Lift

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:
  • Rhytidectomyor a "face lift", a type of plastic surgery
  • Mastopexy or a "breast lift", a type of plastic surgery

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
• Suspension lift, an automobile modification to increase the ride height

Media

• London International Festival of Theatre (LIFT)
• De Lift (The Lift), a 1983 horror film by Dick Maas

In music

• Lift (band), a German rock band
• Lift (Audio Adrenaline album) (2001)
• Lift (Love and Rockets album) (1998)
• "Lift" (Poets of the Fall song), a 2004 single
• Lift (Sister Hazel album) (2004)
• Lift (Shannon Noll album) (2005)
  • "Lift" (Shannon Noll song)
• Retake or lift, a symbol used in musical notation

Computing

• Logically Integrated FORTRAN Translator (LIFT), a program for the UNIVAC 1108 that converted FORTRAN II source code to FORTRAN V source code
• Lift (web framework), a Web application framework for Scala, which runs on the Java Virtual Machine.

Mathematics

• Homotopy lifting property, in mathematics, a unique path over a map
• Lift (mathematics), a morphism h from X to Z such that gh = f

Other uses

• Lift Conference, a conference about the challenges and opportunities of technology in society