Lift or LIFT may refer to:

Physical devices

Elevator An elevator (American English) or lift (Commonwealth English) is a machine that vertically transports people or freight between levels. They are typically powered by electric motors that drive traction cables and counterweight systems suc ...

, or lift, a device used for raising and lowering people or goods ** Paternoster lift, a type of lift using a continuous chain of cars which do not stop **

Patient lift A patient lift (patient hoist, jack hoist, or Hoyer lift) may be either a sling lift or a sit-to-stand lift. This is an assistive device that allows patients in hospitals and nursing homes and people receiving home health care to be transferred ...

, or Hoyer lift, mobile lift, ceiling lift, a lift to assist a caregiver for a disabled patient **

Rack lift An elevator (American English) or lift (Commonwealth English) is a machine that vertically transports people or freight between levels. They are typically powered by electric motors that drive traction cables and counterweight systems such ...

, a type of elevator **

Ski lift A ski lift is a mechanism for transporting skiers up a hill. Ski lifts are typically a Lift ticket, paid service at ski resorts. The first ski lift was built in 1908 by German Robert Winterhalder in Schollach/Eisenbach, Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald, ...

, an aerial or surface lift for uphill transport **

Space elevator A space elevator, also referred to as a space bridge, star ladder, and orbital lift, is a proposed type of planet-to-space transportation system, often depicted in science fiction. The main component would be a cable (also called a tether) an ...

, a hypothetical structure for transporting material from a planet's surface into outer space **

Wheelchair lift A wheelchair lift, also known as a platform lift, or vertical platform lift, is a fully powered device designed to raise a wheelchair and its occupant in order to overcome a step or similar vertical barrier. Wheelchair lifts can be installed in ...

or platform lift, a powered device to assist a person in a wheelchair *

Forklift A forklift (also called industrial truck, lift truck, jitney, hi-lo, fork truck, fork hoist, and forklift truck) is a powered industrial truck used to lift and move materials over short distances. The forklift was developed in the early 20th c ...

, a powered industrial truck used to lift and move materials short distances *

Scissor lift An aerial work platform (AWP), also an aerial device, aerial lift, boom lift, bucket truck, cherry picker, elevating work platform (EWP), mobile elevating work platform (MEWP), or scissor lift, is a mechanical device used to provide temporary ...

, a type of aerial work platform * Body lift, an adaptation (of fixed height) to lift the automobile body from the frame *

Suspension lift A suspension lift is a modification to a vehicle to raise the ride height. It is done for the purpose of improving the Off-roading, off road performance of SUVs or trucks and other off-road vehicles, or for cosmetic purposes. Suspension lifts c ...

, a modification raising the suspension of the automobile *

Stairlift A stair lift is a mechanical device for lifting people, typically those with disabilities, up and down stairs. For sufficiently wide stairs, a rail is mounted to the treads of the stairs. A chair or lifting platform is attached to the rail. A per ...

, a mechanical device to help people with disabilities get up stairs * Heel lift, a shoe insert to increase the height of the wearer

Sport

* A specific way of lifting a barbell, dumbbell(s), kettlebell, or other piece of sporting equipment in a strength sport (e.g. weightlifting, weight training, powerlifting), such as ** clean-and-jerk, snatch,

deadlift The deadlift is a strength training exercise in which a weight-loaded barbell is lifted off the ground to the level of the hips, with the torso perpendicular to the floor, before being placed back on the ground. It is one of the three powerlifting ...

, squat,

bench press The bench press or chest press is a weight training exercise where a person presses a weight upwards while lying horizontally on a weight training bench. The bench press is a Compound movements, compound movement, with the primary muscles involved ...

, military press, clean-and-press, dumbbell curl, fly, calf raise,

two hands anyhow The Two Hands Anyhow is a traditional strongman weightlifting exercise. The goal was to lift as much weight overhead with two hands (two separate weights) in any method. The exercise was popular with lifters such as Arthur Saxon and Thomas I ...

Figure skating lifts Figure skating lifts are required elements in two disciplines of figure skating: pair skating and ice dance. There are five groups of lifts in pair skating, categorized in order of increasing level of difficulty. Judges look for the following when ...

, movements in pair skating and ice dancing

Science and technology

Lift (force) When a fluid flows around an object, the fluid exerts a force on the object. Lift is the Euclidean_vector#Decomposition_or_resolution, component of this force that is perpendicular to the oncoming flow direction. It contrasts with the drag (phy ...

, in fluid dynamics, a force generated by an object moving through a fluid **

Lift coefficient In fluid dynamics, the lift coefficient () is a dimensionless quantity that relates the lift generated by a lifting body to the fluid density around the body, the fluid velocity and an associated reference area. A lifting body is a foil or a co ...

