different between lug vs lift

English

Etymology

Probably from Old Norse (compare Swedish lugga, Norwegian lugge). Noun is via Scots lugge, probably from Old Norse (compare Norwegian and Swedish lugg). Probably related to slug (“lazy, slow-moving”), which is from similar Scandinavian sources.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American, Canada) enPR: l?g, IPA^(key): /l??/
• Rhymes: -??

Noun

lug (plural lugs)

1. The act of hauling or dragging.

2. That which is hauled or dragged.

3. Anything that moves slowly.

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4. A lug nut.

   Synonym: lug nut

5. (electricity) A device for terminating an electrical conductor to facilitate the mechanical connection; to the conductor it may be crimped to form a cold weld, soldered or have pressure from a screw.
6. A part of something which sticks out, used as a handle or support.
7. A fool, a large man.

   Synonym: big lug

8. (Britain) An ear or ear lobe.

9. A wood box used for transporting fruit or vegetables.
10. (slang) A request for money, as for political purposes.

11. (Britain, dialect) A rod or pole.

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12. (Britain, archaic, dialect) A measure of length equal to 16+¹?₂ feet.

    Synonym: rod

13. (nautical) A lugsail.
14. (harness) The leather loop or ear by which a shaft is held up.
15. A loop (or protuberance) found on both arms of a hinge, featuring a hole for the axis of the hinge.
16. A ridge or other protuberance on the surface of a body to increase traction or provide a hold for holding and moving it.
17. A lugworm.

Derived terms

• (protruding support): launch lug

Translations

Verb

lug (third-person singular simple present lugs, present participle lugging, simple past and past participle lugged)

1. (transitive, sometimes figuratively) To haul or drag along (especially something heavy); to carry; to pull.
   • 1923, P. G. Wodehouse, The Inimitable Jeeves:

     As a rule, you see, I'm not lugged into Family Rows. On the occasions when Aunt is calling to Aunt like mastodons bellowing across primeval swamps and Uncle James's letter about Cousin Mabel's peculiar behaviour is being shot round the family circle... the clan has a tendency to ignore me.

   • c. 1700 Jeremy Collier, A Thought

     They must divide the image among them, and so lug off every one his share.

2. (transitive) To run at too slow a speed.

3. (transitive, nautical) To carry an excessive amount of sail for the conditions prevailing.
4. (intransitive, horse-racing) To pull toward the inside rail ("lugging in") or the outside rail ("lugging out") during a race.

Derived terms

• luggage

Translations

References

• Frank Graham (1987) The New Geordie Dictionary, ?ISBN
• A Dictionary of North East Dialect, Bill Griffiths, 2005, Northumbria University Press, ?ISBN
• Newcastle 1970s, Scott Dobson and Dick Irwin, [2]
• A List of words and phrases in everyday use by the natives of Hetton-le-Hole in the County of Durham, F.M.T.Palgrave, English Dialect Society vol.74, 1896, [3]

Anagrams

• Gul

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch lucht.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lœ?/

Noun

lug (uncountable, diminutive luggie)

1. air

Usage notes

The plural form of lug is lugte, but it exists only in literary texts and is otherwise never used.

Albanian

Etymology

From Proto-Albanian *lug(?), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)leuK- (“to gulp/drink (down), swallow”). Cognate to Lithuanian li?gas (“morass”), Old Norse slok (“trough, spillway”), Middle High German sl?ch (“gulf, abyss”).

Noun

lug m (indefinite plural lugje, definite singular lugu, definite plural lugjet)

1. trough, (water) channel, spillway
2. groove (especially in trees)
3. valley (between mountains or hills through which a river or creek flows)

Declension

Derived terms

References

Irish

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

lug m (genitive singular luga, nominative plural luganna)

1. (mechanics) lug

Declension

Derived terms

• lug seoil (“lugsail”)

Further reading

• "lug" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• Entries containing “lug” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.

Livonian

Etymology

Akin to Finnish luku.

