Examples:
Can you lift up the book off the table?
My arms are sore from lifting boxes into my closet all morning.
I lifted the bike to the roof of the car.
Turn left, lift your hand slightly and move it right.
She lifted her eyes from the paper to notice the room aglow from the sunset outside.
I believe my basement floor is lifting and cracking.
More than 80% of the elderly lifted from poverty by government programs.
Her latest novel has lifted her into the league of best-selling authors.
Jetmaker Airbus has lifted prices on its new aircraft by about 3.
Natural gas price hike lifted tax revenue.
With better tools and machinery it is possible now to lift the production of final goods.
Mappings:
VerbNet: put_direction-9.4
FrameNet: Body_movement
PropBank: lift.01
WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 1, 2, 3, 8, 10, 12, 19
WordNet Verb Particle Constructions, Multiword Expressions:
lift_up 1
Examples:
Suddenly, a great number of black planes lifted off the ground like a flock of birds.
Space lab plans lifted off today.
Sales lift off as the economy grows by up to 6 per cent this year.
Mappings:
VerbNet: NM
FrameNet: NM
PropBank: lift.01
WordNet Verb Particle Constructions, Multiword Expressions:
lift_off 1
Examples:
There is still plenty to see when the fog lifts later this morning.
Then, somehow, the fog lifted and math suddenly made sense.
She had been grounded for the weekend, but her mother lifted the punishment on Mother's Day.
If we can help lift the ban here, maybe we can help it in other places.
Her depression has lifted.
Mappings:
VerbNet: NM
FrameNet: Cause_to_end
PropBank: lift.02
WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 4, 6, 11, 18, 20
Examples:
Lucius walked over to the body and lifted the money from his pocket.
They had both lifted the paragraph from a textbook, verbatim.
They threatened to lift the cattle and plunder the other property about the temple.
Mappings:
VerbNet: steal-10.5
FrameNet: Theft
PropBank: lift.02
WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 7, 14, 15, 21, 23
Examples:
The choir lifted their voices in song.
Looking over the fields, he lifted a war-cry to the sky.
They lifted a cry of lamentation for those who died in the battle.
Mappings:
VerbNet: NM
FrameNet: NM
PropBank: lift.01
WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 5
WordNet Verb Particle Constructions, Multiword Expressions:
lift_up 2
Examples:
A cup of hot tea will lift your spirits.
His low spirits lifted after a few songs.
She said something with the intent of embarrassing me again to lift her ego.
I sing that song everday and your music has lifted up hearts.
The article is informative enough, but it's a bit dull. We need something to lift it.
Mappings:
VerbNet: NM
FrameNet: NM
PropBank: lift.01
WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 9
WordNet Verb Particle Constructions, Multiword Expressions:
lift_up 2
Examples:
He lifted potatoes, beets, and rutabagas from storage in the loose soil.
Lifting tulip bulbs over the summer is indeed a good thing to do.
When I lifted a scoop of pasta out from the pot, the melted cheese strings formed a web.
Mappings:
VerbNet: NM
FrameNet: NM
PropBank: lift.01
WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 17, 22
WordNet Verb Particle Constructions, Multiword Expressions:
lift_out 1
Examples:
The food was lifted to the prisoners by an old timey hand pulled dumb waiter.
The rescue helicopter lifted the stranded climbers to safety.
Mappings:
VerbNet: NM
FrameNet: NM
PropBank: lift.01
WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 16
Examples:
A different kind of suture could lift the face in a more efficient way.
The barbs on one end of the thread grab and lift the skin.
The brow can be lifted by removing excess.
Mappings:
VerbNet: NM
FrameNet: NM
PropBank: lift.01
WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 24
Examples:
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Mappings:
VerbNet: NM
FrameNet: NM
PropBank: NM
WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 13