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Lift or LIFT may refer to:
Physical devices
- Elevator or lift, a device used for raising and lowering people or goods
- Rack lift, a type of elevator
- Ski lift, an aerial or surface lift for uphill transport
- Space elevator, a hypothetical structure for transporting material from a planet's surface into outer space
- Wheelchair lift or platform lift, a powered device to assist a person in a wheelchair
- Patient lift or Hoyer lift, mobile lift, ceiling lift, or patient lift, a lift to assist a caregiver for a disabled patient
- Forklift, a powered industrial truck used to lift and move materials short distances
- Body lift, an adaptation (of fixed height) to lift the automobile body from the frame
- Suspension lift, a modification raising the suspension of the automobile
Science and technology
- Lift (force), a mechanical force generated by an object moving through a fluid
- Lift (soaring), rising air used by soaring birds and glider, hang glider and paraglider pilots for soaring flight
- Lift (data mining), a measure of the performance of a model at segmenting the population
- Lift (web framework), a Web application framework for Scala, which runs on the Java Virtual Machine
- Lift coefficient, a coefficient that relates the lift generated by a lifting body to the fluid density around the body, the fluid velocity and an associated reference area
Mathematics
- Lift (mathematics), a morphism h from X to Z such that gh = f
- Homotopy lifting property, a unique path over a map
- Covering graph or lift
Cosmetics
- Elevator shoe, an insole device that makes a person appear taller
- Plastic surgery, surgery to lift the skin
- Rhytidectomy or face lift, a type of plastic surgery
- Mastopexy or breast lift, a type of plastic surgery
Media
- London International Festival of Theatre (LIFT)
- De Lift (The Lift), a 1983 Dutch horror film by Dick Maas
Music
- Lift (band), a German rock band
- Lift (Audio Adrenaline album) (2001)
- Lift (Love and Rockets album) (1998)
- "Lift" (Poets of the Fall song), (2004)
- Lift (Sister Hazel album) (2004)
- Lift (Shannon Noll album) (2005)
- Lift (Sean Tyas single) (2006)
- "Lift", an unreleased song by Radiohead
- Retake or lift, a symbol used in musical notation
Other uses
- LIFT (nonprofit), nonprofit anti-poverty organization
- Legal Information for Families Today (LIFT), nonprofit that provides legal information in New York State
- Lift (soft drink), a brand of carbonated beverage produced and marketed by the Coca-Cola Company
- Airlift, in logistics, the act of transporting people or cargo from point to point using aircraft
- Figure skating lifts, movements in pair skating and ice dancing
- Hitchhiking, a form of transport in which the traveller tries to get a lift (or ride) from another traveller
- Lift, a special type of arrow in the video game engine StepMania
See also
- Deadlift, a powerlifting exercise used in weight training
- Belt manlift, a belt with rungs and steps for moving people vertically
- Lyft, a ridesharing company
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