Lift

[lɪft]

解釋/意思:

(noun.) the act of raising something; 'he responded with a lift of his eyebrow'; 'fireman learn several different raises for getting ladders up'.

(noun.) a ride in a car; 'he gave me a lift home'.

(noun.) the act of giving temporary assistance.

(noun.) one of the layers forming the heel of a shoe or boot.

(noun.) a device worn in a shoe or boot to make the wearer look taller or to correct a shortened leg.

(noun.) a wave that lifts the surface of the water or ground.

(verb.) remove from a surface; 'the detective carefully lifted some fingerprints from the table'.

(verb.) take off or away by decreasing; 'lift the pressure'.

(verb.) remove from a seedbed or from a nursery; 'lift the tulip bulbs'.

(verb.) remove (hair) by scalping.

(verb.) put an end to; 'lift a ban'; 'raise a siege'.

(verb.) rise upward, as from pressure or moisture; 'The floor is lifting slowly'.

(verb.) raise in rank or condition; 'The new law lifted many people from poverty'.

(verb.) call to stop the hunt or to retire, as of hunting dogs.

(verb.) make audible; 'He lifted a war whoop'.

(verb.) take (root crops) out of the ground; 'lift potatoes'.

(verb.) take hold of something and move it to a different location; 'lift the box onto the table'.

(verb.) move upwards; 'lift one's eyes'.

(verb.) pay off (a mortgage).

手打:曼弗雷德--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(n.) The sky; the atmosphere; the firmament.

(v. t.) 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.

(v. t.) To raise, elevate, exalt, improve, in rank, condition, estimation, character, etc.; -- often with up.

(v. t.) To bear; to support.

(v. t.) To collect, as moneys due; to raise.

(v. t.) To steal; to carry off by theft (esp. cattle); as, to lift a drove of cattle.

(v. i.) To try to raise something; to exert the strength for raising or bearing.

(v. i.) To rise; to become or appear raised or elevated; as, the fog lifts; the land lifts to a ship approaching it.

(v. t.) To live by theft.

(n.) Act of lifting; also, that which is lifted.

(n.) The space or distance through which anything is lifted; as, a long lift.

(n.) Help; assistance, as by lifting; as, to give one a lift in a wagon.

(n.) That by means of which a person or thing lifts or is lifted

(n.) A hoisting machine; an elevator; a dumb waiter.

(n.) A handle.

(n.) An exercising machine.

(n.) A rise; a degree of elevation; as, the lift of a lock in canals.

(n.) A lift gate. See Lift gate, below.

(n.) A rope leading from the masthead to the extremity of a yard below; -- used for raising or supporting the end of the yard.

(n.) One of the steps of a cone pulley.

(n.) A layer of leather in the heel.

(n.) That portion of the vibration of a balance during which the impulse is given.

編輯:希娜

同義詞及近義詞：

v. a. Raise, elevate, lift up.

n. [1]. Lifting, raising.[2]. [Colloquial.] Aid, assistance, help.[3]. Rise (as of a lock in canals), degree of elevation.

校對:内奥米

同義詞及反義詞：

SYN:Raise, elevate, upraise, upheave, exalt, hoist, elate, erect

ANT:Lower, sink, depress, crush, overwhelm, degrade, dash, cast, hurl

整理:米莉

解釋/意思:

n. (Scot.) the air heavens sky.

v.t. to bring to a higher position: to elevate or keep elevated: to elate: to take and carry away: (obs.) to bear support: (slang) to arrest: to steal.—v.i. to rise: to try to rise.—n. act of lifting: that which is to be raised: that which assists to lift: a hoisting-machine: advancement.—adj. Lift′able.—ns. Lift′er one who or that which lifts: (Shak.) a thief; Lift′ing-bridge a drawbridge raised so as to allow ships to pass; Lift′-pump any pump which is not a force-pump.—Lift the hand to raise it in hostility; Lift up the eyes to look direct one's eyes or thoughts to; Lift up the face to look upward as in supplication; Lift up the hand to make oath swear: to pray; Lift up the head to rejoice exult; Lift up the voice to cry loudly.—Dead lift (see Dead).

手打:维罗妮卡