different between take vs lift

English

Etymology

From Middle English taken (“to take, lay hold of, grasp, strike”), from Old English tacan (“to grasp, touch”), of North Germanic origin, from Old Norse taka (“to touch, take”), from Proto-Germanic *t?kan? (“to touch”), from Proto-Indo-European *deh?g- (“to touch”). Gradually displaced Middle English nimen ("to take"; see nim), from Old English niman (“to take”). Cognate with Icelandic and Norwegian Nynorsk taka (“to take”), Norwegian Bokmål ta (“to take”), Swedish ta (“to take”), Danish tage (“to take, seize”), Middle Dutch taken (“to grasp”), Dutch taken (“to take; grasp”), Middle Low German tacken (“to grasp”). Compare tackle.

Pronunciation

• enPR: t?k, IPA^(key): /te?k/, [t?e??k]
• Rhymes: -e?k

Verb

take (third-person singular simple present takes, present participle taking, simple past took, past participle taken)

1. (transitive) To get into one's hands, possession, or control, with or without force.
   1. (transitive) To seize or capture.

   2. (transitive) To catch or get possession of (fish or game).

   3. (transitive, cricket) To catch the ball; especially as a wicket-keeper and after the batsman has missed or edged it.
   4. (transitive) To appropriate or transfer into one's own possession, sometimes by physically carrying off.

   5. (transitive) To exact.

   6. (transitive) To capture or win (a piece or trick) in a game.

2. (transitive) To receive or accept (something) (especially something given or bestowed, awarded, etc).

   • Ye shall take no satisfaction for the life of a murderer.

   1. (transitive) To receive or accept (something) as payment or compensation.

   2. (transitive) To accept and follow (advice, etc).

   3. (transitive) To receive into some relationship.

   4. (transitive, intransitive, law) To receive or acquire (property) by law (e.g. as an heir).
      • 1832, Lodge v Simonton, in Reports of Cases Adjudged in the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, page 442:

        There was no intestacy, and they did not take under the will as heirs, […]

      • 1913, Conrad v Conrad et al (Court of Appeals of Kentucky, Feb. 25, 1913), in The Southwestern Reporter, volumes 153-154, page 741:

        The only interest they have in the land arises under the will of E. J. Turnham, under which they take one half of the land.

3. (transitive) To remove.
   1. (transitive) To remove or end by death; to kill.

   2. (transitive) To subtract.

4. (transitive) To have sex with.
   • 2014 July 3, Susan Calman, during Mock the Week, series 13, episode 4:

     And the queen takes the bishop... this is turning out to be quite the royal wedding!

5. (transitive) To defeat (someone or something) in a fight.

6. (transitive) To grasp or grip.

7. (transitive) To select or choose; to pick.

   • Saul said, Cast lots between me and Jonathan my son. And Jonathan was taken.

8. (transitive) To adopt (select) as one's own.

9. (transitive) To carry or lead (something or someone).
   1. (transitive, especially of a vehicle) To transport or carry; to convey to another place.

   2. (transitive, of a path, road, etc.) To lead (to a place); to serve as a means of reaching.

   3. (transitive) To pass (or attempt to pass) through or around.

   4. (transitive) To escort or conduct (a person).
      • 2002(?), J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

        They're taking the Hobbits to Isengard!

   5. (reflexive) To go.
      • 2007, Edwin Mullins, The Popes of Avignon, Blue Bridge, 2008, page 59

        Nicholas then took himself to Avignon where in August 1330 he formally renounced his claim to the papacy.

10. (transitive) To use as a means of transportation.

11. (obsolete) To visit; to include in a course of travel.
    • c. 1677, William Penn, Travels in Holland and Germany

      Almost a year since, R. B. and B. F. took that city, in the way from Frederickstadt to Amsterdam, and gave them a visit.

