lifter

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈlɪftə/

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• Rhymes: -ɪftə(ɹ)

From lift + -er.

lifter (plural lifters)

1. Someone or something that lifts or assists in lifting.
   1. (weightlifting) A weightlifter.

      heavy lifters

      • 2010, Eric Velazquez, “Power Pairings”, in Reps!, 17:83:

        While some lifters insist that supersets must consist of consecutive exercises for the same bodypart, others would bet their weight belts that supersets involve opposing bodyparts.

   3. A tappet.

      solid lifters;   hydraulic lifters

   4. (cricket) A delivery that bounces well off the pitch.
      • 1990, Ashes: Battles and Bellylaughs, Byron Bay: Swan Publishing, page 148:

        When he dismissed Keith Miller, caught at short leg off a lifter, I turned round to Tony Lock[.]

   5. A spatula.
   6. A thief.

      Synonyms: see Thesaurus:thief

      an inveterate lifter

      • c. 1602, William Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida, act 1, scene 2, line 118:

        Is he so young a man, and so old a lifter?

   8. An ionocraft.

• (spatula): fish slice, spatula, turner
• (thief): See Thesaurus:thief

From filter with the first syllable reversed. Modelled on the derivation of cepstrum from spectrum.

lifter (plural lifters)

1. (signal processing) A filter that operates on a cepstrum.

• fertil, Trefil, firtle, Filter, filter, relift, filtre, trifle

From liften +‎ -er.

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lifter m (plural lifters, diminutive liftertje n, feminine liftster)

1. hitchhiker

• IPA^(key): /lif.te/

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lifter

1. to give a facelift to
2. (sports) to lift the ball (over an opponent)

• “lifter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012