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1. (ambitransitive) To raise or rise.
2. (transitive) To cause to move upwards.
3. (transitive, slang) To steal.
4. (transitive, slang) To source directly without acknowledgement; to plagiarise.
5. (transitive, slang) To arrest (a person).
6. (transitive) To remove (a ban, restriction, etc.).
7. (transitive) To alleviate, to lighten (pressure, tension, stress, etc.)
8. (intransitive, especially Scotland) To disperse, to break up.
9. (informal, intransitive) To lift weights; to weight-lift.
10. To try to raise something; to exert the strength for raising or bearing.
11. To elevate or improve in rank, condition, etc.; often with up.
12. (obsolete) To bear; to support.
13. To collect, as moneys due; to raise.
14. (category theory, transitive) Given morphisms ${\displaystyle f}$ and ${\displaystyle g}$ with the same target: To produce a morphism which the given morphism factors through (i.e. a morphism ${\displaystyle h}$ such that ${\displaystyle f=g\circ h}$; cf. lift n.)
15. (programming) To transform (a function) into a corresponding function in a different context.
16. (finance) To buy a security or other asset previously offered for sale.
17. (hunting, transitive) To take (hounds) off the existing scent and move them to another spot.

Substantiivi

1. (UK dialectal, chiefly Scotland) Air.
2. An act of lifting or raising.
3. (UK dialectal, chiefly Scotland) The sky; the heavens; firmament; atmosphere.
4. The act of transporting someone in a vehicle; a ride; a trip.
5. (UK, Australia, New Zealand, India, puristic elsewhere) Mechanical device for vertically transporting goods or people between floors in a building.
6. An upward force; especially, the force (generated by wings, rotary wings, or airfoils) that keeps aircraft aloft.
7. (measurement) The difference in elevation between the upper pool and lower pool of a waterway, separated by lock.
8. (historical slang) A thief.
9. (dance) The lifting of a dance partner into the air.
10. Permanent construction with a built-in platform that is lifted vertically.
11. (figurative) An improvement in mood.
12. The amount or weight to be lifted.
13. The space or distance through which anything is lifted.
14. A rise; a degree of elevation.
15. A liftgate.
16. (nautical) A rope leading from the masthead to the extremity of a yard below, and used for raising or supporting the end of the yard.
17. (engineering) One of the steps of a cone pulley.
18. (shoemaking) A layer of leather in the heel of a shoe.
19. (horology) That portion of the vibration of a balance during which the impulse is given.
20. (category theory) A morphism which some given morphism factors through; i.e. given a pair of morphisms ${\displaystyle f:X\to Y}$ and ${\displaystyle g:Z\to Y}$, a morphism ${\displaystyle h}$ such that ${\displaystyle f=g\circ h}$. (In this case ${\displaystyle h}$ is said to be a lift of ${\displaystyle f}$ via ${\displaystyle Z}$ or via ${\displaystyle g}$).
21. (broadcasting) A shorter extract from a commercial/advertisement, able to be used on its own.