lifting

English

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /ˈlɪf.tɪŋ/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -ɪftɪŋ

Noun

lifting (countable and uncountable, plural liftings)

1. The action or process by which something is lifted; elevation
   • 1946, Eugene E. Thomas, Brotherhood of Mt. Shasta:

     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.

2. (sports) Weightlifting; a form of exercise in which weights are lifted.

   Synonym: weightlifting

   • 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.

3. (medicine) Plastic surgery for tightening facial tissues and improving the facial appearance.

   Synonym: facelift

4. Theft.
   • 1836, Tait's Edinburgh Magazine, volume 3, page 426:

     It was then as much the scene of continual spreaths, liftings, reavings, and herriments, as the Border country itself.

5. (mathematics) A certain operation on a measure space; see lifting theory.
6. Synonym of heavy lifting (“the most effort etc.”)

   The word "might" is certainly doing some lifting there!

Derived terms

• car-lifting
• commutant lifting theorem
• ego lifting
• heavy lifting
• lifting agent
• lifting boss
• lifting bridge
• lifting chalk
• lifting gas
• lifting shop
• lifting span
• lifting the exponent
• shoplifting
• star lifting
• tracklifting
• type lifting (computing)
• weightlifting

Translations

weightlifting — see weightlifting

facelift

• Bulgarian: ли́фтинг m (lífting)
• Dutch: opwaardering f
• French: lifting (fr) m
• Italian: ritidectomia (it) f, ritidoplastica (it) f, lifting (it) m
• Polish: lifting (pl) m inan
• Spanish: lifting (es) m

Verb

lifting

1. present participle and gerund of lift

Derived terms

• liftingly
• powerlifting
• shirtlifting
• slifting
• unlifting

References

• lifting on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• fliting

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English lifting.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lif.tiŋ/

• Audio (France (Lyon)):

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• Audio (France (Vosges)):

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Noun

lifting m (plural liftings)

1. facelift

   Synonym: lifting de visage

Further reading

• “lifting”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

Irish

Etymology

From Middle Irish lipting, from Old Norse lypting (compare Norwegian Nynorsk lyfting).

Noun

lifting f (genitive singular liftinge, nominative plural liftingí)

1. (nautical, literary) taffrail

   Synonyms: rancás, teafrail

Declension

Declension of lifting (second declension)

bare forms singular plural nominative lifting liftingí vocative a lifting a liftingí genitive liftinge liftingí dative lifting liftingí forms with the definite article singular plural nominative an lifting na liftingí genitive na liftinge na liftingí dative leis an lifting don lifting leis na liftingí

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “lifting”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla [Irish–English Dictionary], Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “lipting”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Italian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English lifting.

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Noun

lifting m (invariable)

1. (surgery) face-lift, lifting

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from English lifting.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlif.tiŋk/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -iftiŋk
• Syllabification: lif‧ting

Noun

lifting m inan

1. facelift (plastic surgery to the face)

Declension

Declension of lifting

	singular	plural
nominative	lifting	liftingi
genitive	liftingu	liftingów
dative	liftingowi	liftingom
accusative	lifting	liftingi
instrumental	liftingiem	liftingami
locative	liftingu	liftingach
vocative	liftingu	liftingi

Further reading

• “lifting”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego‎^[1] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• “lifting”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[2] (in Polish)

Romanian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English lifting.

Noun

lifting n (plural liftinguri)

1. lifting

Declension

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	lifting	liftingul	liftinguri	liftingurile
genitive-dative	lifting	liftingului	liftinguri	liftingurilor
vocative	liftingule		liftingurilor

Spanish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈliftin/ [ˈlif.t̪ĩn], /ˈliftinɡ/ [ˈlif.t̪ĩŋɡ]
• Rhymes: -iftin, -iftinɡ
• Syllabification: lif‧ting

Noun

lifting m (plural liftings)

1. lifting, facelift

Usage notes

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.

Further reading

• “lifting”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025