lifter

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈlɪftə/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -ɪftə(ɹ)

Etymology 1

From lift +‎ -er.

Noun

lifter (plural lifters)

1. Someone or something that lifts or assists in lifting.
   1. (weightlifting) A weightlifter.

      heavy lifters

      • 2010, Eric Velazquez, “Power Pairings”, in 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.

   3. A tappet.

      solid lifters;   hydraulic lifters

   4. (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[.]

   5. A spatula.
   6. A thief.

      Synonyms: see Thesaurus:thief

      an inveterate lifter

      • c. 1602, William Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida, act 1, scene 2, line 118:

        Is he so young a man, and so old a lifter?

   8. An ionocraft.

Synonyms

• (spatula): fish slice, spatula, turner
• (thief): See Thesaurus:thief

Derived terms

• asslifter
• bit lifter
• cake lifter
• chemise lifter
• child lifter
• ego lifter
• foot lifter
• lid-lifter
• mortgage lifter
• powerlifter
• shirt lifter
• shoplifter
• sneck lifter
• stain lifter
• tack lifter
• tacklifter
• tack lifter
• weightlifter

Translations

someone or something that lifts

Catalan: elevador m Finnish: nostaja (fi) (someone), nostin (fi) (something) Irish: ardaitheoir m Polish: lewar (pl) m

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)

1. (signal processing) A filter that operates on a cepstrum.

Anagrams

• fertil, Trefil, firtle, Filter, filter, relift, filtre, trifle

Dutch

Etymology

From liften +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Noun

lifter m (plural lifters, diminutive liftertje n, feminine liftster)

1. hitchhiker

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lif.te/

• Audio:

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• Audio (France (Somain)):

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Verb

lifter

1. to give a facelift to
2. (sports) to lift the ball (over an opponent)

Conjugation

Conjugation of lifter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	lifter
	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		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
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: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (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.