Usually means: Force opposing gravity through air.
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General (32 matching dictionaries)
  1. lift: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. lift: Merriam-Webster
  3. lift, lift: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. lift: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. lift: Collins English Dictionary
  6. lift: Vocabulary.com
  7. Lift, lift: Wordnik
  8. lift: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Lift: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  10. lift: Wiktionary
  11. lift: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  12. lift: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  13. lift: Infoplease Dictionary
  14. lift: Dictionary.com
  15. lift (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  16. lift: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  17. LIFT (nonprofit), Lift (Audio Adrenaline album), Lift (Dave Gunning album), Lift (Love and Rockets album), Lift (Poets of the Fall song), Lift (Radiohead song), Lift (Shannon Noll album), Lift (Shannon Noll song), Lift (Sister Hazel album), Lift (band), Lift (data mining), Lift (disambiguation), Lift (elevator), Lift (fluid mechanics), Lift (force), Lift (mathematics), Lift (physics), Lift (soaring), Lift (soft drink), Lift (web framework), Lift, The Lift: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  18. Lift: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  19. lift: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  20. lift: Rhymezone
  21. Lift (m), lift, lift (de): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  22. lift: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  23. LIFT: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  24. Lift (give someone a lift), Lift: Britih-American Dictionary
  25. LIFT: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  26. Lift: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  27. lift: FreeDictionary.org
  28. lift: Mnemonic Dictionary
  29. lift: TheFreeDictionary.com
  30. lift: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Technical Glossary of Theatre Terms (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)

Business (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. lift: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  3. Travel Industry Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  5. Lift: Bloomberg Financial Glossary
  6. Lift: Energy Dictionary
  7. Lift (album), Lift (disambiguation), lift: Legal dictionary
  8. Lift (album), Lift (disambiguation), Lift: Financial dictionary
  9. Glossary of Trade and Shipping Terms (No longer online)
  10. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Lift (album), Lift (disambiguation), Lift (elevator), Lift (force), lift: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. lift: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Lift (elevator), lift: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Lift: Bar-Nones Dictionary of Drinking
  2. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. LIFT: Acronym Finder
  4. lift: Magic or Madness
  5. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  6. lift: Idioms

Science (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. From Stargazers to Starships Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Lift: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  3. Lift: Eric Weisstein's World of Physics
  4. lift, lift: PlanetMath Encyclopedia

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. lift, lift: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Lift, The Lift: Urban Dictionary

Sports (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Lift: Backgammon
  2. Lift: Croquet
  3. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  4. Lift: Sports Definitions

Tech (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. Book Binding (No longer online)
  2. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  3. Glossary of Coal Mining Terms (No longer online)
  4. Efficient Windows (No longer online)
  5. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  6. lift: Chapters in the Sky
  7. A Gliding Glossary (No longer online)
  8. Glossary of Energy Terms (No longer online)
  9. Dictionary for Avionics (No longer online)
  10. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

(Note: See liftable as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive, intransitive) To raise or rise.
verb:  (transitive, slang) To steal.
verb:  (transitive, slang) To source directly without acknowledgement; to plagiarise.
verb:  (transitive, slang) To arrest (a person).
verb:  (transitive) To remove (a ban, restriction, etc.).
verb:  (transitive) To alleviate, to lighten (pressure, tension, stress, etc.)
verb:  (transitive) to cause to move upwards.
verb:  (informal, intransitive) To lift weights; to weight-lift.
verb:  To try to raise something; to exert the strength for raising or bearing.
verb:  To elevate or improve in rank, condition, etc.; often with up.
verb:  (obsolete) To bear; to support.
verb:  To collect, as moneys due; to raise.
verb:  (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.18)
verb:  (programming) To transform (a function) into a corresponding function in a different context.
verb:  (finance) To buy a security or other asset previously offered for sale.
verb:  (hunting, transitive) To take (hounds) off the existing scent and move them to another spot.
noun:  An act of lifting or raising.
noun:  The act of transporting someone in a vehicle; a ride; a trip.
noun:  (UK, Australia and New Zealand, puristic elsewhere) Mechanical device for vertically transporting goods or people between floors in a building.
noun:  An upward force; especially, the force (generated by wings, rotary wings, or airfoils) that keeps aircraft aloft.
noun:  (measurement) The difference in elevation between the upper pool and lower pool of a waterway, separated by lock.
noun:  (historical slang) A thief.
noun:  (dance) The lifting of a dance partner into the air.
noun:  Permanent construction with a built-in platform that is lifted vertically.
noun:  (figurative) An improvement in mood.
noun:  The amount or weight to be lifted.
noun:  The space or distance through which anything is lifted.
noun:  A rise; a degree of elevation.
noun:  A liftgate.
noun:  (nautical) A rope leading from the masthead to the extremity of a yard below, and used for raising or supporting the end of the yard.
noun:  (engineering) One of the steps of a cone pulley.
noun:  (shoemaking) A layer of leather in the heel of a shoe.
noun:  (horology) That portion of the vibration of a balance during which the impulse is given.
noun:  (category theory) A morphism which some given morphism factors through; i.e. given a pair of morphisms f:X→Y and g:Z→Y, a morphism h such that f=g∘h. (In this case h is said to be a lift of f via Z or via g).
noun:  (UK dialectal, chiefly Scotland) Air.
noun:  (UK dialectal, chiefly Scotland) The sky; the heavens; firmament; atmosphere.

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