Cradle vs. Lift — What's the Difference?

A small low bed for an infant, often furnished with rockers.

To direct or carry from a lower to a higher position; raise

The earliest period of life

To transport by air

A place of origin; a birthplace

To revoke by taking back; rescind

A framework of wood or metal used to support something, such as a ship undergoing construction or repair.

To bring an end to (a blockade or siege) by removing forces.

A framework used to protect an injured limb.

To cease (artillery fire) in an area.

A low flat framework that rolls on casters, used by a mechanic working beneath an automobile. Also called creeper.

To raise in condition, rank, or esteem

The part of a telephone that contains the connecting switch upon which the receiver and mouthpiece unit is supported.

To uplift; elate

A frame projecting above the blade of a scythe, used to catch grain as it is cut so that it can be laid flat.

To remove (plants) from the ground for transplanting.

A scythe equipped with such a frame.

To project or sound in loud, clear tones

A boxlike device furnished with rockers, used for washing gold-bearing dirt.

(Informal) To steal; pilfer

To place or retain in a cradle.

(Informal) To copy from something already published; plagiarize

To care for or nurture in infancy.

To pay off or clear (a debt or mortgage, for example).

To hold or support protectively

To perform cosmetic surgery on (the face, for example), especially in order to remove wrinkles or sagging skin.

(Sports) In hockey, to keep possession of (the puck) by moving the stick back and forth to prevent the puck from sliding away.

(Sports) To hit (a golf ball) very high into the air.

(Sports) In lacrosse, to keep possession of (the ball) by moving the stick back and forth to prevent the ball from falling to the ground or resting too low in the webbing for easy release.

To pick up (a golf ball) to place it in a better lie.

To reap (grain) with a cradle.

To shoot or flip (a puck) so that it rises sharply off the ice.

To place or support (a ship, for example) in a cradle.

To rise; ascend.

To wash (gold-bearing dirt) in a cradle.

To yield to upward pressure

A bed or cot for a baby, oscillating on rockers or swinging on pivots.

To disappear or disperse by or as if by rising

(figuratively) The place of origin, or in which anything is nurtured or protected in the earlier period of existence.

To stop temporarily

(figuratively) Infancy, or very early life.

To become elevated; soar

An implement consisting of a broad scythe for cutting grain, with a set of long fingers parallel to the scythe, designed to receive the grain, and to lay it evenly in a swath.

The act or process of rising or raising to a higher position.

A tool used in mezzotint engraving, which, by a rocking motion, raises burrs on the surface of the plate, so preparing the ground.

Power or force available for raising

A framework of timbers, or iron bars, moving upon ways or rollers, used to support, lift, or carry ships or other vessels, heavy guns, etc., as up an inclined plane, or across a strip of land, or in launching a ship.

An organized effort or a flight transporting supplies or people by airplane; an airlift.

A case for a broken or dislocated limb.

The extent or height to which something is raised or rises; the amount of elevation.

A frame to keep the bedclothes from contact with the sensitive parts of an injured person.

The distance or space through which something is raised or rises.

(mining) A machine on rockers, used in washing out auriferous earth.

A rise or an elevation in the level of the ground.

(mining) A suspended scaffold used in shafts.

An elevation of the spirits

(carpentry) A ribbing for vaulted ceilings and arches intended to be covered with plaster.

A raised, high, or erect position, as of a part of the body

(nautical) A basket or apparatus in which, when a line has been made fast to a wrecked ship from the shore, the people are brought off from the wreck.

A machine or device designed to pick up, raise, or carry something.

A rest for the receiver of a telephone, or for certain computer hardware.

One of the layers of leather, rubber, or other material making up the heel of a shoe.

(contact juggling) A hand position allowing a contact ball to be held steadily on the back of the hand.

Chiefly British A passenger or cargo elevator.

A mechanical device for tilting and decanting a bottle of wine.

A ride in a vehicle given to help someone reach a destination

(transitive) To contain in or as if in a cradle.

Assistance or help

(transitive) To rock a baby to sleep.

A set of pumps used in a mine.

(transitive) To wrap protectively, to hold gently and protectively.

The component of the total aerodynamic force acting on an airfoil or on an entire aircraft or winged missile perpendicular to the relative wind and normally exerted in an upward direction, opposing the pull of gravity.

To lull or quieten, as if by rocking.

(ambitransitive) To raise or rise.

To nurse or train in infancy.

To steal.

