Lift

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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
    • Paternoster lift, a type of lift using a continuous chain of cars which do not stop
    • Patient lift, or Hoyer lift, mobile lift, ceiling lift, a lift to assist a caregiver for a disabled patient
    • 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
  • Forklift, a powered industrial truck used to lift and move materials short distances
  • Scissor lift
    , a type of aerial work platform
  • 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
  • Stairlift
    , a mechanical device to help people with disabilities get up stairs
  • Heel lift, a shoe insert to increase the height of the wearer

Sport

Science and technology

  • Lift (force), in fluid dynamics, a force generated by an object moving through a fluid
    • Lift coefficient, a coefficient that relates the lift generated by a lifting body to other parameters
  • 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
  • Light-Induced Fluorescence Transient
    , a device to remotely measure chlorophyll fluorescence in plants

Mathematics

Cosmetics

  • Shoe lifts
    , a removable shoe insert
    • Elevator shoes
      , shoes that have thickened sections of the insoles
  • Plastic surgery, surgery to lift the skin

Media

Films

Music

Albums

Songs

Other uses

  • LIFT (nonprofit), a nonprofit anti-poverty organization
  • LIFT (airline), South African Domestic Airline
  • Lead-in fighter trainer
    , a type of advanced military training aircraft
  • Legal Information for Families Today
    (LIFT), nonprofit that provides legal information in New York State, US
  • 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
  • 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