Noun

lug

1. number

Primitive Irish

Romanization

lug

1. Romanization of ???

Scanian

Etymology

From Old Norse lok.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?l????]

Noun

lug n

1. weed, unwanted plant

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology 1

From Proto-Slavic *l?g?.

Noun

l?g m (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. small forest, grove

   Synonyms: šumica, gaj

2. swamp forest

Declension

Further reading

• “lug” in Hrvatski jezi?ni portal

Etymology 2

From Middle High German louge, from Proto-Germanic *laug? ("soap, lye").

Noun

l?g m (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. ash (fire residue)
2. lye

Declension

Further reading

• “lug” in Hrvatski jezi?ni portal

Slovene

Etymology

From Middle High German louge, from Proto-Germanic *laug? ("soap, lye").

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lù?k/, /lú?k/

Noun

l?g m inan

1. lye

Inflection

Further reading

• “lug”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran

Somali

Noun

lug ?

1. leg

Yola

Noun

lug

1. Alternative form of lhug

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)

1. (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.
2. (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.
3. (transitive, slang) To source directly without acknowledgement; to plagiarise.
4. (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.

5. (transitive) To remove (a ban, restriction, etc.).
6. (transitive) To alleviate, to lighten (pressure, tension, stress, etc.)
7. (transitive) to cause to move upwards.
8. (informal, intransitive) To lift weights; to weight-lift.

9. To try to raise something; to exert the strength for raising or bearing.

   • strained by lifting at a weight too heavy

10. To elevate or improve in rank, condition, etc.; often with up.

    • The Roman virtues lift up mortal man.

    • being lifted up with pride

11. (obsolete) To bear; to support.

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12. To collect, as moneys due; to raise.
13. (programming) To transform (a function) into a corresponding function in a different context.
14. (finance) To buy a security or other asset previously offered for sale.
15. (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.

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)

1. An act of lifting or raising.
2. The act of transporting someone in a vehicle; a ride; a trip.

   He gave me a lift to the bus station.

3. (Britain, Australia, New Zealand) Mechanical device for vertically transporting goods or people between floors in a building; an elevator.

4. An upward force, such as the force that keeps aircraft aloft.
5. (measurement) The difference in elevation between the upper pool and lower pool of a waterway, separated by lock.
6. (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.

7. (dance) The lifting of a dance partner into the air.
8. Permanent construction with a built-in platform that is lifted vertically.
9. 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.

10. The amount or weight to be lifted.

11. The space or distance through which anything is lifted.

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12. A rise; a degree of elevation.

13. A liftgate.
14. (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.
15. (engineering) One of the steps of a cone pulley.
16. (shoemaking) A layer of leather in the heel of a shoe.
17. (horology) That portion of the vibration of a balance during which the impulse is given.

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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)

1. (Britain dialectal, chiefly Scotland) Air.
2. (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.

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)

1. The non-commercial act of transporting someone in a vehicle: ride
2. boost

Inflection

Noun

lift c (singular definite liften, plural indefinite lifte or lifter)

1. carrycot
2. elevator
3. 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)

1. A lift, an elevator.
2. 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

1. first-, second- and third-person singular present indicative of liften
2. imperative of liften

Estonian

Etymology

From English lift.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?lift/

Noun

lift (genitive lifta, partitive lifta)

1. lift, elevator

Declension

Hungarian

Etymology

Borrowed from English lift.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?lift]
• Hyphenation: lift
• Rhymes: -ift

Noun

lift (plural liftek)

1. 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)

1. 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)

1. lift / elevator operator
2. (tennis) topspin

Derived terms

• liftare

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From English lift.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lîft/

Noun

l?ft m (Cyrillic spelling ?????)

1. 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)

1. (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)

1. elevator, lift

Declension

Related terms

• liftchi
• liftyor

Volapük

Noun

lift (nominative plural lifts)

1. elevator
2. altitude adjustor

Declension