different between heartening vs lifting

English

Adjective

heartening (comparative more heartening, superlative most heartening)

1. Cheerfully encouraging.

   Antonym: disheartening

Translations

Verb

heartening

1. present participle of hearten

Anagrams

• earthening

English

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /?l?ft.??/

Noun

lifting (countable and uncountable, plural liftings)

1. The action or process by which something is lifted; elevation
   • 1946, Eugene E. Thomas, Brotherhood of Mt. Shasta

     For some moments he stood there contemplating the little fellows as they went about their work in their business-like way, taking no notice of his presence other than the liftings of their heads now and then, as if to ascertain if he were still there.

2. (sports) weightlifting; a form of exercise in which weights are lifted

   Synonym: weightlifting

   • 2008, Lou Schuler, "Foreward", in Nate Green, Built for Show, page xi

     When I started lifting in 1970, I was the skinniest thirteen-year-old I knew.

3. (medicine) plastic surgery for tightening facial tissues and improving the facial appearance

   Synonym: facelift

4. Theft.
   • 1836, Tait's Edinburgh Magazine (volume 3, page 426)

     It was then as much the scene of continual spreaths, liftings, reavings, and herriments, as the Border country itself.

5. (mathematics) A certain operation on a measure space; see lifting theory.

Derived terms

• tracklifting
• (computing): type lifting

Translations

Verb

lifting

1. present participle of lift

References

• lifting on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• fliting

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English lifting.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lif.ti?/

Noun

lifting m (plural liftings)

1. facelift

   Synonym: lifting de visage

Further reading

• “lifting” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Irish

Etymology

From Middle Irish lipting, from Old Norse lypting (compare Norwegian Nynorsk lyfting).

Noun

lifting f (genitive singular liftinge, nominative plural liftingí)

1. (nautical, literary) taffrail

   Synonyms: rancás, teafrail

Declension

Further reading

• "lifting" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “lipting”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English.

Noun

lifting m (invariable)

1. (surgery) face-lift, lifting

Polish

Etymology

From English lifting.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?l?if.tink/

Noun

lifting m inan

1. facelift (plastic surgery to the face)

Declension

Further reading

• lifting in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• lifting in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from English.

Noun

lifting m (plural liftings)

1. lifting, facelift