lift

How to sign: raise from a lower to a higher position
"Raise your hands"; "Lift a load";

See also: pick up, lift up, gather up

Similiar / Same: raise, elevate, get up, bring up

Categories: displace, move

Within this category: chin, get up, heighten, hike, hoist, hoist, hoist, jack, kick up, levitate, pick up, pinnacle, pump, raise, rear, shoulder, skid, trice, underlay

lift

How to sign: annul by recalling or rescinding
"He revoked the ban on smoking"; "lift an embargo"; "vacate a death sentence";

Similiar / Same: countermand, repeal, rescind, revoke, annul, reverse, overturn

Categories: cancel, strike down

Within this category: renege

lift

How to sign: 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

Similiar / Same: elevator

Categories: lifting device

Within this category: dumbwaiter, freight elevator, paternoster

lift

How to sign: raise or haul up with or as if with mechanical help
"hoist the bicycle onto the roof of the car";

Similiar / Same: hoist, wind

Categories: bring up, elevate, get up, lift, raise

Within this category: trice

lift

How to sign: make off with belongings of others

Similiar / Same: pilfer, cabbage, purloin, snarf, filch, abstract, swipe, nobble, pinch, sneak, hook

Categories: steal

lift

How to sign: a device used to raise a car so that it can be worked on from underneath
"car lifts are the standard for all automotive repair shops";

lift

How to sign: move upward
"The fog lifted"; "The smoke arose from the forest fire"; "The mist uprose from the meadows";

See also: surface, rise up, come up, rise

Similiar / Same: rise, move up, go up, arise, come up, uprise

Categories: go, locomote, move, travel

Within this category: chandelle, climb, go up, rise, rocket, scend, soar, steam, uplift

lift

How to sign: a powered conveyance that carries skiers up a hill

Similiar / Same: ski tow, ski lift

Categories: conveyance, transport

Within this category: chairlift, rope tow, surface lift

lift

How to sign: transportation of people or goods by air (especially when other means of access are unavailable)

Similiar / Same: airlift

Categories: conveyance, transfer, transferral, transportation

Within this category: Berlin airlift

lift

How to sign: take without referencing from someone else's writing or speech; of intellectual property

Similiar / Same: plagiarize, plagiarise

Categories: steal

Within this category: crib

lift

How to sign: take illegally
"rustle cattle";

Similiar / Same: rustle

Categories: steal