different between lifting vs quickening

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

English

Verb

quickening

1. present participle of quicken

Noun

quickening (plural quickenings)

1. An increase of speed.
   • 1861, United States. War Dept, U.S. Infantry Tactics (page 124)

     If the following guide lose his distance from the one leading (which can only happen by his own fault), he will correct himself by slightly lengthening or shortening a few steps, in order that there may not be sudden quickenings or slackenings in the march of his platoon.

2. The action of bringing someone or something to life.
3. The first noticable movements of a foetus during pregnancy, or the period when this occurs.
4. Stimulation, excitement (of a feeling, emotion etc.).
   • 1897, Henry James, What Maisie Knew:

     It may indeed be said that these days brought on a high quickening of Maisie's direct percptions, of her sense of freedom to make out things for herself.