, a coefficient that relates the lift generated by a lifting body to other parameters *

Lift (soaring) Lift is a meteorological phenomenon used as an energy source by soaring aircraft and soaring birds. The most common human application of lift is in sport and recreation. The three air sports that use soaring flight are: gliding, hang gliding and ...

, rising air used by soaring birds and glider, hang glider and paraglider pilots for soaring flight *

Lift (data mining) Lift or LIFT may refer to: Physical devices * Elevator, or lift, a device used for raising and lowering people or goods ** Paternoster lift, a type of lift using a continuous chain of cars which do not stop ** Patient lift, or Hoyer lift, mobi ...

, a measure of the performance of a model at segmenting the population *

Lift (web framework) Lift is a free and open-source web framework that is designed for the Scala programming language. It was originally created bDavid Pollakwho was dissatisfied with certain aspects of the Ruby on Rails framework. Lift was launched as an open sourc ...

, a web application framework for Scala * Light-Induced Fluorescence Transient, a device to remotely measure chlorophyll fluorescence in plants

Mathematics

Lift (mathematics) In category theory, a branch of mathematics, given a morphism ''f'': ''X'' → ''Y'' and a morphism ''g'': ''Z'' → ''Y'', a lift or lifting of ''f'' to ''Z'' is a morphism ''h'': ''X'' → ''Z'' such that . We say that ''f'' factors through '' ...

, an kind of morphism in category theory *

Homotopy lifting property In mathematics, in particular in homotopy theory within algebraic topology, the homotopy lifting property (also known as an instance of the right lifting property or the covering homotopy axiom) is a technical condition on a continuous function fr ...

, a unique path over a map *

Covering graph In the mathematical discipline of graph theory, a graph is a covering graph of another graph if there is a covering map from the vertex set of to the vertex set of . A covering map is a surjection and a local isomorphism: the neighbourhood of ...

or lift

Cosmetics

* Shoe lifts, a removable shoe insert ** Elevator shoes, shoes that have thickened sections of the insoles * Plastic surgery, surgery to lift the skin ** Rhytidectomy or face lift, a type of plastic surgery ** Mastopexy or breast lift, a type of plastic surgery

Media

London International Festival of Theatre The London International Festival of Theatre (LIFT) is a biennial festival of theatre, performance and cultural events. The organisation also supports year-round activity in London. The organisation was founded by Rose Fenton and Lucy Neal, wi ...

(LIFT)

Films

* '' The Lift'', a 1983 Dutch horror film by Dick Maas * ''Lift'' (2021 film), a 2021 Indian Tamil-language horror drama film * ''Lift'' (2024 film), an American heist comedy film

Music

* Lift (band), a German rock band

Albums

* ''Lift'' (Audio Adrenaline album) or the title song, 2001 * ''Lift'' (Dave Gunning album), 2015 * ''Lift'' (Love and Rockets album) or the title song, 1998 * ''Lift'' (Shannon Noll album) or the title song (see below), 2005 * ''Lift'' (Sister Hazel album), 2004 * '' Lift: Live at the Village Vanguard'', by Chris Potter, or the title song, 2004 * ''Lift'', by Onehundredhours, 2001

Songs

* "Lift" (Poets of the Fall song), 2004 * "Lift" (Radiohead song), 2017 * "Lift" (Sean Tyas song), 2006 * "Lift" (Shannon Noll song), 2005 * "Lift", by Immanuel Wilkins from '' The 7th Hand'' (2022)

Other uses

* LIFT (nonprofit), a nonprofit anti-poverty organization * LIFT (airline), South African Domestic Airline * Lead-in fighter trainer, a type of advanced military training aircraft * Legal Information for Families Today (LIFT), nonprofit that provides legal information in New York State, US *

Lift (soft drink) Lift is a range of soft drinks produced by The Coca-Cola Company that has been available in Australia, New Zealand, Chile, Germany, Austria, Philippines and Eastern Europe since the 1970s. It is carbonated and flavored with fruit juice. In Aus ...

, a brand of carbonated beverage produced and marketed by the Coca-Cola Company *

Airlift An airlift is the organized delivery of Materiel, supplies or personnel primarily via military transport aircraft. Airlifting consists of two distinct types: strategic and tactical. Typically, strategic airlifting involves moving material lo ...

, in logistics, the act of transporting people or cargo from point to point using aircraft *

Hitchhiking Hitchhiking (also known as thumbing, autostop or hitching) is a means of transportation that is gained by asking individuals, usually strangers, for a ride in their car or other vehicle. The ride is usually, but not always, free. Signaling ...

, a form of transport in which the traveller tries to get a lift (or ride) from another traveller * Lift, a special type of arrow in the video game engine ''

StepMania ''StepMania'' is a cross-platform rhythm video game and engine. It was originally developed as a clone of Konami's arcade game series ''Dance Dance Revolution'', and has since evolved into an extensible rhythm game engine capable of supporting ...