Uplift

Definition: Uplift

Uplift

Noun

1. (geology) a rise of land to a higher elevation (as in the process of mountain building).

2. A brassiere that lifts and supports the breasts.

Verb

1. Fill with high spirits; fill with optimism.

2. Lift up from the earth; of geologic forces.

3. Lift up or elevate.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "uplift" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Note: Uplift \Up*lift"\, transitive verb. [imperfect & past participle. Uplifting.]. (references)

Building & Civil Engineering

Electrical Engineering

Mining

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Synonyms: Uplift

Elevation

Verb: heighten, elevate, raise, lift, erect; set up, stick up, perch up, perk up, tilt up; rear, hoist, heave; uplift, upraise, uprear, upbear, upcast, uphoist, upheave; buoy, weigh mount, give a lift; exalt; sublimate; place on a pedestal, set on a pedestal.

Crosswords: Uplift

The Uplift (1914)

Tales of Uplift and Moral Improvement (2001)

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Books

• Startide Rising (The Uplift Saga, Book 2) (reference)

• Sundiver (The Uplift Saga, Book 1) (reference)

• The Uplift War (The Uplift Saga, Book 3) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Tune Your Brain with Beethoven: Uplift (reference)

• The Uplift Mofo Party Plan (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Consumer Goods

• OXO Good Grips Uplift Teakettle, Really Black (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

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Earthquake uplift at McLeod Harbor, Montague Island C&GS surveys followed Good Friday Alaska earthquake of 1964 31 feet of uplift necessitated resurveys of many areas Investigations off of HODGSON. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

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Trade

New Zealand

Once containers have been devanned, individual importers can then uplift their goods upon presentation of a Customs delivery order. (references)

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Expressions using "uplift": give smb. spiritual uplift ♦ Khosla's method of determination of uplift pressures and exit gradients ♦ uplift bra ♦ uplift braissiere ♦ uplift pressure ♦ uplift ratio ♦ uplift soul ♦ uplift to. Additional references.

Beginning with "uplift": uplift-under-wired-half-cup-sponge-rubber-lace-nylon.

Albanian

ngre (boost, build up, carve, cast up, chant, elevate, erect, establish, heft, heighten, hike, hitch, hoist, hold up, jerk up, kilt, lift, lift up, look up, move up, peak, pick up, propound, raise, rear, rebel, revolt, ring up, rout, run up, scoop up, set up, situate, soar, Square, straighten, take off, throw up, trice, up, upheave, upraise, wake up, weigh, wind up), lartësoj (celebrate, chant, elevate, exalt, extol, glorify, lift up, magnify, raise, rear, rise, spring, sublimate), frymëzim (afflatus, animation, inspiration, inspiriting), ekzaltim (exaltation). (various references)

Arabic 

‏نهوض معنوي, ‏نهض (arise, arisen, arose, awake, get up, raise, rise, stand up, turn out), ‏حركة إنهاض, ‏ترقية (advancement, preferment, promotion, step), ‏إرتفع (advance, arise, ascend, aspire, climb, come in, flow, hike, lift, lift off, mount, snowball, soar, spring, tower), ‏رفع (boost, brace, bring to his feet, bring up, cat, crane, dismiss, elevate, elevation, exalt, expand, fork out, heave, heighten, hike, hoist, hold up, inflate, jack, lever, leverage, lift, lifting, mount, pick, pick me up, pick up, promote, purchase, push up, put up with smth., raise, rear, rise, rising, rode, roll up, scroll, send up, set up, sling, take up, thrust, turn up, up-end, upheave, uphold), ‏رقى (ascend, commission, prefer, promote, raise), ‏رقعة (distance, label, vamp). (various references)

Bulgarian 

разместване на пластовете (upheaval), раздвижване (limbering up, movement, rouse, shake up, stir), възсед, възвисяване (spiritualization), възвисявам (raise, sublimate, subtilize), вид сутиен, оживление (activity, animation, hoopla, hum, liveliness, movement, rally), ободрявам (animate, brighten, bring round, buck up, cheer up, comfort, elevate, exhilarate, hearten, inspirit, invigorate, key up, lighten, liven up, nerve, pull round, reanimate, refresh, set up, spirit, stir up trouble), облагородяващо влияние, повдигам (boost, bring up, elevate, give a lift, heave, heft, increase, key up, levitate, lift, moot, pick up, prefer, present, pull up, raise, rear, start, take up, throw up, tip over, underlay, up, upraise), подем (boom, progress, revival, upgrade, upsurge, upswing), издигам (advance, build, edify, elevate, erect, exalt, heave, heft, heighten, hike, levitate, lift, make, put up, pyramid, raise, rear, rose, run up, set up, swing up, throw up, upbear, upraise). (various references)

