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** English
[2010]
*** Etymology
From [en].
*** Pronunciation
- [ŭp-lĭftʹ] ; [en]
- [ŭpʹlĭft] ; [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
*** Verb
[en-verb]
1. To raise something or someone to a higher physical , social , moral , intellectual , spiritual or emotional level .
2. * [passage=Whether you find it by your power as a man, or because, being near the gods, a god has whispered you. UPLIFT our State; think upon your fame; your coming brought us luck, be lucky to us still, remember that it is better to rule over men than over a waste place, since neither walled town nor ship is anything if it be empty and no man within it.]
3. * {{ quote-journal | en | year=1986 | journal=The Architectural Review | volume=180 | page=82
|passage=They recognised that their free-lay properties were just right for
premises where there had to be easy access to underfloor cables or where
office layouts needed to be readily changed without having to UPLIFT the
carpet every time.}}
1. * [en]
1. [en] To raise (a nonsentient species) into sentience .
2. * [en]
2. [en] To aggravate ; to increase .
3. * [en]
4. [en] To be accepted for carriage on a flight.
5. [en] To remove (a child) from a damaging home environment by a social welfare organization.
6. * [en]
7. [en] To remove (a document ) from its current possessor and take it into one's own possession .
**** Translations
[to raise something or someone to a higher level]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Czech: [cs] , [cs]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr] , [fr] , [fr] , [fr]
- Greek: [el]
- Italian: [it] , [it]
- Persian: [fa]
- Polish: [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru] , [ru]
- Spanish: [es] , [es] , [es] , [es] , [es]
- Turkish: [tr]
- Ukrainian: [uk]
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*** Noun
[~]
1. The act or result of uplifting (in various senses).
2. * [en]
3. * [en]
4. [en] A tectonic upheaval , especially one that takes place in the process of mountain building .
5. * [en]
6. * {{ quote-book | en |
series=Proceeding of the International School of Physics "Enrico Fermi"|
seriesvolume=course 85| title=Earthquakes: Observation, Theory and
Interpretation| year=1982| publisher=North-Holland Publishing Company|
page=517|
pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=kRY7AAAAQBAJ&pg=PA517&dq=%22downlift%22&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjmue2_9OGJAxXe4skDHVx0O0UQ6AF6BAgMEAI#v=onepage&q=%22downlift%22&f=false|
text=This is explained as an UPLIFT in the coast at a rate of 16.2 mm/y in the
period before 1900, a downlift of 2.8 mm/y in the period 1900-1906 and a rapid
«sinking» of the coast at 22.7 mm/y in the 24 months before the earthquake.
}}
1. [en] The picking up and load ing of goods to be transport ed by a mover .
2. [en] A brassiere that raises the breast s.
3. * [1=en]
4. [en] An increase in a fine or penalty due to aggravating circumstances.
5. * [en]
**** Derived terms
[en]
**** Related terms
[en]
**** Translations
[act of being uplifted]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
[trans-bottom]
[tectonic upheaval]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- French: [fr]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Spanish: [es]
[trans-bottom]
[brassiere that raises the breasts]
- Bulgarian: [bg] , [bg]
- French: [fr]
[trans-bottom]
**** See also
[en]
*** References
- [R:MWO]
- [id=474]
- [id=256]
*** Further reading
- [uplift (science fiction)]
*** Anagrams
- [en]
[en] [en]