lifter

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English

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From lift +‎ -er.

Noun

lifter (plural lifters)

  1. Someone or something that lifts or assists in lifting.
  2. (weightlifting) A weightlifter.
    • 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. (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[.]
  4. A spatula.
  5. A thief.
  6. An ionocraft.
Synonyms
Derived terms
Translations
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

Dutch

Etymology

From liften +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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

  1. hitchhiker

French

Pronunciation

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 , Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

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