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lift
English
Pronunciation
- enPR: l?ft, IPA(key): /l?ft/
- Rhymes: -?ft
Etymology 1
From Middle English liften, lyften, from Old Norse lypta (“to lift, air”, literally “to raise in the air”), from Proto-Germanic *luftijan? (“to raise in the air”), related to *luftuz (“roof, air”), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *lewp- (“to peel, break off, damage”) or from a root meaning roof (see *luftuz). Cognate with Danish and Norwegian Bokmål løfte (“to lift”), Norwegian Nynorsk and Swedish lyfta (“to lift”), German lüften (“to air, lift”), Old English lyft (“air”). See above. 1851 for the noun sense "a mechanical device for vertical transport".
(To steal): For this sense Cleasby suggests perhaps a relation to the root of Gothic ???????????????????????????? (hliftus) "thief", cognate with Latin cleptus and Greek ?????? (klépt?))
Verb
lift (third-person singular simple present lifts, present participle lifting, simple past lifted or (rare, regional, obsolete) lift, past participle lifted or (rare, regional, obsolete) lift or (obsolete) yleft)
- (transitive, intransitive) To raise or rise.
- c1490, Of Penance and Confession be master Jhon Yrland?
- Liftand (lifting) thy hands and thy eyen to Heaven.
- 1900, Charles W. Chesnutt, The House Behind the Cedars, Chapter I,
- Their walk had continued not more than ten minutes when they crossed a creek by a wooden bridge and came to a row of mean houses standing flush with the street. At the door of one, an old black woman had stooped to lift a large basket, piled high with laundered clothes.
- c1490, Of Penance and Confession be master Jhon Yrland?
- (transitive, slang) To steal.
- 1919, Rudyard Kipling, The Ballad of East and West
- Kamal is out with twenty men to raise the Border side,
And he has lifted the Colonel's mare that is the Colonel's pride.
- Kamal is out with twenty men to raise the Border side,
- 1919, Rudyard Kipling, The Ballad of East and West
- (transitive, slang) To source directly without acknowledgement; to plagiarise.
- (transitive, slang) To arrest (a person).
- 2000, Marie Smyth, Marie-Therese Fay, Personal Accounts From Northern Ireland's Troubles
- Maybe the police lifted him and he's in Castlereagh [Interrogation Centre] because he'd been lifted three or four times previously and took to Castlereagh. They used to come in and raid the house and take him away.
- 2000, Marie Smyth, Marie-Therese Fay, Personal Accounts From Northern Ireland's Troubles
- (transitive) To remove (a ban, restriction, etc.).
- (transitive) To alleviate, to lighten (pressure, tension, stress, etc.)
- (transitive) to cause to move upwards.
- (informal, intransitive) To lift weights; to weight-lift.
- To try to raise something; to exert the strength for raising or bearing.
- strained by lifting at a weight too heavy
- To elevate or improve in rank, condition, etc.; often with up.
- The Roman virtues lift up mortal man.
- being lifted up with pride
- (obsolete) To bear; to support.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Edmund Spenser to this entry?)
- To collect, as moneys due; to raise.
- (programming) To transform (a function) into a corresponding function in a different context.
- (finance) To buy a security or other asset previously offered for sale.
- (hunting, transitive) To take (hounds) off the existing scent and move them to another spot.
- 1885, Lina Chaworth Musters, Book of Hunting Songs and Sport (page 144)
- I lifted the hounds (hoping to catch the leading ones there) to the far side of Hallaton Thorns.
- 1885, Lina Chaworth Musters, Book of Hunting Songs and Sport (page 144)
Usage notes
Lift also has an obsolete form liftand for the present participle. The strong forms were common until the 17th century in writing and still survive in speech in a few rural dialects.
Hyponyms
- airlift
Derived terms
- airlifted
- lift-off
- lifting
Translations
References
- The Dictionary of the Scots Language
Noun
lift (countable and uncountable, plural lifts)
- An act of lifting or raising.
- The act of transporting someone in a vehicle; a ride; a trip.
- He gave me a lift to the bus station.
- (Britain, Australia, New Zealand) Mechanical device for vertically transporting goods or people between floors in a building; an elevator.
- An upward force, such as the force that keeps aircraft aloft.
- (measurement) The difference in elevation between the upper pool and lower pool of a waterway, separated by lock.
- (historical slang) A thief.
- 1977, Gãmini Salgãdo, The Elizabethan Underworld, Folio Society 2006, page 32:
- The lift came into the shop dressed like a country gentleman, but was careful not to have a cloak about him, so that the tradesman could see he had no opportunity to conceal any goods about his person.
- 1977, Gãmini Salgãdo, The Elizabethan Underworld, Folio Society 2006, page 32:
- (dance) The lifting of a dance partner into the air.
- Permanent construction with a built-in platform that is lifted vertically.
- An improvement in mood.