    • 1827, Wesleyan Methodism in Manchester and its vicinity, volume 1, page 7:

      Mr. Clayton had not been long in his new situation, before Mr. Wasley tendered his personal respects to him; "For in May (1733), he set out for Epsworth, and took Manchster in his way to see him."

12. (transitive) To obtain for use by payment or lease.
    1. (transitive) To obtain or receive regularly by (paid) subscription.

13. (transitive) To consume.
    1. (transitive) To receive (medicine) into one's body, e.g. by inhalation or swallowing; to ingest.

    2. (transitive) To partake of (food or drink); to consume.

       • To such men as Mr. Hellyer, who every night take much strong drink, and on no occasion whatever take any exercise, sixty is the grand climacteric. He was, a year ago, just fifty-nine. Alas! he has not even reached his grand climacteric. Already he is gone. He was cut off by pneumonia, or apoplexy, last Christmas.

14. (transitive) To experience, undergo, or endure.
    1. (transitive) To undergo; to put oneself into, to be subjected to.

    2. (transitive) To experience or feel.
    3. (transitive) To submit to; to endure (without ill humor, resentment, or physical failure).

    4. (transitive) To participate in.
    5. (transitive) To suffer, to endure (a hardship or damage).

15. (transitive) To cause to change to a specified state or condition.

    He had to take it apart to fix it.

    She took down her opponent in two minutes.
16. (transitive) To regard in a specified way.
17. (transitive) To conclude or form (a decision or an opinion) in the mind.

18. (transitive) To understand (especially in a specified way).
    • 1853, The American Journal of Science and Arts, page 125:

      The author explained the theory of Dove, which, if we took him correctly, was, that the lustre of bodies and particularly the metallic lustre arose from the light coming from the one stratum of the superficial particles of bodies interfering on the eye […]

19. (transitive) To accept or be given (rightly or wrongly); assume (especially as if by right).

20. (transitive) To believe, to accept the statements of.
    • c. 1674-1718, Nicholas Rowe:

      I take thee at thy word.

21. (transitive) To assume or suppose; to reckon; to regard or consider.
22. (transitive) To draw, derive, or deduce (a meaning from something).
    • c. 1630-1694,, John Tillotson, Sermon V, The Excellency of the Christian Religion:

      And the firm belief of a future Judgment, which shall render to every man according to his deeds, if it be well consider'd, is to a reasonable nature the most forcible motive of all other to a good life; because it is taken from the consideration of the greatest and most lasting happiness and misery that human nature is capable of.

23. (transitive) To derive (as a title); to obtain from a source.

24. (transitive) To catch or contract (an illness, etc).

25. (transitive) To come upon or catch (in a particular state or situation).
26. (transitive) To captivate or charm; to gain or secure the interest or affection of.

    • Neither let her take thee with her eyelids.

    • 1688, William Wake, Preparation for Death

      Cleombroutus was so taken with this speculation, that […] he had not patience.

    • 1827, Thomas Moore, The Epicurean

      I know not why, but there was a something in those half-seen features, — a charm in the very shadow that hung over their imagined beauty, — which took my fancy more than all the outshining loveliness of her companions.

27. (transitive, of a material) To absorb or be impregnated by (dye, ink, etc); to be susceptible to being treated by (polish, etc).

28. (transitive, of a ship) To let in (water).
29. (transitive) To require.
    • 1920, China Monthly Review 15, page 357:

      If the summary of the Tientsin society is accurate, a famine population of more than 14,000,000 is already bad enough. If it takes five dollars to keep one of them alive, […]

    • 2009, Living It Out ?ISBN:

      While it takes courage to come out, the acceptance of parents and other family members can really help the person coming out to accept themselves.
30. (transitive) To proceed to fill.

31. (transitive) To fill, to use up (time or space).

32. (transitive) To avail oneself of.

33. (transitive) To practice; perform; execute; carry out; do.

    • To such men as Mr. Hellyer, who every night take much strong drink, and on no occasion whatever take any exercise, sixty is the grand climacteric.

34. (transitive) To assume or perform (a form or role).
    1. (transitive) To assume (a form).

