Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Lift \Lift\, n.
   1. Act of lifting; also, that which is lifted.

   2. The space or distance through which anything is lifted;
      as, a long lift. --Bacon.

   3. Help; assistance, as by lifting; as, to give one a lift in
      a wagon. [Colloq.]

            The goat gives the fox a lift.        --L'Estrange.

Lift \Lift\ (l[i^]ft), n. [AS. lyft air. See {Loft}.]
   The sky; the atmosphere; the firmament. [Obs. or Scot.]

Lift \Lift\ (l[i^]ft), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Lifted}; p. pr. &
   vb. n. {Lifting}.] [Icel. lypta, fr. lopt air; akin to Sw.
   lyfta to lift, Dan. l["o]fte, G. l["u]ften; -- prop., to
   raise into the air. See {Loft}, and cf. 1st {Lift}.]
   1. 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.

Lift \Lift\ (l[i^]ft), v. i.
   1. To try to raise something; to exert the strength for
      raising or bearing.

            Strained by lifting at a weight too heavy. --Locke.

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

   3. [See {Lift}, v. t., 5.] To live by theft. --Spenser.

Source : WordNet®

lift
     n 1: the act of giving temporary assistance
     2: the component of the aerodynamic forces acting on an airfoil
        that opposes gravity [syn: {aerodynamic lift}]
     3: the event of something being raised upward; "an elevation of
        the temperature in the afternoon"; "a raising of the land
        resulting from volcanic activity" [syn: {elevation}, {raising}]
     4: a wave that lifts the surface of the water or ground [syn: {rise}]
     5: a powered conveyance that carries skiers up a hill [syn: {ski
        tow}, {ski lift}]
     6: a device worn in a shoe or boot to make the wearer look
        taller or to correct a shortened leg
     7: one of the layers forming the heel of a shoe or boot
     8: 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 [syn: {elevator}]
     9: 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" [syn: {face lift},
         {facelift}, {face lifting}, {cosmetic surgery}, {rhytidectomy},
         {rhytidoplasty}, {nip and tuck}]
     10: transportation of people or goods by air (especially when
         other means of access are unavailable) [syn: {airlift}]
     11: a ride in a car; "he gave me a lift home"
     12: the act of raising something; "he responded with a lift of
         his eyebrow"; "fireman learn several different raises for
         getting ladders up" [syn: {raise}, {heave}]

lift
     v 1: raise from a lower to a higher position; "Raise your hands";
          "Lift a load" [syn: {raise}, {elevate}, {get up}, {bring
          up}] [ant: {lower}]
     2: take hold of something and move it to a different location;
        "lift the box onto the table"
     3: move upwards; "lift one's eyes" [syn: {raise}]
     4: move upward; "The fog lifted"; "The smoke arose from the
        forest fire"; "The mist uprose from the meadows" [syn: {rise},
         {arise}, {move up}, {go up}, {come up}, {uprise}] [ant: {descend}]
     5: make audible; "He lifted a war whoop"
     6: annul by recalling or rescinding; "He revoked the ban on
        smoking"; "lift an embargo"; "vacate a death sentence"
        [syn: {revoke}, {annul}, {countermand}, {reverse}, {repeal},
         {overturn}, {rescind}, {vacate}]
     7: make off with belongings of others [syn: {pilfer}, {cabbage},
         {purloin}, {pinch}, {abstract}, {snarf}, {swipe}, {hook},
         {sneak}, {filch}, {nobble}]
     8: raise or haul up with or as if with mechanical help; "hoist
        the bicycle onto the roof of the car" [syn: {hoist}, {wind}]
     9: invigorate or heighten; "lift my spirits"; "lift his ego"
        [syn: {raise}]
     10: raise in rank or condition; "The new law lifted many people
         from poverty" [syn: {raise}, {elevate}]
     11: take off or away by decreasing; "lift the pressure"
     12: rise up; "The building rose before them" [syn: {rise}, {rear}]
     13: pay off (a mortgage)
     14: take without referencing from someone else's writing or
         speech; of intellectual property [syn: {plagiarize}, {plagiarise}]
     15: take illegally; "rustle cattle" [syn: {rustle}]
     16: fly people or goods to or from places not accessible by
         other means; "Food is airlifted into Bosnia" [syn: {airlift}]
     17: take (root crops) out of the ground; "lift potatoes"
     18: call to stop the hunt or to retire, as of hunting dogs
     19: rise upward, as from pressure or moisture; "The floor is
         lifting slowly"
     20: put an end to; "lift a ban"; "raise a siege" [syn: {raise}]
     21: remove (hair) by scalping
     22: remove from a seedbed or from a nursery; "lift the tulip
         bulbs"
     23: remove from a surface; "the detective carefully lifted some
         fingerprints from the table"
     24: perform cosmetic surgery on someone's face [syn: {face-lift}]