Chinese 

进步 (Progressed, Progressing, Progression, Progressive), 抬起 . (various references)

Czech

zvedání (uptake), zlepšit (ameliorate, better, brighten up, enhance, jazz, rectify, reform), pozdvihnout. (various references)

Danish

rejsning (elevation, erection), opdrift (buoyance, buoyancy, floatability, lift, lift component, uplift pressure, upward pressure), opadrettet vandtryk i fundamentsflader (uplift pressure, upward pressure), hævning (elevation, jacking up, lifting, picking, raising, upheaval, uplift (of the earth's crust)), forbedring. (various references)

Dutch

situatieverbetering, opwaartse waterdruk (uplift pressure, upward pressure), opheffing (abrogation, cancellation, repeal, rescission, show of hands, suspension, suspension of staff, upheaval, uplift (of the earth's crust)), opdrijving (uplift pressure, upward pressure), opdrijvend vermogen, negatieve oplegreactie, lift (elevator, lift). (various references)

Farsi 

متعال ساختن , روبتعالی نهادن , بالابردن (Amplify, Ante, Elate, Enhance, Enthrone, Heighten, Hoist, Raise, Sublimate, Upgrade, Upraise, Uprear). (various references)

Finnish

vastapaine, noste (buoyance, buoyancy, uplift pressure, upward pressure), kohoaminen (promotion, rising). (various references)

French

soulèvement (upheaval, uprising). (various references)

German

erheben (ascertain, charge, edify, elevate, ennoble, exalt, extol, impose, Laud, lay, level, lever, levy, lift, lift up, raise, to elevate, to extol, upraise). (various references)

Greek 

ώθηση (actuation, boost, furtherance, hunch, impetus, impulse, impulsion, jostle, motivation, propulsion, push, spur, thrust), σπρώξιμο (jostle, push, thrust), βελτίωση (amelioration, betterment, improvement, improvement in, meliorate, melioration, pickup, refinement, retrieval, upturn), μεταρσιώνω, υποπίεσις (depression, uplift pressure, upward pressure), άνωσις (uplift pressure, upward pressure), αρνητική αντίδραση έδρασης, ανύψωση (elevation, heave, lift, lifting, raising), ανυψώ (elevate, lift, upheave), αναμόρφωση (anamorphosis, reclamation, reform, reformation, rehabilitation), αναμορφώ (reform), αν?ψωση (upheaval). (various references)

Hebrew 

�"תרוממות רוח (elation, exaltation). (various references)

Hungarian

fölemelkedés. (various references)

Italian

sollevamento (heave, hoist, lift, raising, upheaval). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

高揚 (enhancement, exaltation, promotion). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

�"うよう (autumn colours, benefit, dazzling brightness, descendant, discharge of filial duties, effect, elements, enhancement, essentials, exaltation, future generations, government business, great expanse of water, incoherent, maple, outline, posterity, promotion, public expense, public use, unfathomable, use, utility, yellow leaves). (various references)

Pig Latin

iftuplay.(various references)

Portuguese

melhoria (advance, amelioration, improvement, progress, reform), elevação (ascension, elevation, eminence, exaltation, ledge, lifting, loftiness, raise, rise, rising, sublimation, up, uprise). (various references)

Romanian

urca (ascend, bestride, go up, grow, heave, lift, Mount, rise, scale, soar, swell), ridicare (adjournment, ascension, elevation, erection, growth, heave, heft, hoist, lift, raise, raising, removal, rise, rising, round up, shrug, upturning), ridica (advance, aggrandize, appear, arise, arrest, ascend, assemble, balloon, bring up, build, carry up, collect, construct, convene, create, draw the cloth, elevate, encash, enhance, erect, found, get up, heave, hoist, interpose, kick up, lift, loop, Mount, muster, perk up, pick up, pitch, pose, prong, pry, put, put up, raise, receive, remove, resound, rise, round up, salt, set up, shovel, start, step up, stick up, straighten, strike, suspend, take up, up, weigh), înnobila (elevate, ennoble, peer), înãlţare sufleteascã, înãlţa (balloon, build, elevate, erect, exalt, heave, heighten, hoist, lift, put up, raise, set up). (various references)

Russian 

поднимать (boost, draw up, elevate, fly, lift, pick up, raise, rear, take up, turn up, up, upheave, upraise, weigh up). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

podizanje (build up, heaving, heft, lifting, withdrawal), podići (boost, elevate, inflate, lift, pass under, pick up, pull up, put up, raise, rear, upraise). (various references)