- November 17 2012, BBC Sport: Arsenal 5-2 Tottenham [4]
- The dismissal of a player who left Arsenal for Manchester City before joining Tottenham gave the home players and fans a noticeable lift.
- November 17 2012, BBC Sport: Arsenal 5-2 Tottenham [4]
- The amount or weight to be lifted.
- The space or distance through which anything is lifted.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Francis Bacon to this entry?)
- A rise; a degree of elevation.
- A liftgate.
- (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.
- (engineering) One of the steps of a cone pulley.
- (shoemaking) A layer of leather in the heel of a shoe.
- (horology) That portion of the vibration of a balance during which the impulse is given.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Saunier to this entry?)
Synonyms
- (mechanical device) elevator (US)
- (act of transporting) ride
- (upward force) uplift
Derived terms
Translations
See also
- escalator
Etymology 2
From Middle English lifte, luft, lefte (“air, sky, heaven”), from Old English lyft (“atmosphere, air”), from Proto-West Germanic *luftu, from Proto-Germanic *luftuz (“roof, sky, air”), from Proto-Indo-European *lewp- (“to peel, break off, damage”).
Cognate with Old High German luft (“air”) (German Luft), Dutch lucht (“air”), Old Norse lopt, loft (“upper room, sky, air”). More at loft.
Noun
lift (usually uncountable, plural lifts)
- (Britain dialectal, chiefly Scotland) Air.
- (Britain dialectal, chiefly Scotland) The sky; the heavens; firmament; atmosphere.
- 1836, Joanna Baillie, Witchcraft, Act 1, p.13
- No, no, Leddy! the sun maun be up in the lift whan I venture to her den.
- 1836, Joanna Baillie, Witchcraft, Act 1, p.13
Synonyms
- (gas or vapour breathed): air
- (firmament, ethereal region surrounding the earth): atmosphere
- (the heavens, sky): welkin
References
- Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “lift”, in Online Etymology Dictionary
Anagrams
- ILTF, flit
Danish
Etymology
From English lift
Noun
lift n (singular definite liftet, plural indefinite lift)
- The non-commercial act of transporting someone in a vehicle: ride
- boost
Inflection
Noun
lift c (singular definite liften, plural indefinite lifte or lifter)
- carrycot
- elevator
- lift
Inflection
Dutch
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /l?ft/
- Hyphenation: lift
- Rhymes: -?ft
Etymology 1
Borrowed from English lift.
Noun
lift m (plural liften, diminutive liftje n)
- A lift, an elevator.
- A free ride, a lift.
Derived terms
- goederenlift
- rolstoellift
- skilift
- stoeltjeslift
- traplift
Related terms
- liften
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the main entry.
Verb
lift
- first-, second- and third-person singular present indicative of liften
- imperative of liften
Estonian
Etymology
From English lift.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?lift/
Noun
lift (genitive lifta, partitive lifta)
- lift, elevator
Declension
Hungarian
Etymology
Borrowed from English lift.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?lift]
- Hyphenation: lift
- Rhymes: -ift
Noun
lift (plural liftek)
- lift, elevator
Declension
Synonyms
- felvonó (dated)
- páternoszter (a slow, continuously moving lift or elevator)
Derived terms
- liftes
- liftezik
(Compound words):
- személyzeti lift (lift/elevator for staff)
- beteglift (lift/elevator for patients in hospitals)
- sílift
- teherlift
Further reading
- lift in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN
Indonesian
Etymology
From English lift, from Middle English liften, lyften, from Old Norse lypta (“to lift, air”, literally “to raise in the air”), from Proto-Germanic *luftijan? (“to raise in the air”), related to *luftuz (“roof, air”), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *lewp- (“to peel, break off, damage”) or from a root meaning roof (see *luftuz).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?l?f]
- Hyphenation: lift
Noun
lift (plural lift-lift, first-person possessive liftku, second-person possessive liftmu, third-person possessive liftnya)
- lift, mechanical device for vertically transporting goods or people between floors in a building; an elevator.
Compounds
Further reading
- “lift” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.
Italian
Etymology
From English lift
Noun
lift m (invariable)
- lift / elevator operator
- (tennis) topspin
Derived terms
- liftare
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
From English lift.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /lîft/
Noun
l?ft m (Cyrillic spelling ?????)
- lift, elevator
Declension
Synonyms
- d?zalo
Slovak
Etymology
From English lift.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?lift/
Noun
lift m (genitive singular liftu, nominative plural lifty, genitive plural liftov, declension pattern of dub)
- (colloquial) an elevator, lift
Declension
Synonyms
- vý?ah
Derived terms
- liftový
Further reading
- lift in Slovak dictionaries at korpus.sk
Uzbek
Etymology
From Russian ???? (lift), from English lift.
Noun
lift (plural liftlar)
- elevator, lift
Declension
Related terms
- liftchi
- liftyor
Volapük
Noun
lift (nominative plural lifts)
- elevator
- altitude adjustor
Declension
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convey
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Old French conveier (French French convoyer), from Vulgar Latin *convio, from Classical Latin via (“way”). Compare convoy.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /k?n?ve?/
- Rhymes: -e?
