lifter
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈlɪftə/
Etymology 1
From lift + -er.
Noun
lifter (plural lifters)
- Someone or something that lifts or assists in lifting.
- (weightlifting) A weightlifter.
- 2010, Eric Velazquez, "Power Pairings", Reps! 17:83
- While some lifters insist that supersets must consist of consecutive exercises for the same bodypart, others would bet their weight belts that supersets involve opposing bodyparts.
- 2010, Eric Velazquez, "Power Pairings", Reps! 17:83
- (cricket) A delivery that bounces well off the pitch.
- 1990, Ashes: Battles and Bellylaughs, Byron Bay: Swan Publishing, page 148:
- When he dismissed Keith Miller, caught at short leg off a lifter, I turned round to Tony Lock[.]
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- A spatula.
- A thief.
- c. 1602, Shakespeare, William, Troilus and Cressida, act 1, scene 2, line 118:
- Is he so young a man, and so old a lifter?
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- An ionocraft.
Synonyms
- (spatula): fish slice, spatula, turner
- (thief): See Thesaurus:thief
Translations
someone or something that lifts
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weightlifter — see weightlifter
spatula — see spatula
Etymology 2
From filter with the first syllable reversed. Modelled on the derivation of cepstrum from spectrum.
Noun
lifter (plural lifters)
- (signal processing) A filter that operates on a cepstrum.
Anagrams
- Trefil, filter, filtre, firtle, relift, trifle
Dutch
Etymology
From liften + -er.
Pronunciation
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Noun
lifter m (plural lifters, diminutive liftertje n, feminine liftster)
- hitchhiker
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /lif.te/
Audio (file)
Verb
lifter
- to give a facelift to
- (sports) to lift the ball (over an opponent)
Conjugation
Conjugation of lifter (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive | simple | lifter | |||||
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compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
present participle or gerund1 | simple | liftant /lif.tɑ̃/ | |||||
compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
past participle | lifté /lif.te/ | ||||||
singular | plural | ||||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
(simple tenses) | present | lifte /lift/ | liftes /lift/ | lifte /lift/ | liftons /lif.tɔ̃/ | liftez /lif.te/ | liftent /lift/ |
imperfect | liftais /lif.tɛ/ | liftais /lif.tɛ/ | liftait /lif.tɛ/ | liftions /lif.tjɔ̃/ | liftiez /lif.tje/ | liftaient /lif.tɛ/ | |
past historic2 | liftai /lif.te/ | liftas /lif.ta/ | lifta /lif.ta/ | liftâmes /lif.tam/ | liftâtes /lif.tat/ | liftèrent /lif.tɛʁ/ | |
future | lifterai /lif.tə.ʁe/ | lifteras /lif.tə.ʁa/ | liftera /lif.tə.ʁa/ | lifterons /lif.tə.ʁɔ̃/ | lifterez /lif.tə.ʁe/ | lifteront /lif.tə.ʁɔ̃/ | |
conditional | lifterais /lif.tə.ʁɛ/ | lifterais /lif.tə.ʁɛ/ | lifterait /lif.tə.ʁɛ/ | lifterions /lif.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ | lifteriez /lif.tə.ʁje/ | lifteraient /lif.tə.ʁɛ/ | |
(compound tenses) | present perfect | present indicative of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect | imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle | ||||||
past anterior2 | past historic of avoir + past participle | ||||||
future perfect | future of avoir + past participle | ||||||
conditional perfect | conditional of avoir + past participle | ||||||
subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il, qu’elle | que nous | que vous | qu’ils, qu’elles | |
(simple tenses) | present | lifte /lift/ | liftes /lift/ | lifte /lift/ | liftions /lif.tjɔ̃/ | liftiez /lif.tje/ | liftent /lift/ |
imperfect2 | liftasse /lif.tas/ | liftasses /lif.tas/ | liftât /lif.ta/ | liftassions /lif.ta.sjɔ̃/ | liftassiez /lif.ta.sje/ | liftassent /lif.tas/ | |
(compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | – | – | ||||
simple | — | lifte /lift/ | — | liftons /lif.tɔ̃/ | liftez /lif.te/ | — | |
compound | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | |
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en. | |||||||
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). |
Further reading
- “lifter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.