different between picking vs lifting

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p?k??/
• Rhymes: -?k??

Verb

picking

1. present participle of pick

Noun

picking (plural pickings)

1. A gathering to pick fruit.

   We went to a strawberry picking last June.

2. (usually pluralized) Items remaining after others have selected the best; scraps, as of food.
   • 1899, F. Marion Crawford, Via Crucis, ch. 9:

     Gilbert wandered through . . .the haunts of ravenous dogs and homeless cats that kept themselves alive on the choice pickings of the city's garbage.

3. (usually pluralized) Income or other gains, especially if obtained in an unscrupulous or objectionable manner.
   • 1919, Anthony Hope, The Secret of the Tower, ch. 11:

     He liked the pickings which the job brought him much better than the job itself.

4. Something picked or pulled out.

   The schoolboy flicked his nose pickings across the classroom.

5. The act of making a choice; selection.
6. The final finishing of woven fabrics by removing burs, etc.
7. The removal of defects from electrotype plates.
8. Dabbing in stoneworking.

Synonyms

• (items remaining after others have selected the best): leftovers
• (unscrupulously acquired gains): See Thesaurus:booty

Derived terms

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