"lifter" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈlɪftə/ [UK] Forms: lifters [plural]
Rhymes: -ɪftə(ɹ) Etymology: From lift + -er. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|lift|er}} lift + -er Head templates: {{en-noun}} lifter (plural lifters)
  1. Someone or something that lifts or assists in lifting. Translations (someone or something that lifts): nostaja (english: someone) (Finnish), nostin (english: something) (Finnish), ardaitheoir [masculine] (Irish), lewar [masculine] (Polish)
    Sense id: en-lifter-en-noun-WwKBFRyV Disambiguation of 'someone or something that lifts': 74 7 6 10 0 3
  2. (weightlifting) A weightlifter. Categories (topical): Weightlifting
    Sense id: en-lifter-en-noun-lDD9Rw52 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -er Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 2 17 19 10 1 25 25 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -er: 5 20 17 30 2 26 Topics: hobbies, lifestyle, sports, weightlifting
  3. (cricket) A delivery that bounces well off the pitch. Categories (topical): Cricket
    Sense id: en-lifter-en-noun-ui7pzsoP Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -er Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 2 17 19 10 1 25 25 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -er: 5 20 17 30 2 26 Topics: ball-games, cricket, games, hobbies, lifestyle, sports
  4. A spatula.
    Sense id: en-lifter-en-noun-oQXc0ggN Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -er Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 2 17 19 10 1 25 25 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -er: 5 20 17 30 2 26
  5. A thief. Synonyms (thief): thief
    Sense id: en-lifter-en-noun-rDjwVIAZ Disambiguation of 'thief': 0 0 0 0 100 0
  6. An ionocraft.
    Sense id: en-lifter-en-noun-UZzD3itj Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -er Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 2 17 19 10 1 25 25 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -er: 5 20 17 30 2 26
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: fish slice, spatula, turner

Noun

IPA: /ˈlɪftə/ [UK] Forms: lifters [plural]
Rhymes: -ɪftə(ɹ) Etymology: From filter with the first syllable reversed. Modelled on the derivation of cepstrum from spectrum. Etymology templates: {{m|en|filter}} filter, {{m|en|cepstrum}} cepstrum, {{m|en|spectrum}} spectrum Head templates: {{en-noun}} lifter (plural lifters)
  1. (signal processing) A filter that operates on a cepstrum. Categories (topical): Signal processing
    Sense id: en-lifter-en-noun-DZ4merAQ Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 2 17 19 10 1 25 25 Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences, signal-processing
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Inflected forms

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-09 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (4d5d0bb and edd475d). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.