different between uplift vs upliftment

English

Etymology

up- +? lift

Pronunciation

• (verb) enPR: ?pl?ft?, IPA^(key): /?p?l?ft/
• (adjective, noun) enPR: ?p?l?ft, IPA^(key): /??pl?ft/

Verb

uplift (third-person singular simple present uplifts, present participle uplifting, simple past and past participle uplifted)

1. To raise something or someone to a higher physical, social, moral, intellectual, spiritual or emotional level.
2. (law, of a penalty) To aggravate; to increase.
3. (aviation, travel) To be accepted for carriage on a flight.
4. (New Zealand) To remove (a child) from a damaging home environment by a social welfare organization.

Translations

Noun

uplift (plural uplifts)

1. The act or result of being uplifted.
2. (geology) A tectonic upheaval, especially one that takes place in the process of mountain building.
   • 1971, George Finiel Adams, Jerome Wyckoff, Landforms (page 143)

     Recent uplift of the Maine and Oregon coasts has not been enough to "undrown" the larger valleys; the shorelines are still submergent.

3. (colloquial) A brassiere that raises the breasts.

See also

• improvement

Translations

Anagrams

• lift up, liftup, pitful

English

Etymology

uplift +? -ment

Noun

upliftment (countable and uncountable, plural upliftments)

1. Lifting up; elevation or promotion.
   • 1993, Amit Goswami, Richard E Reed, Maggie Goswami, The self-aware universe: how consciousness creates the material world

     We turn to the spirit because the material world has nothing to offer us; we declare spiritual upliftments to be the highest virtues.

   • 2002, David Theo Goldberg, The racial state

     Intermarriage, he apparently thought, would produce racial upliftment, biologically as much as spiritually and culturally, through generational enhancement.