Dictionary Definition
uplift
Noun
1 (geology) a rise of land to a higher elevation
(as in the process of mountain building) [syn: upheaval, upthrow, upthrust]
2 a brassiere that lifts and supports the
breasts
Verb
1 fill with high spirits; fill with optimism;
"Music can uplift your spirits" [syn: elate, lift up, pick up, intoxicate] [ant: depress]
2 lift up from the earth, as by geologic forces;
"the earth's movement uplifted this part of town"
3 lift up or elevate
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
- (verb): ŭplĭftʹ, /ʌpˈlɪft/, /Vp"lIft/
- (adjective, noun): ŭpʹlĭft, /ˈʌplɪft/, /"VplIft/
Verb
Adjective
uplift rfc-split upliftedNoun
Translations
act of being uplifted
tectonic upheaval
brassiere that raises the breasts
Extensive Definition
Uplift may refer to:
- Biological
uplift, the theoretical prospect of upgrading the capacities of
non-human animals or other intelligences
- Uplift Universe, the setting for a series of novels by David Brin in which Biological Uplift is a central aspect
- Stellar uplift, the theoretical prospect of moving a stellar mass
- Tectonic uplift, a geological process
- Uplift factor, or simply "uplift", the adjustments to employee salaries or benefits, especially in countries of the British Commonwealth
- Uplifting trance, a musical genre similar to progressive trance
- "Up Lift", a song by Pantera from their 2000 album Reinventing the Steel
uplift in Dutch: Uplift
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
Great Leap Forward, abruptness, acclivity, acculturate, advance, advancement, aggrandize, ameliorate, amelioration, amend, amendment, anabasis, apotheose, apotheosis, apotheosize, ascension, ascent, assumption, bear up, beatification, beatify, better, bettering, betterment, boost, bring forward, buoy, buoy up, canonization, canonize, cast up, civilize, clamber, climb, climbing, crown, deification, deify, edify, educate, elate, elevate, elevation, emend, enhance, enhancement, enlighten, ennoble, enrich, enrichment, enshrine, enshrinement, enthrone, erect, erection, escalade, escalate, escalation, eugenics, euthenics, exalt, exaltation, fatten, favor, float, float high, flush, forward, foster, fountain, furtherance, glamorize, glorify, go straight, gush, gyring up, headway, heave, heft, height, heighten, heist, hike, hoick, hoist, hold up, illume, illumine, immortalize, improve, improve upon, improvement, increase, irradiate, jerk up, jet, jump, knock up, lard, leap, levitate, levitation, lift, lift up, lifting, lionize, lob, loft, magnify, make an improvement,
make legendary, meliorate, melioration, mend, mending, mount, mounting, nurture, perk up, pick up,
pickup, pitch, precipitousness,
preferment, progress, progression, promote, promotion, raise, raise aloft, raise up,
raising, rear, rear aloft, rear up, rearing, recovery, refine upon, reform, restoration, revival, ride high, rise, rising, rising ground, rocketing
up, saint, saltation, sanctify, set up, shooting up,
sky, soaring, socialize, spout, spring, spurt, stand upright, steepness, stick up,
straighten out, surge,
sursum corda, sustain,
take up, takeoff, taking
off, throne, throw up,
transfigure,
transform, up, upbear, upbeat, upbuoy, upbuoying, upcast, upclimb, upcoming, updraft, upend, upgang, upgo, upgoing, upgrade, upgrowth, upheaval, upheave, uphill, uphoist, uphold, upleap, uplifting, upping, upraise, uprear, uprearing, upright, uprisal, uprise, uprising, uprush, upshoot, upslope, upsurge, upsurgence, upsweep, upswing, upthrow, upthrust, uptrend, upward mobility,
vault, verticalness, waft, zooming