lifting
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lifting
- /ˈlɪf.tɪŋ/ UK, US
Rhymes with -ɪftɪŋ
noun liftings
- The action or process by which something is lifted; elevation 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.
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Weightlifting; a form of exercise in which weights are lifted.
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.
Similar: weightlifting
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Plastic surgery for tightening facial tissues and improving the facial appearance.
Similar: facelift
- Theft. It was then as much the scene of continual spreaths, liftings, reavings, and herriments, as the Border country itself.
- A certain operation on a measure space; see lifting theory.
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Synonym of heavy lifting (“the most effort etc.”)
The word "might" is certainly doing some lifting there!
Similar: heavy lifting
verb
- present participle and gerund of lift
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: rise, raising, arise, elevator, elevate, get up, bring up, move up, elevation, raise, heave, go up, come up, overturn, reverse, swipe
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noun facelift
| Español | lifting |
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| Français | lifting |
| Italiano | ritidectomia, ritidoplastica, lifting |
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