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Lift may mean:
- Lift (force), a mechanical force generated by a solid object moving through a fluid
- Lift (soaring), rising air used by soaring birds and glider, hang glider and paraglider pilots for soaring flight
- Lift (soft drink), a brand of carbonated beverage produced and marketed by the Coca-Cola Company
- Lift (data mining), a measure of the performance of a model at segmenting the population
- Lift (mathematics), a morphism h from X to Z such that gh = f
- Lift (web framework), for Scala and Java programming like Ruby on Rails
- Lift Conference|LIFT Conference, a conference about the challenges and opportunities of technology in society
- London International Festival of Theatre|London International Festival of Theatre (LIFT)
- ''De Lift'' (The Lift), a 1983 horror film by Dick Maas in '''music''':
- Lift (band), a German rock band
- Lift (Audio Adrenaline album)|''Lift'' (Audio Adrenaline album) (2001)
- Lift (Love and Rockets album)|''Lift'' (Love and Rockets album) (1998)
- Lift (Poets of the Fall song)|"Lift" (Poets of the Fall song), a 2004 single
- Lift (Sister Hazel album)|''Lift'' (Sister Hazel album) (2004)
- Lift (Shannon Noll album)|''Lift'' (Shannon Noll album) (2005)
    - Lift (Shannon Noll song)|"Lift" (Shannon Noll song), the title track of Shannon Noll's album of the same name
Lift may also refer to:
- Airlift, in logistics, the act of transporting people or cargo from point to point using aircraft
- Elevator, called a lift in British English, a device used for raising and lowering people or goods
    - Rack lift, a type of elevator
    - Ski lift, an aerial or surface lift for uphill transport
    - Space elevator, a hypothetical structure for transporting material from a planet's surface into space
    - Wheelchair lift (also called a "platform lift"), a powered device to assist a person in a wheelchair in passing a vertical barrier.
- Elevator shoe, an insole device that makes a person appear taller
- Figure skating lifts
- Forklift, a trucking device
- Hitchhiking, a form of transport in which the traveller tries to get a lift (or ride) from another traveller
- Suspension lift, an automobile modification to increase the ride height
- Homotopy lifting property, in mathematics, a unique path over a map
- Retake or lift, a symbol used in musical notation
- LIFT (Logically Integrated FORTRAN Translator), a program for the UNIVAC 1108 that converted FORTRAN II source code to FORTRAN V source code

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