lift

How to sign: raise from a lower to a higher position
"Raise your hands"; "Lift a load";

See also: pick up, lift up, gather up

Similiar / Same: raise, elevate, get up, bring up

Categories: displace, move

Within this category: chin, get up, heighten, hike, hoist, hoist, hoist, jack, kick up, levitate, pick up, pinnacle, pump, raise, rear, shoulder, skid, trice, underlay

lift

How to sign: the event of something being raised upward
"an elevation of the temperature in the afternoon"; "a raising of the land resulting from volcanic activity";

Similiar / Same: elevation, raising

Categories: ascension, ascent, rise, rising

lift

How to sign: annul by recalling or rescinding
"He revoked the ban on smoking"; "lift an embargo"; "vacate a death sentence";

Similiar / Same: countermand, repeal, rescind, revoke, annul, vacate, reverse, overturn

Categories: cancel, strike down

Within this category: renege

lift

How to sign: 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

Similiar / Same: elevator

Categories: lifting device

Within this category: dumbwaiter, freight elevator, paternoster

lift

How to sign: move upward
"The fog lifted"; "The smoke arose from the forest fire"; "The mist uprose from the meadows";

See also: rise up, surface, come up, rise

Similiar / Same: rise, move up, go up, arise, come up, uprise

Categories: go, locomote, move, travel

Within this category: chandelle, climb, go up, rise, rocket, scend, soar, steam, uplift