Lift

Definition

lift / lÇft / v ၁။ ~ sb/sth (up) မသည္။ ပင့္သည္။ ျမႇင့္သည္။ Lift me up, mummy — I can’t see. ❍ The government are planning to lift interest rates. ၂။ ခ်ီသည္။ မသည္။ lift a baby out of a pram ❍ lift a suitcase down from the rack. ၃။ တက္ႂကြသည္။ The sun came out and lifted our spirits. ❍ Her heart lifted at the thought of him. ၄။ ကြဲသြားသည္။ ေပ်ာက္ျပယ္သြားသည္။ The mist began to lift. ၅။ ႏုတ္သည္။ ေဖာ္သည္။ lift potatoes / turnips. ၆။ ~ sth (from sb/sth) ( infml ) (က) ခိုးယူသည္။ အလစ္သုတ္ သြားသည္။ lift goods from a warehouse. See also SHOPLIFT (ခ) ခိုးခ်သည္။ Many of his ideas were lifted from other authors. ၇။ ႐ုပ္သိမ္းသည္။ lift a ban / a curfew/an embargo/a blockade. ၈။ ေလေၾကာင္းျဖင့္ ပို႔ေဆာင္သည္။ The survivors were lifted to safety by helicopter from the stricken ship. See also AIRLIFT n ၁။ ( Brit ) ( US elevator) [C] ဓာတ္ေလွကား။ ပင့္စက္။ a hydraulic lift ❍ It’s on the sixth floor — let’s take the lift. See also CHAIR-LIFT, SKI-LIFT ၂။ [C] ကားႏွင့္တင္ေခၚျခင္း။ I’ll give you a lift to the station. ❍ hitch a lift. ၃။ [U] (ေလယာဥ္ေတာင္ပံ စသည္ အေပၚ သက္ေရာက္သည့္) ေလပင့္အား။ Compare DRAG n ၅ ၄။ [sing] စိတ္ဓာတ္တက္ႂကြမႈ။ Getting the job gave me a tremendous lift. ၅။ [sing] ပင့္ျခင္း။ မျခင္း။ ျမႇင့္ျခင္း။ ❏ lift off [ PHRV ] (ဒံုးပ်ံ၊ အာကာသယာဥ္) လႊတ္တင္သည္၊ စတက္သည္။ ❏ lift-off n [C, U] (ဒံုးပ်ံ၊ အာကာသယာဥ္) လႊတ္တင္ျခင္း။ We have lift-off. See also BLAST-OFF ❏ lift / raise a finger / hand (to do sth) [ IDM ] ( infml ) နည္းနည္းမွ်ပင္ (ကူေဖာ္မရ)။ He never lifts a finger to help with the housework.

Examples

1. Lift the lid and look inside the box.
2. The phone rang and he lifted the receiver immediately.
3. [lift something off/onto/from etc] : We lifted the new books onto a shelf.
4. We watched the balloon lift slowly into the air.
5. [lift something from something] : He lifted his eyes from the newspaper as Kate walked into the room.
6. [lift something to something] : Ruth lifted her face to the sun.
7. Her shoulders lifted slightly but she didn’t say anything.
8. Lie on the floor and try to lift your legs slowly.
9. [lift someone out of something] : Economic measures designed to lift the country out of recession
10. They’re hoping to get the ban lifted by the end of the month.
11. She was lifted a little by the news that they had phoned.
12. [lift someone’s spirits] : Being in the sunshine all day really lifted my spirits.
13. I felt as if a great financial burden had been lifted from my shoulders.
14. I watched him lift a couple of CDs and stuff them into his jacket.
15. An increase in interest rates will lift the value of the dollar.
16. The two men have been lifted to safety.