A lift is a device that carries people or goods up and down inside tall buildings.

If you give someone a lift somewhere, you take them there in your car as a favour to them.

Liftis the force that makes an aircraft leave the ground and stay in the air.

Lift up means the same as lift.

If you lift something, you move it to another position, especially upward.

If you lift your eyes or your head, you look up, for example, when you have been reading and someone comes into the room.

If people in authority lift a law or rule that prevents people from doing something, they end it.

If something lifts your spirits or your mood, or if they lift, you start feeling more cheerful.

If a government or organization lifts people or goods in or out of an area, it transports them there by aircraft, especially when there is a war.

To lift something means to increase its amount or to increase the level or the rate at which it happens.