lifting

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /ˈlɪf.tɪŋ/

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• Rhymes: -ɪftɪŋ

lifting (countable and uncountable, plural liftings)

1. The action or process by which something is lifted; elevation
   • 1946, Eugene E. Thomas, Brotherhood of Mt. Shasta:

     For some moments he stood there contemplating the little fellows as they went about their work in their business-like way, taking no notice of his presence other than the liftings of their heads now and then, as if to ascertain if he were still there.

2. (sports) Weightlifting; a form of exercise in which weights are lifted.

   Synonym: weightlifting

   • 2008, Lou Schuler, "Foreward", in Nate Green, Built for Show, page xi

     When I started lifting in 1970, I was the skinniest thirteen-year-old I knew.

3. (medicine) Plastic surgery for tightening facial tissues and improving the facial appearance.

   Synonym: facelift

4. Theft.
   • 1836, Tait's Edinburgh Magazine, volume 3, page 426:

     It was then as much the scene of continual spreaths, liftings, reavings, and herriments, as the Border country itself.

5. (mathematics) A certain operation on a measure space; see lifting theory.
6. Synonym of heavy lifting (“the most effort etc.”)

   The word "might" is certainly doing some lifting there!

lifting

1. present participle and gerund of lift

• lifting on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• fliting

Borrowed from English lifting.

• IPA^(key): /lif.tiŋ/

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lifting m (plural liftings)

1. facelift

   Synonym: lifting de visage

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

From Middle Irish lipting, from Old Norse lypting (compare Norwegian Nynorsk lyfting).

lifting f (genitive singular liftinge, nominative plural liftingí)

1. (nautical, literary) taffrail

   Synonyms: rancás, teafrail

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “lifting”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla [Irish–English Dictionary], Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “lipting”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Unadapted borrowing from English lifting.

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lifting m (invariable)

1. (surgery) face-lift, lifting

Borrowed from English lifting.

• IPA^(key): /ˈlif.tiŋk/

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• Rhymes: -iftiŋk
• Syllabification: lif‧ting

lifting m inan

1. facelift (plastic surgery to the face)

• “lifting”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego‎^[1] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• “lifting”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[2] (in Polish)

Unadapted borrowing from English lifting.

lifting n (plural liftinguri)

1. lifting

Unadapted borrowing from English.

• IPA^(key): /ˈliftin/ [ˈlif.t̪ĩn]
• Rhymes: -iftin

lifting m (plural liftings)

1. lifting, facelift

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.

• “lifting”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025