lift

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noun

1 (BrE) for taking people/goods between floors ⇨ See also ↑elevator

ADJECTIVE

▪ private, service

▪

The hotel has a private lift linking it to the beach.

▪ baggage, goods, passenger, wheelchair

▪ electric, hydraulic

VERB + LIFT

▪ go down in, go up in, take

▪

We took the lift down to the ground floor.

▪ operate

LIFT + VERB

▪ serve sth

▪

The lift serves the top four floors of the building.

▪ arrive

LIFT + NOUN

▪ button

▪ doors

▪ shaft

▪ attendant, operator

2 for taking people up mountains, etc.

ADJECTIVE

▪ ski

▪ chair (usually chairlift), gondola (BrE)

VERB + LIFT

▪ take

▪ operate

LIFT + NOUN

▪ car

▪ operator

▪ pass

▪

You'll need your lift pass for the ski lifts.

3 (BrE) free ride in a car, etc. ⇨ See also ↑ride

ADJECTIVE

▪ free

VERB + LIFT

▪ ask for, hitch, thumb

▪

We stood by the roadside and thumbed a lift.

▪ give sb, offer sb

▪ accept

▪

Don't accept lifts from strangers.

PHRASES

▪ a lift back, a lift home

▪

He offered us a lift home.

4 feeling of increased happiness/excitement

ADJECTIVE

▪ big, great, huge, real

▪

Winning the semi-final gave the team a huge lift.

▪ emotional

VERB + LIFT

▪ give sb

▪ get

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verb

1 raise/move sb/sth

ADVERB

▪ almost, half

▪

He hugged her, almost lifting her off the ground.

▪ fractionally, a little, slightly

▪ slowly

▪ sharply

▪

Her head lifted sharply

▪ carefully, gently, gingerly

▪

Carefully lift the cake off the tray and cool on a wire rack.

▪ easily, effortlessly

▪ bodily

▪

She was lifted bodily aboard by two sailors.

▪ back, down, out, up

▪

She lifted back the sheet.

VERB + LIFT

▪ can barely, can hardly

▪

The box was so heavy I could barely lift it.

▪ try to

▪ manage to

▪ be too heavy to

PREPOSITION

▪ above

▪

He stood, legs apart, arms lifted above his head.

▪ down

▪

She leaned on him and he half lifted her down the stairs.

▪ from

▪

He felt as if an enormous weight had been lifted from his shoulders.

▪ into

▪

The heavy beams were lifted into place.

▪ off

▪

She lifted the book up off the table.

▪ out of

▪

He lifted the baby out of its cradle.

▪ over

▪

She lifted the child over the fence.

▪ to

▪

Juliet nodded, lifting her face to David's.

2 remove a law/rule

ADVERB

▪ completely

▪ partially

▪

The police managed to restore calm and the curfew was partially lifted.

VERB + LIFT

▪ agree to, decide to, vote to

▪

The government decided to lift the ban on arms exports.

▪ refuse to

Lift is used with these nouns as the subject: ↑brow, ↑cloud, ↑darkness, ↑depression, ↑eye, ↑eyebrow, ↑fog, ↑gloom, ↑hand, ↑mist, ↑mood, ↑mouth, ↑shoulder, ↑spirit, ↑win

Lift is used with these nouns as the object: ↑arm, ↑bag, ↑ban, ↑barrier, ↑beaker, ↑binoculars, ↑blockade, ↑boycott, ↑brow, ↑burden, ↑ceiling, ↑censorship, ↑chin, ↑control, ↑cover, ↑cup, ↑curfew, ↑curse, ↑dividend, ↑dress, ↑earnings, ↑embargo, ↑eye, ↑eyebrow, ↑eyelid, ↑fist, ↑flap, ↑floorboard, ↑foot, ↑game, ↑glass, ↑gloom, ↑hand, ↑hatch, ↑head, ↑hip, ↑immunity, ↑injunction, ↑leg, ↑lid, ↑martial law, ↑mood, ↑morale, ↑moratorium, ↑phone, ↑prohibition, ↑rate, ↑receiver, ↑restriction, ↑sanction, ↑siege, ↑skirt, ↑spirit, ↑suitcase, ↑tariff, ↑threat, ↑top, ↑trophy, ↑veil, ↑weight