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語源 1

From 中期英語 liften, lyften, from Old Norse lypta (“to lift, air”, literally “to raise in the air”), from Proto-Germanic *luftijaną (“to raise in the air”), related to *luftuz (“roof, air”), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *lewp- (“to peel, break off, damage”) or from a root meaning roof (see *luftuz). Cognate with Danish and Norwegian Bokmål løfte (“to lift”), Norwegian Nynorsk and Swedish lyfta (“to lift”), German lüften (“to air, lift”), 古期英語 lyft (“air”). See above. 1851 for the noun sense "a mechanical device for vertical transport".

(To steal): For this sense Cleasby suggests perhaps a relation to the root of Gothic 𐌷𐌻𐌹𐍆𐍄𐌿𐍃 (hliftus) "thief", cognate with Latin cleptus and Greek κλέπτω (kléptō)). But perhaps simply from the idea of removing an item from a surface.

動詞

lift (third-person singular simple present lifts, present participle lifting, simple past lifted or (rare, regional, obsolete) lift, past participle lifted or (rare, regional, obsolete) lift or (obsolete) yleft)

1. (ambitransitive) To raise or rise.

   The fog eventually lifted, leaving the streets clear.

   You never lift a finger to help me!

   • c. 1490, Of Penance and Confession be master Jhon Yrlandː

     Liftand (lifting) thy hands and thy eyen to Heaven.

   • 1900, Charles W[addell] Chesnutt, chapter I, in The House Behind the Cedars, Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Houghton, Mifflin and Company […], →OCLC:

     Their walk had continued not more than ten minutes when they crossed a creek by a wooden bridge and came to a row of mean houses standing flush with the street. At the door of one, an old black woman had stooped to lift a large basket, piled high with laundered clothes.

   • 1918, Patrick Casey, Terence Casey, The Wolf-cub: A Novel of Spain‎, page 91:

     Instantly a great flutter of butterflies of all sizes and colors lifted in spangled clouds about them.

   • 1984 October 12, Janet Maslin, “Blood Simple, A black-comic romp”, in The New York Times, retrieved 9 July 2012:

     A long, late-night tracking shot from one end of the Neon Boot bar to another actually tracks along the surface of the bar itself—and when there is a drunk passed out on the bar, the camera simply lifts up and flies over him, then continues on its route.

   • 2015 February 7, Val Bourne, “The quiet man of the world of snowdrops”, in The Daily Telegraph (London), page G8:

     Once it [a snowdrop variety] became established, some bulbs were lifted and passed on to be chipped (i.e. cut into small pieces and grown on).

   1. (transitive) To cause to move upwards.
      • 2011 October 2, Aled Williams, “Swansea 2 - 0 Stoke”, in BBC Sport Wales‎:

        Graham secured victory with five minutes left, coolly lifting the ball over Asmir Begovic.

2. (transitive, slang) To steal.
   • 1919, Rudyard Kipling, The Ballad of East and West:

     Kamal is out with twenty men to raise the Border side,
     And he has lifted the Colonel's mare that is the Colonel's pride.

   • 1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter VI, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC:

     “Wilbert Cream is a ... what's the word?” I referred to the letter. “A kleptomaniac […] Does any thought occur to you?” “It most certainly does. I am thinking of your uncle's collection of old silver.” “Me, too.” “It presents a grave temptation to the unhappy young man.” “I don't know that I'd call him unhappy. He probably thoroughly enjoys lifting the stuff.”

3. (transitive, slang) To source directly without acknowledgement; to plagiarise.
   • 2018, James Lambert, “Anglo-Indian slang in dictionaries on historical principles”, in World Englishes, volume 37, page 258:

     Based on a similarity across a range of Anglo-Indian entries in these three dictionaries, it appears that (along with other lexis) Barrère and Leland (1898) copied this entry from Hotten (1864), who had in turn lifted it directly from Stocqueler (1848).

4. (transitive, slang) To arrest (a person).
   • 2000, Marie Smyth, Marie-Therese Fay, Personal Accounts From Northern Ireland's Troubles:

     Maybe the police lifted him and he's in Castlereagh [Interrogation Centre] because he'd been lifted three or four times previously and took to Castlereagh. They used to come in and raid the house and take him away.

5. (transitive) To remove (a ban, restriction, etc.).
6. (transitive) To alleviate, to lighten (pressure, tension, stress, etc.)
   • 2011 September 24, David Ornstein, “Arsenal 3 - 0 Bolton”, in BBC Sport‎:

     The Gunners boss has been heavily criticised for his side's poor start to the Premier League season but this result helps lift the pressure.

7. (intransitive, especially Scotland) To disperse, to break up.
   • 1832, The Day, page 127:

     About three o'clock in the mornin', the company began to lift, and the room to get thinner and thinner.

