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Results for: "lift"

Translating from English to Welsh

Translations:

lift — mechanical device for vertically transporting goods or people
→ lifft m
lift — to raise or rise
→ codi
→ dyrchafu

Additional Definitions (WordNet):


NOUN (12)

1. the act of giving temporary assistance;

2. the component of the aerodynamic forces acting on an airfoil that opposes gravity;
[syn: aerodynamic lift, lift]

3. the event of something being raised upward;
- Example: "an elevation of the temperature in the afternoon"
- Example: "a raising of the land resulting from volcanic activity"
[syn: elevation, lift, raising]

4. a wave that lifts the surface of the water or ground;
[syn: lift, rise]

5. a powered conveyance that carries skiers up a hill;
[syn: ski tow, ski lift, 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, lift]

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;
- Example: "some actresses have more than one face lift"
[syn: face lift, facelift, lift, 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, lift]

11. a ride in a car;
- Example: "he gave me a lift home"

12. the act of raising something;
- Example: "he responded with a lift of his eyebrow"
- Example: "fireman learn several different raises for getting ladders up"
[syn: lift, raise, heave]


VERB (24)

1. raise from a lower to a higher position;
- Example: "Raise your hands"
- Example: "Lift a load"
[syn: raise, lift, elevate, get up, bring up]

2. take hold of something and move it to a different location;
- Example: "lift the box onto the table"

3. move upwards;
- Example: "lift one's eyes"
[syn: lift, raise]

4. move upward;
- Example: "The fog lifted"
- Example: "The smoke arose from the forest fire"
- Example: "The mist uprose from the meadows"
[syn: rise, lift, arise, move up, go up, come up, uprise]

5. make audible;
- Example: "He lifted a war whoop"

6. cancel officially;
- Example: "He revoked the ban on smoking"
- Example: "lift an embargo"
- Example: "vacate a death sentence"
[syn: revoke, annul, lift, 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, lift]

8. raise or haul up with or as if with mechanical help;
- Example: "hoist the bicycle onto the roof of the car"
[syn: hoist, lift, wind]

9. invigorate or heighten;
- Example: "lift my spirits"
- Example: "lift his ego"
[syn: raise, lift]

10. raise in rank or condition;
- Example: "The new law lifted many people from poverty"
[syn: lift, raise, elevate]

11. take off or away by decreasing;
- Example: "lift the pressure"

12. rise up;
- Example: "The building rose before them"
[syn: rise, lift, rear]

13. pay off (a mortgage);

14. take without referencing from someone else's writing or speech; of intellectual property;
[syn: plagiarize, plagiarise, lift]

15. take illegally;
- Example: "rustle cattle"
[syn: rustle, lift]

16. fly people or goods to or from places not accessible by other means;
- Example: "Food is airlifted into Bosnia"
[syn: airlift, lift]

17. take (root crops) out of the ground;
- Example: "lift potatoes"

18. call to stop the hunt or to retire, as of hunting dogs;

19. rise upward, as from pressure or moisture;
- Example: "The floor is lifting slowly"

20. put an end to;
- Example: "lift a ban"
- Example: "raise a siege"
[syn: lift, raise]

21. remove (hair) by scalping;

22. remove from a seedbed or from a nursery;
- Example: "lift the tulip bulbs"

23. remove from a surface;
- Example: "the detective carefully lifted some fingerprints from the table"

24. perform cosmetic surgery on someone's face;
[syn: face-lift, lift]