    2. (transitive) To perform (a role).

    3. (transitive) To assume and undertake the duties of (a job, an office, etc).
35. (transitive) To bind oneself by.

36. (transitive) To move into.

37. (transitive) To go into, through, or along.

38. (transitive) To have and use one's recourse to.

39. (transitive) To ascertain or determine by measurement, examination or inquiry.

40. (transitive) To write down; to get in, or as if in, writing.

41. (transitive) To make (a photograph, film, or other reproduction of something).

42. (transitive, dated) To take a picture, photograph, etc of (a person, scene, etc).

43. (transitive) To obtain money from, especially by swindling.

44. (transitive, now chiefly by enrolling in a class or course) To apply oneself to the study of.

45. (transitive) To deal with.

46. (transitive) To consider in a particular way, or to consider as an example.

47. (transitive, baseball) To decline to swing at (a pitched ball); to refrain from hitting at, and allow to pass.

48. (transitive) To accept as an input to a relation.
    1. (transitive, grammar) To have to be used with (a certain grammatical form, etc).

    2. (transitive, mathematics, computing) To accept (zero or more arguments).

49. (intransitive) To get or accept (something) into one's possession.

50. (intransitive) To engage, take hold or have effect.
    1. (Of ink; dye; etc.) To adhere or be absorbed properly.

    2. (of a plant, etc) To begin to grow after being grafted or planted; to (literally or figuratively) take root, take hold.
       • 1884, Stephen Bleecker Luce, Text-book of Seamanship, page 179:

         The cradles are supported under their centres by shores, on which the keel takes.

    3. (of a mechanical device) To catch; to engage.
       • 2009, Sheldon Russell, The Yard Dog: A Mystery, page 210:

         At the depot, Hook climbed out, slamming the door twice before the latch took.

    4. (possibly dated) To win acceptance, favor or favorable reception; to charm people.
       • c. 1672-1719, Joseph Addison:

         Each wit may praise it for his own dear sake, / And hint he writ it, if the thing should take.

    5. To have the intended effect.
       • 1967, Richard Martin Stern, The Kessler Legacy, page 103:

         "When I was young," I said, "I was vaccinated with religion, but the vaccination didn't take."

51. (intransitive, copulative) To become; to be affected in a specified way.

52. (intransitive, possibly dated) To be able to be accurately or beautifully photographed.
53. (intransitive, dialectal, proscribed) An intensifier.
54. (transitive, obsolete) To deliver, bring, give (something) to (someone).
    • 1526, William Tyndale, trans. Bible, Matthew 22.19:

      Jesus perceaved there wylynes, and sayde: Why tempte ye me ye ypocrytes? lett me se the tribute money. And they toke hym a peny.

55. (transitive, obsolete outside dialects and slang) To give or deliver (a blow, to someone); to strike or hit.

Conjugation

Usage notes

• In a few informal sociolects, took is sometimes replaced by the proscribed form taked.
• In older forms of English, when the pronoun thou was in active use, and verbs used -est for distinct second-person singular indicative forms, the verb take had the form takest, and had tookest for its past tense.
• Similarly, when the ending -eth was in active use for third-person singular present indicative forms, the form taketh was used.

Quotations

• 1686, John Dryden, To The Pious Memory of the Accomplish'd Young Lady Mrs. Anne Killigrew

  Beauty alone could beauty take so right.

• 1973, Albert J. Reiss, The Police and the Public, page 44:

  A lot of officers when they knock off a still will take an axe to the barrels.

