lifter

English

Etymology

From lift +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

(UK) IPA^(key): /ˈlɪftə/

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.
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?

Synonyms

(spatula): fish slice, spatula, turner
(thief): For semantic relationships of this sense, see thief in the Thesaurus.

Translations

someone or something that lifts

Finnish: nostaja (fi) (someone), nostin (fi) (something)

Irish: ardaitheoir m

weightlifter — see weightlifter

spatula — see spatula

Anagrams

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/

Verb

lifter

To give a facelift to
(sports) To lift the ball (over an opponent)

Conjugation

Conjugation of lifter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

		simple			compound
infinitive		lifter			avoir lifté
gerund		en liftant			en ayant lifté
present participle		liftant /lif.tɑ̃/
past participle		lifté /lif.te/
person		singular			plural
person		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il	nous	vous	ils
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 historic¹	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	Use the present tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	pluperfect	Use the imperfect tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	past anterior¹	Use the past historic tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	future perfect	Use the future tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	conditional perfect	Use the conditional tense of avoir followed by the past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il	que nous	que vous	qu’ils
simple tenses	present	lifte /lift/	liftes /lift/	lifte /lift/	liftions /lif.tjɔ̃/	liftiez /lif.tje/	liftent /lift/
simple tenses	imperfect¹	liftasse /lif.tas/	liftasses /lif.tas/	liftât /lif.ta/	liftassions /lif.ta.sjɔ̃/	liftassiez /lif.ta.sje/	liftassent /lif.tas/
compound tenses	past	Use the present subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle
compound tenses	pluperfect¹	Use the imperfect subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
imperative		—	lifte /lift/	—	liftons /lif.tɔ̃/	liftez /lif.te/	—
¹literary tenses

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