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

• A specific way of lifting a barbell, dumbbell(s), kettlebell, or other piece of sporting equipment in a strength sport (e.g. weightlifting, weight training, powerlifting), such as
  • clean-and-jerk, snatch, deadlift, squat, bench press, military press, clean-and-press, dumbbell curl, fly, calf raise, two hands anyhow
• Figure skating lifts, movements in pair skating and ice dancing
• Sky Paragliders Lift, a Czech paraglider design

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

• 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

• Shoe lifts, a removable shoe insert
  • Elevator shoes, shoes that have thickened sections of the insoles
• 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)

Films

• The Lift, a 1983 Dutch horror film by Dick Maas
• Lift (2021 film), a 2021 Indian Tamil-language horror drama film
• Lift (2024 film), an American heist comedy film

Music

• Lift (band), a German rock band

Albums

• Lift (Audio Adrenaline album) or the title song, 2001
• Lift (Dave Gunning album), 2015
• Lift (Love and Rockets album) or the title song, 1998
• Lift (Shannon Noll album) or the title song (see below), 2005
• Lift (Sister Hazel album), 2004
• Lift: Live at the Village Vanguard, by Chris Potter, or the title song, 2004
• Lift, by Onehundredhours, 2001

Songs

• "Lift" (Poets of the Fall song), 2004
• "Lift" (Radiohead song), 2017
• "Lift" (Sean Tyas song), 2006
• "Lift" (Shannon Noll song), 2005
• "Lift", by Immanuel Wilkins from The 7th Hand (2022)

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

• Lifting (disambiguation)
• List of weight training exercises
• Belt manlift, a belt with rungs and steps for moving people vertically
• Lyft, a ridesharing company