Cleaveland; the spelling changed in 1831 when the “a” was dropped to fit the city’s name on a newspaper masthead.
(18) At the heart of the changes, which will see the return of "London" to the paper's masthead, is a change of tone that will emphasise the positive and move away from what Greig and, he says, readers saw as a relentlessly negative tone.
(19) The letter sent to retailers showing The National’s masthead.
(20) At First Look, behind-the-scenes Laura Poitras is one of two main female names on a virtual masthead that just added John Cook from Gawker ( to run Greenwald’s magazine ) to join Matt Taibbi of Rolling Stone ( to lead his own ).