An act of lifting or raising. • The act of transporting someone in a vehicle; a ride; a trip. • A mechanical device for vertically transporting goods or people between floors in a building. • A mechanical device for raising vehicles for service, so that it is easier for a mechanic to get beneath them. • An upward force; especially, the force (generated by wings, rotary wings, or airfoils) that keeps aircraft aloft. • Any technique for lifting weights. • The difference in elevation between the upper pool and lower pool of a waterway, separated by lock. • A thief. • The lifting of a dance partner into the air. • Permanent construction with a built-in platform that is lifted vertically. • An improvement in mood. • The amount or weight to be lifted. • The space or distance through which anything is lifted. • A rise; a degree of elevation. • A liftgate. • A rope leading from the masthead to the extremity of a yard below, and used for raising or supporting the end of the yard. • One of the steps of a cone pulley. • A layer of leather in the heel of a shoe. • That portion of the vibration of a balance during which the impulse is given. • A morphism which some given morphism factors through; i.e. given a pair of morphisms f:X→Y and g:Z→Y, a morphism h such that f=g∘h. (In this case h is said to be a lift of f via Z or via g). • A shorter extract from a commercial/advertisement, able to be used on its own.