Synonyms

• (to get into one's possession): confiscate, seize; see also Thesaurus:take
• (military: to gain a position by force): capture, conquer, seize
• (to receive or accept something): garner, get, obtain, win; see also Thesaurus:receive
• (to remove): knock off, subduct; see also Thesaurus:remove
• (to kill): do in, off, terminate; see also Thesaurus:kill
• (to subtract): take away; see also Thesaurus:subtract
• (to have sex with): have, sleep with; see also Thesaurus:copulate with
• (to defeat in a fight): beat
• (to grasp with the hands): grab, grasp, grip, nim; see also Thesaurus:grasp
• (to consume): ingest, swallow

Antonyms

• (to accept): give
• (to carry): bring
• drop

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

take (plural takes)

1. The or an act of taking.
   • 1999, Impacts of California sea lions and Pacific harbor seals [...] (published by the United States National Marine Fisheries Service), page 32:

     The 1994 Amendments address the incidental take of marine mammals in the course of commercial fishing, not the direct lethal take of pinnipeds for management purposes.

2. Something that is taken; a haul.
   1. Money that is taken in, (legal or illegal) proceeds, income; (in particular) profits.
      • 2018 November 27, Paul Krugman, “The Depravity of Climate-Change Denial”, The New York Times, page A22:

        Money is still the main answer: Almost all prominent climate deniers are on the fossil-fuel take.

   2. The or a quantity of fish, game animals or pelts, etc which have been taken at one time; catch.
3. An interpretation or view, opinion or assessment; perspective.

4. An approach, a (distinct) treatment.

5. (film) A scene recorded (filmed) at one time, without an interruption or break; a recording of such a scene.

6. (music) A recording of a musical performance made during an uninterrupted single recording period.
7. A visible (facial) response to something, especially something unexpected; a facial gesture in response to an event.
8. (medicine) An instance of successful inoculation/vaccination.
9. (rugby, cricket) A catch of the ball (in cricket, especially one by the wicket-keeper).
10. (printing) The quantity of copy given to a compositor at one time.
    • 1884, John Southward, Practical Printing: A Handbook of the Art of Typography (page 197)

      A take usually consists of a little more than a stickful of matter, but it varies sometimes, for if a new paragraph occurs it is not overlooked. These takes are carefully numbered, and a list is kept of the compositors who take the several pieces.

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• Appendix:Collocations of do, have, make, and take
• intake
• outtake
• spit take
• taking, taking
• uptake

References

Anagrams

• Kate, kate, keta, teak

Japanese

Romanization

take

1. R?maji transcription of ??

Marshallese

Etymology

Borrowed from English turkey, named after Turkey, from Middle English Turkye, from French Turquie, Medieval Latin Turcia, from Turcus (“Turk”), from Byzantine Greek ??????? (Toûrkos), from Persian ???? (Turk), from Middle Persian twlk' (Turk), from an Old Turkic autonym, Türk or Türük.

Pronunciation

• (phonetic) IPA^(key): [t???e]
• (phonemic) IPA^(key): /t?ækej/
• Bender phonemes: {tak?y}

Noun

take

1. a turkey

References

• Marshallese–English Online Dictionary

Mauritian Creole

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /take/

Etymology

From French taquet.

Noun

take

1. power switch.

Middle English

Etymology 1

Verb

take (third-person singular simple present taketh, present participle takende, first-/third-person singular past indicative toke, past participle taken)

1. Alternative form of taken

Verb

take

1. Alternative form of taken: past participle of taken

Etymology 2

Noun

take (plural takes)

1. Alternative form of tak (“tack (small nail)”)

Etymology 3

Verb

take (third-person singular simple present taketh, present participle takynge, first-/third-person singular past indicative and past participle taked)

1. Alternative form of takken

Etymology 4

Noun

take (plural takes)

1. Alternative form of tak (“tack (fee paid to keep swine)”)

Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

take (present tense tek, past tense tok, past participle teke, passive infinitive takast, present participle takande, imperative tak)

1. Alternative form of taka

Pilagá

Verb

take

1. want

   se-take — I want

References

• 2001, Alejandra Vidal, quoted in Subordination in Native South-American Languages

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.

    (Can we find and add a quotation of Edmund Spenser to this entry?)

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.

    (Can we find and add a quotation of Francis Bacon to this entry?)

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.

    (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)

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