Verb
convey (third-person singular simple present conveys, present participle conveying, simple past and past participle conveyed)
- To move (something) from one place to another.
- 1611, King James Version of the Bible, 1 Kings 5:8-9,[1]
- […] I will do all thy desire concerning timber of cedar, and concerning timber of fir. My servants shall bring them down from Lebanon unto the sea: and I will convey them by sea in floats unto the place that thou shalt appoint me, and will cause them to be discharged there […]
- 1858, Henry Gray, London: John W. Parker & Son, “Female Organs of Generation,” p. 688,[2]
- The Fallopian Tubes, or oviducts, convey the ova from the ovaries to the cavity of the uterus.
- 1611, King James Version of the Bible, 1 Kings 5:8-9,[1]
- (dated) To take or carry (someone) from one place to another.
- c. 1595, William Shakespeare, Richard II, Act II, Scene 1,[3]
- Convey me to my bed, then to my grave:
- Love they to live that love and honour have.
- 1717, Samuel Croxall (translator), Ovid’s Metamorphoses in Fifteen Books, Translated by the Most Eminent Hands, London: Jacob Tonson, Book the Sixth, p. 200,[4]
- […] the false Tyrant seiz’d the Princely Maid,
- And to a Lodge in distant Woods convey’d;
- 1817, Jane Austen, Persuasion, Chapter 19,[5]
- It began to rain, not much, but enough to make shelter desirable for women, and quite enough to make it very desirable for Miss Elliot to have the advantage of being conveyed home in Lady Dalrymple’s carriage, which was seen waiting at a little distance […]
- c. 1595, William Shakespeare, Richard II, Act II, Scene 1,[3]
- To communicate; to make known; to portray.
- 1690, John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, London: Thomas Basset, Book III, Chapter 9, p. 232,[6]
- To make Words serviceable to the end of Communication is necessary […] that they excite, in the Hearer, exactly the same Idea they stand for, in the Mind of the Speaker: Without this, Men fill one another’s Heads with noise and sounds; but convey not thereby their Thoughts, and lay not before one another their Ideas, which is the end of Discourse and Language.
- 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, Dublin: John Smith, Volume 2, Book 7, Chapter 6, p. 27,[7]
- This excellent Method of conveying a Falshood with the Heart only, without making the Tongue guilty of an Untruth, by the Means of Equivocation and Imposture, hath quieted the Conscience of many a notable Deceiver […]
- 1895, H. G. Wells, The Time Machine, Chapter 3,[8]
- I am afraid I cannot convey the peculiar sensations of time travelling.
- 1927, Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse, Chapter 1,[9]
- To her son these words conveyed an extraordinary joy, as if it were settled, the expedition were bound to take place, and the wonder to which he had looked forward, for years and years it seemed, was, after a night’s darkness and a day’s sail, within touch.
- 1690, John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, London: Thomas Basset, Book III, Chapter 9, p. 232,[6]
- (law) To transfer legal rights (to).
- He conveyed ownership of the company to his daughter.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, A View of the Present State of Ireland, Dublin, The Hibernia Press, 1809, p. 42,[10]
- […] before his breaking forth into open rebellion, [the Earle of Desmond] had conveyed secretly all his lands to feoffees of trust, in hope to have cut off her Maiestie from the escheate of his lands.
- (obsolete) To manage with privacy; to carry out.
- 1557, uncredited translator, A Mery Dialogue by Erasmus, London: Antony Kytson,[11]
- I shall so conuey my matters, that he shall dysclose all together hym selfe, what busynesse is betwene you […]
- c. 1605, William Shakespeare, King Lear, Act I, Scene 2,[12]
- I will seek him, sir, presently; convey the business as I shall find means, and acquaint you withal.
- 1557, uncredited translator, A Mery Dialogue by Erasmus, London: Antony Kytson,[11]
- (obsolete) To carry or take away secretly; to steal; to thieve.
- 1592, Robert Greene, A Disputation betweene a Hee Conny-Catcher and a Shee Conny-Catcher, London: T. Gubbin,
- Suppose you are good at the lift, who be more cunning then we women, in that we are more trusted, for they little suspect vs, and we haue as close conueyance as you men, though you haue Cloakes, we haue skirts of gownes, handbaskets, the crownes of our hattes, our plackardes, and for a need, false bagges vnder our smockes, wherein we can conuey more closely then you.
- 1592, Robert Greene, A Disputation betweene a Hee Conny-Catcher and a Shee Conny-Catcher, London: T. Gubbin,
Synonyms
- (to move something from one place to another): carry, transport
- (to take someone from one place to another): accompany, conduct (archaic), escort
- (to communicate a message): express, send, relay
Derived terms
Related terms
- convoy
Translations
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