The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Lift \Lift\ (l[i^]ft), n. [AS. lyft air. See Loft.]
   The sky; the atmosphere; the firmament. [Obs. or Scot.]
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

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.
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   2. To raise, elevate, exalt, improve, in rank, condition,
      estimation, character, etc.; -- often with up.
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            The Roman virtues lift up mortal man. --Addison.
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            Lest, being lifted up with pride.     --1 Tim. iii.
                                                  6.
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   3. To bear; to support. [Obs.] --Spenser.
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   4. To collect, as moneys due; to raise.
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   5. [Perh. a different word, and akin to Goth. hliftus thief,
      hlifan to steal, L. clepere, Gr. kle`ptein. Cf.
      Shoplifter.] To steal; to carry off by theft (esp.
      cattle); as, to lift a drove of cattle.
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   Note: In old writers, lift is sometimes used for lifted.
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               He ne'er lift up his hand but conquered. --Shak.
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   To lift up, to raise or elevate; in the Scriptures,
      specifically, to elevate upon the cross. --John viii. 28.

   To lift up the eyes. To look up; to raise the eyes, as in
      prayer. --Ps. cxxi. 1.

   To lift up the feet, to come speedily to one's relief.
      --Ps. lxxiv. 3.

   To lift up the hand.
      (a) To take an oath. --Gen. xiv. 22.
      (b) To pray. --Ps. xxviii. 2.
      (c) To engage in duty. --Heb. xii. 12.

   To lift up the hand against, to rebel against; to assault;
      to attack; to injure; to oppress. --Job xxxi. 21.

   To lift up one's head, to cause one to be exalted or to
      rejoice. --Gen. xl. 13. --Luke xxi. 28.

   To lift up the heel against, to treat with insolence or
      unkindness. --John xiii.18.

   To lift up the voice, to cry aloud; to call out. --Gen.
      xxi. 16.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Lift \Lift\ (l[i^]ft), v. i.
   1. To try to raise something; to exert the strength for
      raising or bearing.
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            Strained by lifting at a weight too heavy. --Locke.
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   2. To rise; to become or appear raised or elevated; as, the
      fog lifts; the land lifts to a ship approaching it.
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   3. [See Lift, v. t., 5.] To steal; also, to live by theft.
      --Spenser.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Lift \Lift\, n.
   1. Act of lifting; also, that which is lifted.
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   2. The space or distance through which anything is lifted;
      as, a long lift. --Bacon.
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   3. Help; assistance, as by lifting. Hence: A ride in a
      vehicle, given by the vehicle's owner to another person as
      a favor -- usually in "give a lift" or "got a lift"; as,
      to give one a lift in a wagon; Jack gave me a lift into
      town. [Colloq.]
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            The goat gives the fox a lift.        --L'Estrange.

   4. That by means of which a person or thing lifts or is
      lifted; as:
      (a) A hoisting machine; an elevator; a dumb waiter.
          [Chiefly Brit.]
      (b) An exercising machine.
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   5. A rise; a degree of elevation; as, the lift of a lock in
      canals.
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   6. A lift gate. See Lift gate, below. [Prov. Eng.]
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   7. (Naut.) A rope leading from the masthead to the extremity
      of a yard below; -- used for raising or supporting the end
      of the yard.
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   8. (Mach.) One of the steps of a cone pulley.
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   9. (Shoemaking) A layer of leather in the heel.
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   10. (Horology) That portion of the vibration of a balance
       during which the impulse is given. --Saunier.
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   11. A brightening of the spirits; encouragement; as, the
       campaign workers got a lift from the President's
       endorsement.
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   Dead lift. See under Dead. --Swift.

   Lift bridge, a kind of drawbridge, the movable part of
      which is lifted, instead of being drawn aside.

   Lift gate, a gate that is opened by lifting.

   Lift hammer. See Tilt hammer.

   Lift lock, a canal lock.

   Lift pump, a lifting pump.

   Lift tenter (Windmills), a governor for regulating the
      speed by adjusting the sails, or for adjusting the action
      of grinding machinery according to the speed.

   Lift wall (Canal Lock), the cross wall at the head of the
      lock.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Elevator \El"e*va`tor\, n. [L., one who raises up, a deliverer:
   cf. F. ['e]l['e]vateur.]
   1. One who, or that which, raises or lifts up anything.
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   2. A mechanical contrivance, usually an endless belt or chain
      with a series of scoops or buckets, for transferring grain
      to an upper loft for storage.
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   3. A cage or platform (called an elevator car) and the
      hoisting machinery in a hotel, warehouse, mine, etc., for
      conveying persons, goods, etc., to or from different
      floors or levels; -- called in England a lift; the cage
      or platform itself.
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   4. A building for elevating, storing, and discharging, grain.
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   5. (Anat.) A muscle which serves to raise a part of the body,
      as the leg or the eye.
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   6. (Surg.) An instrument for raising a depressed portion of a
      bone.
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   7. (A["e]ronautics) A movable plane or group of planes used
      to control the altitude or fore-and-aft poise or
      inclination of an airship or flying machine.
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   Elevator head, Elevator leg, & Elevator boot, the boxes
      in which the upper pulley, belt, and lower pulley,
      respectively, run in a grain elevator. [1913 Webster]

   Elevator shoes, shoes having unusually thick soles and
      heels, designed to make a person appear taller than he or
      she actually is. [PJC]

