• Danish: løft
• Finnish: noste, nosto
• French: portance
• German: Auftrieb
• Swedish: lyft

• Danish: løfte, hæve
• Dutch: opheffen
• Finnish: nostaa
• German: heben, anheben
• Hungarian: emel
• Irish: tóg
• Old English: hebban
• Portuguese: elevar, erguer
• Slovak: zdvihnúť, zodvihnúť

• Danish: stjæle
• German: klauen, stehlen

Bosnian

Etymology

From lift.

Noun

lift s (p: liftovi)

1. lift
2. elevator

Croatian

Etymology

From lift.

Noun

1. lift
2. elevator

Declension

Danish

Noun

lift

1. The non-commercial act of transporting someone in a vehicle: ride
2. boost
3. carrycot

Dutch

Pronunciation

Noun

lift

1. an elevator
2. The non-commercial act of transporting someone in a vehicle: ride

German

Noun

Lift

1. an elevator

Serbian

Etymology

From lift.

Noun

lift s (p: liftovi)

1. lift
2. elevator

Cyrillic spelling

• лифт

Slovak

Noun

lift , lifty p

lift stem

liftu

1. an elevator, lift

Volapük

Noun

lift

1. an elevator
2. altitude adjustor

Lift may mean:

• Lift (force), a mechanical force generated by a solid object moving through a fluid
• Lift (soaring), rising air used by soaring birds and glider, hang glider and paraglider pilots for soaring flight
• Lift (soft drink), a brand of carbonated beverage produced and marketed by the Coca-Cola Company
• Lift (data mining), a measure of the performance of a model at segmenting the population
• Lift (mathematics), a morphism h from X to Z such that gh = f
• Lift (web framework), for Scala and Java programming like Ruby on Rails
• LIFT Conference, a conference about the challenges and opportunities of technology in society
• London International Festival of Theatre (LIFT)
• De Lift (The Lift), a 1983 horror film by Dick Maas

in music:

• Lift (Audio Adrenaline album) (2001)
• Lift (Love and Rockets album) (1998)
• "Lift" (Poets of the Fall song), a 2004 single
• Lift (Sister Hazel album) (2004)
• Lift (Shannon Noll album) (2005)
  • "Lift" (Shannon Noll song), the title track of Shannon Noll's album of the same name

Lift may also refer to:

• Airlift, in logistics, the act of transporting people or cargo from point to point using aircraft
• Elevator, called a lift in British English, a device used for raising and lowering people or goods
  • Rack lift, a type of elevator
  • Ski lift, an aerial or surface lift for uphill transport
  • Space elevator, a hypothetical structure for transporting material from a planet's surface into space
  • Wheelchair lift (also called a "platform lift"), a powered device to assist a person in a wheelchair in passing a vertical barrier.
• Elevator shoe, an insole device that makes a person appear taller
• Figure skating lifts
• Forklift, a trucking device
• Hitchhiking, a form of transport in which the traveller tries to get a lift (or ride) from another traveller
• Suspension lift, an automobile modification to increase the ride height
• Homotopy lifting property, in mathematics, a unique path over a map
• Retake or lift, a symbol used in musical notation
• LIFT (Logically Integrated FORTRAN Translator), a program for the UNIVAC 1108 that converted FORTRAN II source code to FORTRAN V source code

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