Lifting

Quick meaning: Lifting is a noun meaning The action or process by which something is lifted; elevation.

Meaning

The action or process by which something is lifted; elevation.

More Meanings

1. (sports) Weightlifting; a form of exercise in which weights are lifted.
2. (medicine) Plastic surgery for tightening facial tissues and improving the facial appearance.
3. (mathematics) A certain operation on a measure space; see lifting theory.
4. Synonym of heavy lifting (“the most effort etc.”)
5. present participle and gerund of lift

Example Sentences

The word "might" is certainly doing some lifting there!

It was then as much the scene of continual spreaths, liftings, reavings, and herriments, as the Border country itself.

2008, Lou Schuler, "Foreward", in Nate Green, Built for Show, page xi When I started lifting in 1970, I was the skinniest thirteen-year-old I knew.

For some moments he stood there contemplating the little fellows as they went about their work in their business-like way, taking no notice of his presence other than the liftings of their heads now and then, as if to ascertain if he were still there.

Word Forms

• liftings

Synonyms for lifting

Depending on context, synonyms include weightlifting, facelift.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include rise, raising, arise, elevator, elevate, get up.

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