lifting

The action or process by which something is lifted; elevation

Noun

The action or process by which something is lifted; elevation
- 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...
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.
Synonyms: weightlifting
Plastic surgery for tightening facial tissues and improving the facial appearance.
Synonyms: facelift
Theft.
- It was then as much the scene of continual spreaths, liftings, reavings, and herriments, as the Border country itself. - 1836, Tait's Edinburgh Magazine, volume 3, page 426:
A certain operation on a measure space; see lifting theory.
Synonym of heavy lifting (“the most effort etc.”)
- The word "might" is certainly doing some lifting there!
Synonyms: heavy lifting