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

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, 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, lift,
       raising]
    4: a wave that lifts the surface of the water or ground [syn:
       lift, rise]
    5: a powered conveyance that carries skiers up a hill [syn: ski
       tow, ski lift, 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, lift]
    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, lift, 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,
        lift]
    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: lift, raise, heave]
    v 1: raise from a lower to a higher position; "Raise your
         hands"; "Lift a load" [syn: raise, lift, elevate,
         get up, bring up] [ant: bring down, get down, let
         down, lower, take down]
    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: lift, raise]
    4: move upward; "The fog lifted"; "The smoke arose from the
       forest fire"; "The mist uprose from the meadows" [syn:
       rise, lift, arise, move up, go up, come up,
       uprise] [ant: come down, descend, fall, go down]
    5: make audible; "He lifted a war whoop"
    6: cancel officially; "He revoked the ban on smoking"; "lift an
       embargo"; "vacate a death sentence" [syn: revoke, annul,
       lift, 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, lift]
    8: raise or haul up with or as if with mechanical help; "hoist
       the bicycle onto the roof of the car" [syn: hoist, lift,
       wind]
    9: invigorate or heighten; "lift my spirits"; "lift his ego"
       [syn: raise, lift]
    10: raise in rank or condition; "The new law lifted many people
        from poverty" [syn: lift, raise, elevate]
    11: take off or away by decreasing; "lift the pressure"
    12: rise up; "The building rose before them" [syn: rise,
        lift, rear]
    13: pay off (a mortgage)
    14: take without referencing from someone else's writing or
        speech; of intellectual property [syn: plagiarize,
        plagiarise, lift]
    15: take illegally; "rustle cattle" [syn: rustle, lift]
    16: fly people or goods to or from places not accessible by
        other means; "Food is airlifted into Bosnia" [syn:
        airlift, lift]
    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: lift,
        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, lift]

Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

374 Moby Thesaurus words for "lift":
   Caelus, Great Leap Forward, Olympian heights, Sunday drive,
   a leg up, abstract, acculturate, acme, advance, advancement,
   aerial heights, aerosphere, aggrandize, aid, air, airing,
   ameliorate, amelioration, amend, amendment, amortize, and, annex,
   annul, apex, appropriate, arise, ascend, ascent, aspire, assist,
   assistance, atmosphere, azure, bag, bang, be poised, bear, better,
   bettering, betterment, billow, biosphere, blue sky, boost, boot,
   bore, borrow, break, breakers, bring forward, buoy up, burglary,
   caelum, cancel, canopy, canopy of heaven, caper, carry, cast up,
   cerulean, charge, chop, choppiness, chopping sea, civilize, clear,
   comb, comber, comfort, conduct, confiscate, convey, cop, cope,
   copy, crab, crane, crash, crib, dash, defraud, deify, derrick,
   dignify, dirty water, disappear, discharge, discontinue, dismantle,
   dissipate, dizzy heights, drive, dumbwaiter, eagre, ebb and flow,
   ecosphere, edify, educate, elate, elevate, elevation, elevator,
   embezzle, emend, eminence, empyrean, encouragement, end, enhance,
   enhancement, enlighten, ennoble, enrich, enrichment, enshrine,
   erect, erector, escalate, escalator, ether, eugenics, euthenics,
   exalt, extort, fatten, favor, filch, firmament, flush, fly,
   forklift, forward, foster, freight, furtherance, gantry crane,
   gaseous envelope, go straight, grab, gravity wave, ground swell,
   hand, headway, heave, heaven, heavens, heavy sea, heavy swell,
   heft, height, heighten, heights, heist, helping hand, hike, hoick,
   hoist, hold up, honor, hook, hyaline, hydraulic tailgate,
   immortalize, improve, improve upon, improvement, inducement,
   inspiration, jack, jackscrew, jerk up, job, jollies, joyride, kick,
   knock up, larceny, lard, leg, leg up, lever, levitate, liberate,
   lift up, lifter, lifts, liquidate, lob, loft, lop, lug, magnify,
   make accounts square, make an improvement, make off with,
   manhandle, meliorate, melioration, mend, mending, mount,
   moving staircase, nick, nip, noosphere, nurture, pack, palm,
   pay in full, pay off, pay the bill, pay the shot, pay up, peak,
   perk up, pick up, pickup, pilfer, pinch, plagiarize, poach, pocket,
   popple, preferment, progress, progression, promote, promotion,
   purloin, purloining, quiver, raise, raise up, rear, rear up,
   reassurance, recall, recovery, redeem, refine upon, reform, relief,
   repeal, rescind, restoration, retire, reverse, revival, ride,
   riffle, rip-off, ripple, rise, rise and fall, rising ground,
   robbery, rocket, roll, roller, rough water, run away with, rush,
   rush of emotion, rustle, satisfy, scend, scrounge, sea, send,
   sensation, set up, settle, shiver, shoplift, shudder, sky, smash,
   snare, snatch, snitch, soar, socialize, spin, square,
   square accounts, starry heaven, steal, stealage, stealing, steep,
   stick up, stimulus, stop, straighten out, stratosphere,
   strike a balance, succor, support, surf, surge, surge of emotion,
   swell, swindle, swipe, tackle, take, take away, take up, terminate,
   the blue, the blue serene, theft, thieve, thievery, thieving,
   thrill, throw up, tidal bore, tidal wave, tide wave, tingle,
   tingling, titillation, toss, tote, touch, tower, transfigure,
   transform, transport, tremor, tremor of excitement, trough,
   tsunami, undulate, undulation, up, upbeat, upbuoy, upcast, upgrade,
   upheave, uphoist, uphold, uplift, upping, upraise, uprear, uprise,
   upswing, upthrow, uptrend, upward mobility, vanish, vantage ground,
   vantage point, vault, vault of heaven, void, waft, walk off with,
   water wave, wave, wavelet, welkin, whirl, whisk, white horses,
   whitecaps, windlass, wing, withdraw, zenith