Word Meaning

Meaning of "lifts" and the crossword clue

- Bring up
- Elevate
- Elevator
- Hoist
- Raise
- Dumb waiters
- Elevators
- Elevators in the UK
- Hoists
- Raises
- Steals elevators
- The sky; the atmosphere; the firmament.
- To move in a direction opposite to that of gravitation; to raise; to elevate; to bring up from a lower place to a higher; to upheave; sometimes implying a continued support or holding in the higher place; -- said of material things; as, to lift the foot or the hand; to lift a chair or a burden.
- To raise, elevate, exalt, improve, in rank, condition, estimation, character, etc.; -- often with up.
- To bear; to support.
- To collect, as moneys due; to raise.
- To steal; to carry off by theft (esp. cattle); as, to lift a drove of cattle.
- To try to raise something; to exert the strength for raising or bearing.
- To rise; to become or appear raised or elevated; as, the fog lifts; the land lifts to a ship approaching it.
- To live by theft.
- Act of lifting; also, that which is lifted.
- The space or distance through which anything is lifted; as, a long lift.
- Help; assistance, as by lifting; as, to give one a lift in a wagon.
- That by means of which a person or thing lifts or is lifted
- A hoisting machine; an elevator; a dumb waiter.
- A handle.
- An exercising machine.
- A rise; a degree of elevation; as, the lift of a lock in canals.
- A lift gate. See Lift gate, below.
- A rope leading from the masthead to the extremity of a yard below; -- 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.
- That portion of the vibration of a balance during which the impulse is given.