(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.
Renounce
Definition:
(v. t.) To declare against; to reject or decline formally; to refuse to own or acknowledge as belonging to one; to disclaim; as, to renounce a title to land or to a throne.
(v. t.) To cast off or reject deliberately; to disown; to dismiss; to forswear.
(v. t.) To disclaim having a card of (the suit led) by playing a card of another suit.
(v. i.) To make renunciation.
(v. i.) To decline formally, as an executor or a person entitled to letters of administration, to take out probate or letters.
(n.) Act of renouncing.
Example Sentences:
(1) It was a waspish summary in which he noted that, while Pope Francis "may have renounced his own infallibility", Margaret Thatcher never did.
(2) He renounced his Australian citizenship , returned his passport and Medicare card to the Australian Commonwealth, and sent his driver’s licence back to the chief minister of the Australian Capital Territory, where he then lived.
(3) Despite having taken vows renouncing concern for physical pain or comfort, respondents differed markedly in their attitudes toward pain and their rationale for utilizing medical treatment.
(4) The man who renounced Australia Read more It was “not so much a defence to the charges [but] a negotiating point or olive branch” held out to the commonwealth to instigate discussion towards a treaty and formal consent for its occupation of the land, he said.
(5) After World War II, he renounced his divinity and became the symbol of both the state and the unity of the people.
(6) The strategic alliance between the stances is continuing and will continue.” Responding to the remarks in the Atlantic late on Tuesday night, Israel’s far-right economics minister, Naftali Bennett, used his Facebook page to call for Washington to renounce the comments: “If what was written [in The Atlantic] is true, then it appears the current administration plans to throw Israel under the bus.
(7) Payouts require claimants to renounce their right to sue the church and state authorities.
(8) Blaming strict gender segregation, the author points out that since desire is natural to humankind, its suppression is bound to make it resurface in a different guise: "For example, monks and those who renounce worldly pleasures quite often tend to be fat, with big bellies.
(9) Later, prisoners suffered even worse mistreatment in an attempt to force them to renounce their allegiance to the insurgency and to obey commands.
(10) In 1963, when Tony Benn won his fight to renounce his inherited peerage, he was rapidly followed by Quintin Hogg and Alec Douglas-Home, who were prominent in the Lords but understood they needed to face the people to get to the very top, as Douglas-Home went on to do.
(11) Daniel Radcliffe: renounced his support for Lib Dems.
(12) "I was then offered £5,000 to renounce the right of my wife to succeed me in the tenancy, which I did accept.
(13) If a Muslim candidate did not renounce such aspects of his or her faith, Carson said, “Why in fact would you take that chance?” Referring to criticism of his remark last weekend to NBC that he “would not advocate” a Muslim becoming president, Carson said: “I said anybody, doesn’t matter what their religious background, if they accept American values and principles and are willing to subjugate their religious beliefs to our constitution, I have no problem with them.” Article VI of the US constitution states: “No religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States.” The first amendment to the constitution says: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof …” Carson is a member of the Seventh Day Adventist Church.
(14) 48.5% of respondents share the misperception that transmission from mother to fetus always happens, and 70% think that women who are HIV carriers should renounce pregnancy: willingness to support mandatory screening for pregnant women is significantly higher among individuals who share these two beliefs.
(15) Abbas is under considerable pressure from Israel, the US and Britain in particular to renounce the option for the Palestinian Authority to accede to the ICC.
(16) Reforms saw the MP Zac Goldsmith and peer Swraj Paul renounce their non-dom status to hold on to their seats.
(17) There is a hint he will sign up with Pasok, but he has already told the two main parties they must renounce all their previous negotiations in Brussels before he will sit down with them.
(18) March 1995 The preacher issues a fatwa saying it is justified to both kill Muslims who renounce their faith and kill their families.
(19) I wouldn’t hesitate in renouncing my Britishness , it doesn’t bother me in the slightest.
(20) Experiences from history and presence make it clear that the sensitiveness for these problems must be a never renounced and a constant concern of all anthropologists and human genetists.