Lift

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Lift may mean:

  • Lift (force), a mechanical force generated by an object moving through a fluid
  • Lift (soaring), rising air used by soaring birds and glider, hang glider and paraglider pilots for soaring flight
  • Lift (soft drink), a brand of carbonated beverage produced and marketed by the Coca-Cola Company
  • Lift (data mining), a measure of the performance of a model at segmenting the population
  • Airlift, in logistics, the act of transporting people or cargo from point to point using aircraft
  • Figure skating lifts, movements in pair skating and ice dancing
  • Hitchhiking, a form of transport in which the traveller tries to get a lift (or ride) from another traveller
  • 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

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[edit] Physical devices

  • Elevator or lift, a device used for raising and lowering people or goods
    • 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 space
    • Wheelchair lift (also called a "platform lift"), a powered device to assist a person in a wheelchair in passing a vertical barrier
    • Sling lift (also called a "Hoyer Lift", mobile lift, ceiling lift, or patient lift), a manual or powered lift or hoist to assist a caregiver in transferring a disabled patient from a bed to a wheelchair, gurney, toilet, or chair
  • Elevator shoe, an insole device that makes a person appear taller
  • Forklift, a trucking device
  • Automobile modification to increase the ride height:
    • 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

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[edit] Other uses

  • Lift (web framework), a Web application framework for Scala, which runs on the Java Virtual Machine
  • Lift Conference, a conference about the challenges and opportunities of technology in society
  • Lift, a special type of arrow in the video game engine StepMania
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