English Dictionary

lift

IPA（発音記号）

/lɪft/

動詞

自動詞 他動詞 俗語 くだけた表現 廃用

(transitive, intransitive) To raise or rise. / (transitive, slang) To steal. / (transitive, slang) To source directly without acknowledgement; to plagiarise. / (transitive, slang) To arrest (a person).

日本語の意味

（transitive, intransitive）上げる、持ち上げる、昇ること（物体が上へ移動する） / （transitive, slang）盗む / （transitive, slang）他者の情報などを無断引用する、盗作する / （transitive, slang）逮捕する

Please lift the heavy box onto the shelf before you go.

出かける前に、その重い箱を棚の上に持ち上げてください。

意味（1）

(transitive, intransitive) To raise or rise.

The fog eventually lifted, leaving the streets clear.

意味（2）

(transitive, slang) To steal.

Kamal is out with twenty men to raise the Border side, And he has lifted the Colonel's mare that is the Colonel's pride.

意味（3）

(transitive, slang) To source directly without acknowledgement; to plagiarise.

Based on a similarity across a range of Anglo-Indian entries in these three dictionaries, it appears that (along with other lexis) Barrère and Leland (1898) copied this entry from Hotten (1864), who had in turn lifted it directly from Stocqueler (1848).

意味（4）

(transitive, slang) To arrest (a person).

Maybe the police lifted him and he's in Castlereagh [Interrogation Centre] because he'd been lifted three or four times previously and took to Castlereagh. They used to come in and raid the house and take him away.

意味（5）

(transitive) To remove (a ban, restriction, etc.).

意味（6）

(transitive) To alleviate, to lighten (pressure, tension, stress, etc.)

The Gunners boss has been heavily criticised for his side's poor start to the Premier League season but this result helps lift the pressure.

意味（7）

(transitive) to cause to move upwards.

Graham secured victory with five minutes left, coolly lifting the ball over Asmir Begovic.

意味（8）

(informal, intransitive) To lift weights; to weight-lift.

She lifts twice a week at the gym.

意味（9）

To try to raise something; to exert the strength for raising or bearing.

strained by lifting at a weight too heavy

意味（10）

To elevate or improve in rank, condition, etc.; often with up.

The Roman virtues lift up mortal man.

意味（11）

(obsolete) To bear; to support.

Th' earth him underneath Did grone, as feeble so great load to lift.

意味（12）

To collect, as moneys due; to raise.

意味（13）

(programming) To transform (a function) into a corresponding function in a different context.

Finally, we can lift a partial function into a regular (total) function that returns an Option or a Some(value) when the partial function is defined for the input argument or None when it isn't.

意味（14）

(finance) To buy a security or other asset previously offered for sale.

意味（15）

(hunting, transitive) To take (hounds) off the existing scent and move them to another spot.

I lifted the hounds (hoping to catch the leading ones there) to the far side of Hallaton Thorns.

lifts （ present singular third-person ）

lifting （ participle present ）

lifted （ past ）

lift （ obsolete past rare regional ）

lifted （ participle past ）

lift （ obsolete participle past rare regional ）

yleft （ obsolete participle past ）