   • 1887, George Garden Green, Gordonhaven, by an old fisherman [G.G. Green]., page 49:

     Others thought the bank [of clouds] would "lift," and that it would be a fine "kwait nicht"; and as they were generally unwilling to lose a night's fishing, most of the crews resolved to proceed to sea, though not without serious misgivings […]

   • 1891, Henry Johnston (barrister.), Kilmallie, page 55:

     But Miss Macnee had one important move in reserve. She saw the company was about to 'lift,' as she was pleased to term it, and this move must be made before they separated.

   • 1894, David Storrar Meldrum, The Story of Margrédel: Being a Fireside History of a Fifeshire Family, page 228:

     "Since when, Willy?" Margrédel led him. "Since the regiment lifted." […] She knew that [the person] had left with his regiment.

8. (informal, intransitive) To lift weights; to weight-lift.

   She lifts twice a week at the gym.

9. To try to raise something; to exert the strength for raising or bearing.
   • a. 1705, John Locke, “Of the Conduct of the Understanding”, in Posthumous Works of Mr. John Locke: […], London: […] A[wnsham] and J[ohn] Churchill, […], published 1706, →OCLC:

     strained by lifting at a weight too heavy

10. To elevate or improve in rank, condition, etc.; often with up.
    • 1712 (date written), [Joseph] Addison, Cato, a Tragedy. […], London: […] J[acob] Tonson, […], published 1713, →OCLC, Act I, scene iv, page 9:

      The Roman virtues lift up mortal man.

    • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 1 Timothy 3:6:

      being lifted up with pride

11. (obsolete) To bear; to support.
    • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

      Th' earth him underneath
      Did grone, as feeble so great load to lift.

12. To collect, as moneys due; to raise.
13. (category theory, transitive) Given morphisms ${\displaystyle f}$ and ${\displaystyle g}$ with the same target: To produce a morphism which the given morphism factors through (i.e. a morphism ${\displaystyle h}$ such that ${\displaystyle f=g\circ h}$; cf. lift n.etymology 1, noun 20)
    1. (programming) To transform (a function) into a corresponding function in a different context.
       • 2021, Dean Wampler, chapter 2, in Programming Scala, 3rd edition, O'Reilly, →ISBN:

         Finally, we can lift a partial function into a regular (total) function that returns an Option or a Some(value) when the partial function is defined for the input argument or None when it isn't.

14. (finance) To buy a security or other asset previously offered for sale.
15. (hunting, transitive) To take (hounds) off the existing scent and move them to another spot.
    • 1885, Lina Chaworth Musters, Book of Hunting Songs and Sport, page 144:

      I lifted the hounds (hoping to catch the leading ones there) to the far side of Hallaton Thorns.

使用する際の注意点

Lift also has an obsolete form liftand for the present participle. The strong forms were common until the 17th century in writing and still survive in speech in a few rural dialects.

下位語

• airlift

派生語

名詞

lift (countable and uncountable, plural lifts)

1. An act of lifting or raising.
2. The act of transporting someone in a vehicle; a ride; a trip.

   Synonym: ride

   He gave me a lift to the bus station.

   • 1913, Arthur Conan Doyle, “(please specify the page)”, in The Poison Belt […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:

     Accordingly, in spite of many grumbles and remonstrances from Summerlee, I ordered an additional tube, which was placed with the other in his motor-car, for he had offered me a lift to Victoria.

3. (UK, Australia, New Zealand, India, puristic elsewhere) A mechanical device for vertically transporting goods or people between floors in a building.

   Synonym: (US, Canada, Australia, Philippines) elevator

   Take the lift to the fourth floor.

   • 1913, Marie Adelaide Belloc Lowndes, The Lodger:

     Even the lift in which the three of them were whirled up to one of the upper floors of the huge building was to the girl a new and delightful experience. Daisy had always lived a simple, quiet life in the little country town where dwelt Old Aunt, and this was the first time a lift had come her way.

4. A mechanical device for raising vehicles for service, so that it is easier for a mechanic to get beneath them.

   Coordinate terms: grease pit, inspection pit

5. An upward force; especially, the force (generated by wings, rotary wings, or airfoils) that keeps aircraft aloft.

   Coordinate term: liftup

6. (weightlifting) Any technique for lifting weights.
   • 2026, Greg Presto, “Timeless Gains”, in Men's Health, volume 41, number 2, page 14:

     This is actually an old-school circus lift—the sort of maneuver you imagine guys with twirly mustaches performing using cartoony barbells.

