lifting
/ˈlɪf.tɪŋ/ nom B1En français : lifting
- The action or process by which something is lifted; elevation
- Weightlifting; a form of exercise in which weights are lifted.
- Plastic surgery for tightening facial tissues and improving the facial appearance.
- Theft.
- 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!
Pluriel liftings
Dans la bibliothèque
They killed several of them, when one of the Frogs, lifting his head out of the water, cried out: “Pray stop, my boys: what is sport to you, is death to us.”
The Old Man hurriedly replied, “That, lifting up the load, you may place it again upon my shoulders.”
As we reached it the fog was lifting, and a thin, watery sunshine was breaking through.
Kaa looked carefully till he found a discolored crack in the marble tracery showing a weak spot, made two or three light taps with his head to get the distance, and then lifting up six feet of his body clear of the ground, sent home half a dozen full-power smashing blows, nose-first.
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