Lifting may refer to: *

Manual handling of loads Manual handling of loads (MHL) or manual material handling (MMH) involves the use of the human body to lift, lower, carry or transfer Mechanical load, loads. The average person is exposed to manual lifting of loads in the work place, in recrea ...

*Raising objects upwards, for example with lifting equipment *

Weightlifting Weightlifting or weight lifting generally refers to physical exercises and sports in which people lift weights, often in the form of dumbbells, barbells or machines. People engage in weightlifting for a variety of different reasons. These can ...

, lifting weights for exercise and sport, including: **

Olympic weightlifting Weightlifting (often known as Olympic weightlifting) is a competitive strength athletics, strength sport in which athletes compete in lifting a barbell loaded with weight plates from the ground to overhead, with the aim of successfully lifting t ...

, an Olympic sport that tests explosive strength **

Powerlifting Powerlifting is a competitive strength athletics, strength sport that consists of three attempts at maximal weight on three lifts: Squat (exercise), squat, bench press, and deadlift. As in the sport of Olympic weightlifting, it involves the athle ...

, a sport that tests limit strength **

Weight training Strength training, also known as weight training or resistance training, is exercise designed to improve physical strength. It is often associated with the lifting of weights. It can also incorporate techniques such as bodyweight exercises ( ...

, a way of increasing strength * An undesirable type of movement in the sport of

racewalking Race walking, or racewalking, is a long-distance discipline within the sport of athletics. Although a foot race, it is different from running in that one foot must appear to be in contact with the ground at all times. Race judges carefully asses ...

Shoplifting Shoplifting (also known as shop theft, shop fraud, retail theft, or retail fraud) is the theft of goods from a retail establishment during business hours. The terms ''shoplifting'' and ''shoplifter'' are not usually defined in law, and genera ...

, an unnoticed theft of goods from an open retail establishment * Facelifting, a type of cosmetic surgery *

Lift Lift or LIFT may refer to: Physical devices * Elevator, or lift, a device used for raising and lowering people or goods ** Paternoster lift, a type of lift using a continuous chain of cars which do not stop ** Patient lift, or Hoyer lift, mobile ...

, a morphism in mathematics * Lifting theory, a notion in measure theory *

Lifting scheme The lifting scheme is a technique for both designing wavelets and performing the discrete wavelet transform (DWT). In an implementation, it is often worthwhile to merge these steps and design the wavelet filters ''while'' performing the wavelet tr ...

(wavelets) *

Lambda lifting Lambda lifting is a meta-process that restructures a computer program so that functions are defined independently of each other in a global scope. An individual ''lift'' transforms a local function (subroutine) into a global function. It is a tw ...

, meta-process that defines functions independently of each other in a global scope * Taking an inference rule in propositional logic and adapting it for predicate logic * Type lifting, adding the special value to the scope of a type

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