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Term: lift

All the wordplay possibilities with the word "lift": spelling, phonetic, and semantic.

lift

Definitions

Noun

  1. The act of giving temporary assistance
  2. The component of the aerodynamic forces acting on an airfoil that opposes gravity
  3. The event of something being raised upward
  4. A wave that lifts the surface of the water or ground
  5. A powered conveyance that carries skiers up a hill
  6. A device worn in a shoe or boot to make the wearer look taller or to correct a shortened leg
  7. One of the layers forming the heel of a shoe or boot
  8. 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
  9. Plastic surgery to remove wrinkles and other signs of aging from your face; an incision is made near the hair line and skin is pulled back and excess tissue is excised
  10. Transportation of people or goods by air (especially when other means of access are unavailable)
  11. A ride in a car
  12. The act of raising something

Verb

  1. Raise from a lower to a higher position
  2. Take hold of something and move it to a different location
  3. Move upwards
  4. Move upward
  5. Make audible
  6. Cancel officially
  7. Make off with belongings of others
  8. Raise or haul up with or as if with mechanical help
  9. Invigorate or heighten
  10. Raise in rank or condition
  11. Take off or away by decreasing
  12. Rise up
  13. Pay off (a mortgage)
  14. Take without referencing from someone else's writing or speech; of intellectual property
  15. Take illegally
  16. Fly people or goods to or from places not accessible by other means
  17. Take (root crops) out of the ground
  18. Call to stop the hunt or to retire, as of hunting dogs
  19. Rise upward, as from pressure or moisture
  20. Put an end to
  21. Remove (hair) by scalping
  22. Remove from a seedbed or from a nursery
  23. Remove from a surface
  24. Perform cosmetic surgery on someone's face

As a Fragment

Words that contain the term "lift".

# Word Syllables Freq
1 lifted 2 43
2 lift 1 23
3 lifting 2 8
4 lifters 2 4
5 clifton 2 3
6 lifts 1 2
7 airlift 2 1
8 fork-lift 2 1
9 forklift 2 1
10 uplift 2 1
11 aerolift 3 0
12 aerolifts 3 0
13 airlifted 3 0
14 airlifter 3 0
15 airlifters 3 0
16 airlifting 3 0
17 airlifts 2 0
18 barclift 2 0
19 boatlift 2 0
20 boatlift's 2 0
21 boatlifts 2 0
22 clift 1 0
23 facelift 2 0
24 forklifts 2 0
25 lifter 2 0
26 liftin 2 0
27 liftoff 2 0
28 lifton 2 0
29 sealift 2 0
30 shoplift 2 0
31 shoplifter 3 0
32 shoplifters 3 0
33 shoplifting 3 0
34 shoplifts 2 0
35 uplifted 3 0
36 uplifting 3 0
37 weightlifter 3 0
38 weightlifters 3 0
39 weightlifting 3 0

Sounds Like

Words that sound like the term "lift".

# Word Syllables Freq
1 left 1 480
2 laughed 1 51
3 aloft 2 3
4 cleft 1 2
5 loft 1 2
6 leafed 1 1
7 bluffed 1 0
8 clift 1 0
9 fluffed 1 0
10 luffed 1 0
11 luft 1 0

Spelled Like

Words that are spelled similarly to the term "lift".

# Word Syllables Freq
1 list 1 133
2 lifted 2 43
3 lit 1 17
4 slit 1 6
5 lifts 1 2
6 loft 1 2
7 litz 1 2
8 uplift 2 1
9 tift 1 1
10 rift 1 1
11 clift 1 0
12 lifton 2 0
13 liftin 2 0
14 lifter 2 0
15 sift 1 0
16 luft 1 0
17 litt 1 0
18 lits 1 0
19 lite 1 0
20 lita 2 0

Words That Follow

Words that often follow the term "lift" in a sentence.

# Word Syllables Freq

Words That Precede

Words that often precede the term "lift" in a sentence.

# Word Syllables Freq

Statistically Associated

Words that are statistically associated with "lift" in the same piece of text.

# Word Syllables Freq
1 first 1 2
2 allowed 2 2

Consonant Match

Words that contain the same consonants as the term "lift".

# Word Syllables Freq
1 left 1 480
2 left-hand 2 5
3 left-handed 3 3
4 loft 1 2
5 left's 1 0
6 left-brace 2 0
7 left-winger 3 0
8 left-wingers 3 0
9 loft's 1 0
10 luft 1 0

Results:

Term

Definitions: 36

Fragments: 39

Sound Alikes: 11

Spelled Like: 20

Words that Follow: 0

Words that Precede: 0

Statistically Associated: 2

Consonant Matches: 10

Freq: The frequency is a relative score of how often the word appears in standard English text.

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