lifts
noun
Meaning
- An act of lifting or raising.
- The act of transporting someone in a vehicle; a ride; a trip.
- Mechanical device for vertically transporting goods or people between floors in a building; an elevator.
- An upward force, such as the force that keeps aircraft aloft.
- (measurement) The difference in elevation between the upper pool and lower pool of a waterway, separated by lock.
- A thief.
- To raise or rise.
- To steal.
- To source directly without acknowledgement; to plagiarise.
- To arrest (a person).
- To remove (a ban, restriction, etc.).
- To alleviate, to lighten (pressure, tension, stress, etc.)
- Air.
- The sky; the heavens; firmament; atmosphere.
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