Spanish

sustentación (lift, subsistence), subpresión (uplift pressure, upward pressure), reacción de apoyo negativa, mejora (amelioration, betterment, improvement, upturn), levantamiento (erection, insurgence, insurgency, lift, lifting, raising, rise, uprising), inspiración (afflatus, inspiration), empuje (buoyancy, compression, drive, ginger, go, hustle, oppressiveness, pressure, printing, push, shove, thrust, verve, vim), elevación espiritual, edificación (edification). (various references)

Swedish

negativ upplagsreaktion, lyftkraft (lift), lyftande (elevation), lyfta (elevate, get off the ground, heave, heft, hump, Jack, jack up, lift, pitchfork, raise, take up, throw up), jordskorpehöjning (upheaval), höjning (advance, boost, heave, hike, increase), höjdförskjutning (upheaval), höja (advance, appreciate, boost, enhance, improve, inflate, jack up, lift, perk, raise, work up), förbättring (amelioration, amendment, betterment, enhancement, improvement, melioration, reform), förbättra villkoren för, dragbelastat upplag. (various references)

Turkish

yukarı kaldırmak (lift, lift up, rear), yukarı dikmek, yükseltmek (advance, amplify, boost, bump up, drive up, elevate, enhance, ennoble, escalate, exalt, force, get up, heighten, hike up, increase, Jack, jack up, lift, lift up, Louden, mark up, promote, push up, raise, rear, rise, run up, scale up, screw up, send up, set up, step up, strengthen, swell out, swell up, up, upgrade, upheave), yüceltmek (aggrandize, belaud, emblazon, ennoble, enrich, exalt, sublimate, sublime, transfigure), yüceltme (apotheosis, deification, ennoblement, exaltation, sublimation, veneration), ruhu şenlenme, kalkındırmak (reconstruct), kalkındırma (improvement), iyileştirme (amendment, reclamation, recruitment, rehabilitation, restoration, therapy), canlandırmak (accelerate, animate, arouse, brace, bring to life, brisk, brisk up, characterize, drum up, enact, enliven, exhilarate, fortify, freshen, furbish up, galvanize, ginger, ginger up, give a fresh impetus to, hearten, impersonate, innervate, inspire, inspirit, interpret, invigorate, jazz, jazz up, jog, key up, liven, liven up, pep up, perform, personalize, personate, personify, play, play the role of, portray, quicken, rake up, rally, recreate, refresh, regenerate, represent, revitalize, revive, revivify, rouse, rouse up, smarten, smarten up, spirit, spirit up, stimulate, tone up, touch up, vitalize, vivify, wake, waken). (various references)

Ukrainian

підйом (ascension, ascent, heave, instep, lift, raise, rouse, up, upgrade, uphill), піднімати (boost, bring up, draw up, elevate, haul up, heave, heft, hoist, levitate, lift, prong, put up, raise, raise up, rear, set up, take up, up, upbear, uphold, waken), підносити (dish, exalt, lift, pinnacle, present, sublimate). (various references)

Vietnamese 

tinh thần (psyche), sự nhấc lên (lift), sự nâng lên (elevation, lift, raise), sự đưa lên (elevation, rise, risen), sự đỡ lên. (various references)

glorifica, glorificabant, glorificabat, glorificaberis, glorificabimus, glorificabis, glorificabit, glorificabo, glorificabor, glorificabunt, glorificamini, glorificantes, glorificare, glorificarent, glorificaret, glorificari, glorificasti, glorificat, glorificata, glorificate, glorificati, glorificatum, glorificatur, glorificatus, glorificaveris, glorificaverit, glorificaverunt, glorificavit, glorificemur, glorificent, glorificet, glorificetur, glorifico. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "uplift": uplifted, uplifter, uplifters, uplifting, uplifts. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Uplift" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: plift, qualifat, uglify, uply. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: tulip, uplit.

-2 letters: flip, flit, lift, litu, pfui, puli.

-3 letters: fil, fit, flu, lip, lit, pit, piu, pul, put, til, tip, tui, tup.

-4 letters: if, it, li, pi, ti, up, ut.

+1 letter: pitiful, uplifts.

+2 letters: spiteful, uplifted, uplifter.

+3 letters: pitifully, plaintful, plentiful, uplifters, uplifting.

+4 letters: despiteful, pitcherful, pitifuller, spitefully, sprightful.

+5 letters: painfullest, pitcherfuls, pitchersful, pitifullest, pitifulness, plentifully, prestigeful, spitefuller, superfluity.