7. (measurement) The difference in elevation between the upper pool and lower pool of a waterway, separated by lock.
8. (historical slang) A thief.
   • 1977, Gãmini Salgãdo, The Elizabethan Underworld, Folio Society, published 2006, page 32:

     The lift came into the shop dressed like a country gentleman, but was careful not to have a cloak about him, so that the tradesman could see he had no opportunity to conceal any goods about his person.

9. (dance) The lifting of a dance partner into the air.
10. Permanent construction with a built-in platform that is lifted vertically.
11. (figurative) An improvement in mood.
    • 1981 February 7, “Robert Bobby Bob (personal advertisement)”, in Gay Community News, volume 8, number 28, page 14:

      The news rocked us, especially since we were anticipating a lift for our spirits under the grim circumstances.

    • 2010, Anne Baker, With a Little Luck:

      Just to think he had both a mistress and a wife gave him a lift. He needed a lift, for although he'd had promotion, his wasn't an exciting job.

    • 2012 November 17, “Arsenal 5-2 Tottenham”, in BBC Sport‎:

      The dismissal of a player who left Arsenal for Manchester City before joining Tottenham gave the home players and fans a noticeable lift.

12. The amount or weight to be lifted.

    What's the maximum lift of this crane?

13. The space or distance through which anything is lifted.
14. A rise; a degree of elevation.

    the lift of a lock in canals

15. A liftgate.
16. (nautical) A rope leading from the masthead to the extremity of a yard below, and used for raising or supporting the end of the yard.
17. (engineering) One of the steps of a cone pulley.
18. (shoemaking) A layer of leather in the heel of a shoe.
19. (horology) That portion of the vibration of a balance during which the impulse is given.
    • 1887, Claudius Saunier, A Treatise on Modern Horology in Theory and Practice:

      some measure the total lift and others only the lift on one side, a quantity which is not exactly half of the total lift

20. (category theory) A morphism which some given morphism factors through; i.e. given a pair of morphisms ${\displaystyle f:X\to Y}$ and ${\displaystyle g:Z\to Y}$, a morphism ${\displaystyle h}$ such that ${\displaystyle f=g\circ h}$. (In this case ${\displaystyle h}$ is said to be a lift of ${\displaystyle f}$ via ${\displaystyle Z}$ or via ${\displaystyle g}$).
    • 2001, Allen Hatcher, Algebraic Topology, page 69:

      For a covering space ${\displaystyle p:\tilde{X}\to X}$ a path ${\displaystyle \gamma }$ [i.e. a continuous map ${\displaystyle [0,1]\to X}$] in ${\displaystyle X}$ has a unique lift ${\displaystyle \tilde{\gamma }}$ starting at a given point of ${\displaystyle p^{-1}(\gamma (0))}$

21. (broadcasting) A shorter extract from a commercial/advertisement, able to be used on its own.

派生語

派生した語

• → Cantonese: 𨋢 / 䢂 (lip)
• → Dutch: lift
  • → Papiamentu: left
  • → Indonesian: lift
• → Malay: lif
• → Russian: лифт (lift), лифтъ (lift) — pre-1918 spelling
  • → Armenian: լիֆտ (lift)
  • → Georgian: ლიფტი (lipṭi)
  • → Kazakh: лифт (lıyft)
  • → Mongolian: лифт (lift)
  • → Uyghur: لىفت (lift)
  • → Uzbek: lift
  • → Yakut: лифт (lift)
• → Swahili: lifti
• → Swedish: lift

参考

• escalator

参照

• The Dictionary of the Scots Language

語源 2

From 中期英語 lifte, luft, lefte (“air, sky, heaven”), from 古期英語 lyft (“atmosphere, air”), from Proto-West Germanic *luftu, from Proto-Germanic *luftuz (“roof, sky, air”), from Proto-Indo-European *lewp- (“to peel, break off, damage”).

Cognate with Old High German luft (“air”) (German Luft), Dutch lucht (“air”), Old Norse lopt, loft (“upper room, sky, air”). Doublet of loft and luft.

名詞

lift (usually uncountable, plural lifts)

1. (UK dialectal, chiefly Scotland) Air.
2. (UK dialectal, chiefly Scotland) The sky; the heavens; firmament; atmosphere.
   • 1836, Joanna Baillie, Witchcraft, act 1, page 13:

     No, no, Leddy! the sun maun be up in the lift whan I venture to her den.

同意語

• (gas or vapour breathed): air
• (firmament, ethereal region surrounding the earth): atmosphere
• (the heavens, sky): welkin

参照

• “lift”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin Eli Smith, editors (1895–1910), “lift”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• Douglas Harper (2001–2026), “lift”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

アナグラム

• ILTF, flit

語源

From 古期英語 lyft.

発音

• IPA: /lift/

形容詞

lift

1. left

派生した語

• English: left
• Yola: left

参照

• “lift, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.