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lifting

noun
/ˈlɪf.tɪŋ/UK

Definitions

  1. The action or process by which something is lifted

    The action or process by which something is lifted; elevation

  2. Weightlifting

    Weightlifting; a form of exercise in which weights are lifted.

    • 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. Plastic surgery for tightening facial tissues and improving the facial appearance.

  4. ›+ 4 more definitions

    1. Theft.

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

    2. A certain operation on a measure space

      A certain operation on a measure space; see lifting theory.

    3. Synonym of heavy lifting (“the most effort etc.”)

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

    4. present participle and gerund of lift

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at lifting. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at lifting. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at lifting

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

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