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/lˈɪftɪŋ/ Listen

adjective

Lifting adj. Used in, or for, or by, lifting.

Lifting bridge, a lift bridge.

Lifting jack. See 2d Jack, 5.

Lifting machine. See Health lift, under Health.

Lifting pump. (Mach.)

(a)

A kind of pump having a bucket, or valved piston, instead of a solid piston, for drawing water and lifting it to a high level.

(b)

A pump which lifts the water only to the top of the pump, or delivers it through a spout; a lift pump.

Lifting rod, a vertical rod lifted by a rock shaft, and imparting motion to a puppet valve; used in the engines of river steamboats.

Lifting sail (Naut.), one which tends to lift a vessel's bow out of water, as jibs and square foresails.

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Etymology of 'Lifting'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Lifting" Quotes from Famous Books

... they expect?" he said suddenly, lifting his head but looking at no one—"what do they expect of me in England? I have not twelve thousand effectives, and of these not nine thousand fit for duty. They have eleven thousand, counting the French, not a dozen miles north of us. Suppose I attack? Suppose I beat them? They have but ...

— The Reckoning • Robert W. Chambers

... his paper on the floor and lifting his knees over the arm of the chair so as to turn towards the footman] It was part of your bargain that you were to valet ...

— Fanny's First Play • George Bernard Shaw

... Mother, that those papers happen to be worth five thousand dollars," said Frank, lifting ...

— Chicken Little Jane • Lily Munsell Ritchie

... immediately pitch forward on my face. Instead, my body rose to the perpendicular and began to incline forward. In point of fact, my body proper still retained much momentum, while my feet, through contact with the earth, had lost all their momentum. This momentum the feet had lost I had to supply anew by lifting them as rapidly as I could and running them forward in order to keep them under my forward-moving body. The result was that my feet beat a rapid and explosive tattoo clear across the street. I didn't dare stop them. If I had, ...

— The Road • Jack London

... are elevated by a wedge like intrusion of melted matter is to give to a fluid functions incompatible with its dynamic properties. So also the supposition that the igneous rocks were intruded, as solid wedges separating and lifting the crust, is opposed to the fact that no apparent abrasion, but generally the closest adhesion, exists at the line of contact of the igneous and stratified rocks. Equally fatal objections may be ...

— Fables of Infidelity and Facts of Faith - Being an Examination of the Evidences of Infidelity • Robert Patterson

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