lifting

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /ˈlɪft.ɪŋ/

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lifting (countable and uncountable, plural liftings)

1. the action or process by which something is lifted; elevation
   • 1946, Eugene E. Thomas, ‎Brotherhood of Mt. Shasta

     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 ascertain if he were still there.

2. (sports) weightlifting; a form of exercise in which weights are lifted

   Synonym: weightlifting

   • 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. (medicine) plastic surgery for tightening facial tissues and improving the facial appearance

   Synonym: facelift

• (computing): type lifting

lifting

1. present participle of lift

• lifting on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• fliting

Borrowed from English lifting.

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lifting m (plural liftings)

1. facelift

   Synonym: lifting de visage

• “lifting” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

From Old Irish lipting, from Old Norse lypting (compare Norwegian Nynorsk lyfting).

lifting f (genitive singular liftinge, nominative plural liftingí)

1. (nautical, literary) taffrail

   Synonyms: rancás, teafrail

• "lifting" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• “lipting” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.

Borrowed from English.

lifting m (invariable)

1. (surgery) face-lift, lifting

Borrowed from English.

lifting m (plural liftings)

1. lifting, facelift