Boost Chinese And Uk Measures Of Distance Crossword Clue (2024)

We think the answer is "LIFT" which means:

noun
• • The act of giving temporary assistance
• • The component of the aerodynamic forces acting on an airfoil that opposes gravity
• • The event of something being raised upward
• • A wave that lifts the surface of the water or ground
• • A powered conveyance that carries skiers up a hill
• • A device worn in a shoe or boot to make the wearer look taller or to correct a shortened leg
• • One of the layers forming the heel of a shoe or boot
• • Lifting device consisting of a platform or cage that is raised and lowered mechanically in a vertical shaft in order to move people from one floor to another in a building
• • Plastic surgery to remove wrinkles and other signs of aging from your face; an incision is made near the hair line and skin is pulled back and excess tissue is excised
• • Transportation of people or goods by air (especially when other means of access are unavailable)
• • A ride in a car
• • The act of raising something
verb
• • Raise from a lower to a higher position
• • Take hold of something and move it to a different location
• • Move upwards
• • Move upward
• • Make audible
• • Cancel officially
• • Make off with belongings of others
• • Raise or haul up with or as if with mechanical help
• • Invigorate or heighten
• • Raise in rank or condition
• • Take off or away by decreasing
• • Rise up
• • Pay off (a mortgage)
• • Take without referencing from someone else's writing or speech; of intellectual property
• • Take illegally
• • Fly people or goods to or from places not accessible by other means
• • Take (root crops) out of the ground
• • Call to stop the hunt or to retire, as of hunting dogs
• • Rise upward, as from pressure or moisture
• • Put an end to
• • Remove (hair) by scalping
• • Remove from a seedbed or from a nursery
• • Remove from a surface
• • Perform cosmetic surgery on someone's face

An example sentence would be:

• • "She took the lift to the fourth floor of the building."
• • "The lift in our apartment building is out of order."

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