verb

• (ambitransitive) To raise or rise.
  "The fog eventually lifted, leaving the streets clear."
• (ambitransitive) To raise or rise.
  "Graham secured victory with five minutes left, coolly lifting the ball over Asmir Begovic."
• (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."
• (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)."

noun

• (UK, Australia, New Zealand, India, puristic elsewhere) Mechanical device for vertically transporting goods or people between floors in a building.
  "Take the lift to the fourth floor."
• (measurement) The difference in elevation between the upper pool and lower pool of a waterway, separated by lock.
• (historical slang) A thief.
  "The lift came into the shop dressed like a country gentleman, but was careful not to have a cloak about him, so that the tradesman could see he had no opportunity to conceal any goods about his person."
• (dance) The lifting of a dance partner into the air.

noun

• (UK dialectal, chiefly Scotland) Air.
• (UK dialectal, chiefly Scotland) The sky; the heavens; firmament; atmosphere.
  "No, no, Leddy! the sun maun be up in the lift whan I venture to her den."