Found 4 items, similar to lift.
English → Indonesian (quick) Definition: lift anggung, angkat, angkatan, mengangkat, pengangkat
Indonesian → English (quick) Definition: lift elevator
English → English (WordNet) Definition: lift lift n 1: the act of giving temporary assistance 2: the component of the aerodynamic forces acting on an airfoil that opposes gravity [syn: aerodynamic lift] 3: the event of something being raised upward; “an elevation of the temperature in the afternoon”; “a raising of the land resulting from volcanic activity” [syn: elevation, raising] 4: a wave that lifts the surface of the water or ground [syn: rise] 5: a powered conveyance that carries skiers up a hill [syn: ski tow , ski lift] 6: a device worn in a shoe or boot to make the wearer look taller or to correct a shortened leg 7: one of the layers forming the heel of a shoe or boot 8: lifting device consisting of a platform or cage that is raised and lowered mechanically in a vertical shaft in order to move people from one floor to another in a building [syn: elevator] 9: plastic surgery to remove wrinkles and other signs of aging from your face; an incision is made near the hair line and skin is pulled back and excess tissue is excised; “some actresses have more than one face lift” [syn: face lift, facelift, face lifting, cosmetic surgery, rhytidectomy, rhytidoplasty, nip and tuck] 10: transportation of people or goods by air (especially when other means of access are unavailable) [syn: airlift] 11: a ride in a car; “he gave me a lift home” 12: the act of raising something; “he responded with a lift of his eyebrow”; “fireman learn several different raises for getting ladders up” [syn: raise, heave] lift v 1: raise from a lower to a higher position; “Raise your hands”; “Lift a load” [syn: raise, elevate, get up, bring up ] [ant: lower] 2: take hold of something and move it to a different location; “lift the box onto the table” 3: move upwards; “lift one's eyes” [syn: raise] 4: move upward; “The fog lifted”; “The smoke arose from the forest fire”; “The mist uprose from the meadows” [syn: rise, arise, move up, go up, come up, uprise] [ant: descend] 5: make audible; “He lifted a war whoop” 6: annul by recalling or rescinding; “He revoked the ban on smoking”; “lift an embargo”; “vacate a death sentence” [syn: revoke, annul, countermand, reverse, repeal, overturn, rescind, vacate] 7: make off with belongings of others [syn: pilfer, cabbage, purloin, pinch, abstract, snarf, swipe, hook, sneak, filch, nobble] 8: raise or haul up with or as if with mechanical help; “hoist the bicycle onto the roof of the car” [syn: hoist, wind] 9: invigorate or heighten; “lift my spirits”; “lift his ego” [syn: raise] 10: raise in rank or condition; “The new law lifted many people from poverty” [syn: raise, elevate] 11: take off or away by decreasing; “lift the pressure” 12: rise up; “The building rose before them” [syn: rise, rear] 13: pay off (a mortgage) 14: take without referencing from someone else's writing or speech; of intellectual property [syn: plagiarize, plagiarise] 15: take illegally; “rustle cattle” [syn: rustle] 16: fly people or goods to or from places not accessible by other means; “Food is airlifted into Bosnia” [syn: airlift] 17: take (root crops) out of the ground; “lift potatoes” 18: call to stop the hunt or to retire, as of hunting dogs 19: rise upward, as from pressure or moisture; “The floor is lifting slowly” 20: put an end to; “lift a ban”; “raise a siege” [syn: raise] 21: remove (hair) by scalping 22: remove from a seedbed or from a nursery; “lift the tulip bulbs” 23: remove from a surface; “the detective carefully lifted some fingerprints from the table” 24: perform cosmetic surgery on someone's face [syn: face-lift]
English → English (gcide) Definition: lift Elevator \El"e*va`tor\, n. [L., one who raises up, a deliverer: cf. F. ['e]l['e]vateur.] 1. One who, or that which, raises or lifts up anything. [1913 Webster] 2. A mechanical contrivance, usually an endless belt or chain with a series of scoops or buckets, for transferring grain to an upper loft for storage. [1913 Webster] 3. A cage or platform (called an elevator car) and the hoisting machinery in a hotel, warehouse, mine, etc., for conveying persons, goods, etc., to or from different floors or levels; -- called in England a lift; the cage or platform itself. [1913 Webster] 4. A building for elevating, storing, and discharging, grain. [1913 Webster] 5. (Anat.) A muscle which serves to raise a part of the body, as the leg or the eye. [1913 Webster] 6. (Surg.) An instrument for raising a depressed portion of a bone. [1913 Webster] 7. (A["e]ronautics) A movable plane or group of planes used to control the altitude or fore-and-aft poise or inclination of an airship or flying machine. [Webster 1913 Suppl.] Elevator head, Elevator leg, & Elevator boot, the boxes in which the upper pulley, belt, and lower pulley, respectively, run in a grain elevator. [1913 Webster] Elevator shoes, shoes having unusually thick soles and heels, designed to make a person appear taller than he or she actually is. [PJC]