- Types Of Speech
- You can use lift as a noun or as a verb in a sentence.
- About Lift
- A 1 syllables noun and 4 letters with the letters f, i, l, and t, 3 consonants, 1 vowels and 1 syllables with the middle letters if. Lift starts with and ends in a consonant with the starting letters l, li, lif, and the ending characters are t, ft, ift, ..
- Definition
- The act of raising something; "he responded with a lift of his eyebrow"; "fireman learn several different raises for getting ladders up"
- Origin/Roots
- Middle English
- School Grade
- Lift is set as a kindergarten word that starts with l, ends with t, 1 syllables, 1 vowels and 4 letters.
- Scrabble
- Is lift a scrabble word? A 7 point word in scrabble. Check the word games tab below for probability, odds and more.
- Pig Latin
- Lift in Pig Latin is said as "iftlay or iftlway".
- Unigram
- l | i | f | t
- Bigram
- li | if | ft
- Trigram
- lif | ift
- Quadrigram
- lift
- Word Gram
- Noun Examples
- the act of raising something;
"he responded with a lift of his eyebrow";
"fireman learn several different raises for getting ladders up" - a ride in a car;
"he gave me a lift home" - transportation of people or goods by air (especially when other means of access are unavailable)
- plastic surgery to remove wrinkles and other signs of aging from your face;
an incision is made near the hair line and skin is pulled back and excess tissue is excised;
"some actresses have more than one face lift" - the act of giving temporary assistance
- 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
- one of the layers forming the heel of a shoe or boot
- a device worn in a shoe or boot to make the wearer look taller or to correct a shortened leg
- a powered conveyance that carries skiers up a hill
- a wave that lifts the surface of the water or ground
- the event of something being raised upward;
"an elevation of the temperature in the afternoon";
"a raising of the land resulting from volcanic activity" - the component of the aerodynamic forces acting on an airfoil that opposes gravity
- Verb Examples
- perform cosmetic surgery on someone's face
- remove from a surface;
"the detective carefully lifted some fingerprints from the table" - take off or away by decreasing;
"lift the pressure" - remove from a seedbed or from a nursery;
"lift the tulip bulbs" - remove (hair) by scalping
- put an end to;
"lift a ban";
"raise a siege" - rise upward, as from pressure or moisture;
"The floor is lifting slowly" - raise in rank or condition;
"The new law lifted many people from poverty" - invigorate or heighten;
"lift my spirits";
"lift his ego" - call to stop the hunt or to retire, as of hunting dogs
- annul by recalling or rescinding;
"He revoked the ban on smoking";
"lift an embargo";
"vacate a death sentence" - make audible;
"He lifted a war whoop" - take (root crops) out of the ground;
"lift potatoes" - fly people or goods to or from places not accessible by other means;
"Food is airlifted into Bosnia" - raise or haul up with or as if with mechanical help;
"hoist the bicycle onto the roof of the car" - take hold of something and move it to a different location;
"lift the box onto the table" - move upward;
"The fog lifted";
"The smoke arose from the forest fire";
"The mist uprose from the meadows" - move upwards;
"lift one's eyes" - raise from a lower to a higher position;
"Raise your hands";
"lift a load" - make off with belongings of others
- take illegally;
"rustle cattle" - take without referencing from someone else's writing or speech;
of intellectual property - pay off (a mortgage)
- rise up;
"The building rose before them"
| Synonym | Definition |
|---|---|
| Abandon | the trait of lacking restraint or control freedom from inhibition or worry "she danced with abandon" |
| Abet | assist or encourage, usually in some wrongdoing |
| Abrogation | the act of abrogating an official or legal cancellation |
| Abstract | a concept or idea not associated with any specific instance "he loved her only in the abstract--not in person" |
| Abstraction | a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples |
| Access | the act of approaching or entering "he gained access to the building" |
| Accession | the act of attaining or gaining access to a new office or right or position (especially the throne) "Elizabeth''s accession in 1558" |
| Accretion | (law) an increase in a beneficiary''s share in an estate (as when a co-beneficiary dies or fails to meet some condition or rejects the inheritance) |
| Accrual | the act of accumulating |
| Accruement | the act of accumulating |
View all cognitive synonyms for Lift
| Anagram | Definition |
|---|---|
| Lift | the act of raising something "he responded with a lift of his eyebrow" "fireman learn several different raises for getting ladders up" |
| Flit | a secret move (to avoid paying debts) "they did a moonlight flit" |
View English words with the unique letters used in lift. Words With The Letters Filt
| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| Bring Up | |
| Elevate | raise in rank or condition "The new law lifted many people from poverty" |
| Get Up | |
| Heave | throwing something heavy (with great effort) "he gave it a mighty heave" "he was not good at heaving passes" |
| Heave Up | |
| Heft | the property of being large in mass |
| Heft Up | |
| Hoist | lifting device for raising heavy or cumbersome objects |
| Lift | the act of raising something "he responded with a lift of his eyebrow" "fireman learn several different raises for getting ladders up" |
| Raise | the act of raising something "he responded with a lift of his eyebrow" "fireman learn several different raises for getting ladders up" |
| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| Actuation | the act of propelling |
| Propulsion | the act of propelling |
| Name | Male | Female |
|---|---|---|
| Clifton | Yes | No |
| Clift | Yes | No |
| Cliftina | No | Yes |
| Klifton | Yes | No |
| Word | Scrabble | Words With Friends | Word Chums | 4Pics1Word | Jumble |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lift (4 letters) | 7 | 8 | lift | ||
| Flit (4 letters) | 7 | 8 | lift | ||
| Filet (5 letters) | 8 +1 | 9 +1 | flite | ||
| Fillet (6 letters) | 9 +2 | 11 +3 | fillet | ||
| Fitful (6 letters) | 12 +5 | 14 +6 | ffiltu | ||
| Lifted (6 letters) | 10 +3 | 11 +3 | lifted | ||
| Futile (6 letters) | 9 +2 | 11 +3 | futile | ||
| Fitly (5 letters) | 11 +4 | 11 +3 | fitly | ||
| Flite (5 letters) | 8 +1 | 9 +1 | flite |
Lift Is In These Word Lists
- Starts With L
- Ends With T
- Spelled With / Contains Letters
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