(lacrosse) To rock the lacrosse stick back and forth in order to keep the ball in the head by means of centrifugal force.

To source directly without acknowledgement; to plagiarise.

To cut and lay (grain) with a cradle.

To arrest (a person).

To transport a vessel by means of a cradle.

(transitive) To remove (a ban, restriction, etc.).

To put ribs across the back of (a picture), to prevent the panels from warping.

(transitive) To alleviate, to lighten (pressure, tension, stress, etc.)

A bed or cot for a baby, oscillating on rockers or swinging on pivots; hence, the place of origin, or in which anything is nurtured or protected in the earlier period of existence; as, a cradle of crime; the cradle of liberty.

(transitive) to cause to move upwards.

Infancy, or very early life.

To lift weights; to weight-lift.

An implement consisting of a broad scythe for cutting grain, with a set of long fingers parallel to the scythe, designed to receive the grain, and to lay it evenly in a swath.

To try to raise something; to exert the strength for raising or bearing.

A tool used in mezzotint engraving, which, by a rocking motion, raises burrs on the surface of the plate, so preparing the ground.

To elevate or improve in rank, condition, etc.; often with up.

A framework of timbers, or iron bars, moving upon ways or rollers, used to support, lift, or carry ships or other vessels, heavy guns, etc., as up an inclined plane, or across a strip of land, or in launching a ship.

(obsolete) To bear; to support.

A case for a broken or dislocated limb.

To collect, as moneys due; to raise.

A machine on rockers, used in washing out auriferous earth; - also called a rocker.

(programming) To transform (a function) into a corresponding function in a different context.

The ribbing for vaulted ceilings and arches intended to be covered with plaster.

(finance) To buy a security or other asset previously offered for sale.

The basket or apparatus in which, when a line has been made fast to a wrecked ship from the shore, the people are brought off from the wreck.

To take (hounds) off the existing scent and move them to another spot.

To lay to rest, or rock, as in a cradle; to lull or quiet, as by rocking.

An act of lifting or raising.

To nurse or train in infancy.

The act of transporting someone in a vehicle; a ride; a trip.

To cut and lay with a cradle, as grain.

Mechanical device for vertically transporting goods or people between floors in a building.

To transport a vessel by means of a cradle.

An upward force, such as the force that keeps aircraft aloft.

To lie or lodge, as in a cradle.

(measurement) The difference in elevation between the upper pool and lower pool of a waterway, separated by lock.

A baby bed with sides and rockers

A thief.

Where something originated or was nurtured in its early existence;

(dance) The lifting of a dance partner into the air.

Birth of a person;

Permanent construction with a built-in platform that is lifted vertically.

A trough on rockers used by gold miners to shake earth in water in order to separate the gold

(figurative) An improvement in mood.

Hold gently and carefully;

The amount or weight to be lifted.

Bring up from infancy

The space or distance through which anything is lifted.

Hold or place in or as if in a cradle;

A rise; a degree of elevation.

Cut grain with a cradle scythe

A liftgate.

Wash in a cradle;

(nautical) A rope leading from the masthead to the extremity of a yard below, and used for raising or supporting the end of the yard.

Run with the stick

(engineering) One of the steps of a cone pulley.

(shoemaking) A layer of leather in the heel of a shoe.

(horology) That portion of the vibration of a balance during which the impulse is given.

Air.

The sky; the heavens; firmament; atmosphere.

The sky; the atmosphere; the firmament.

Act of lifting; also, that which is lifted.

The space or distance through which anything is lifted; as, a long lift.

Help; assistance, as by lifting.

That by means of which a person or thing lifts or is lifted

A rise; a degree of elevation; as, the lift of a lock in canals.

A lift gate. See Lift gate, below.

A rope leading from the masthead to the extremity of a yard below; - used for raising or supporting the end of the yard.

One of the steps of a cone pulley.

A layer of leather in the heel.

That portion of the vibration of a balance during which the impulse is given.

A brightening of the spirits; encouragement; as, the campaign workers got a lift from the President's endorsement.

To move in a direction opposite to that of gravitation; to raise; to elevate; to bring up from a lower place to a higher; to upheave; sometimes implying a continued support or holding in the higher place; - said of material things; as, to lift the foot or the hand; to lift a chair or a burden.

To raise, elevate, exalt, improve, in rank, condition, estimation, character, etc.; - often with up.

To bear; to support.

To collect, as moneys due; to raise.

To steal; to carry off by theft (esp. cattle); as, to lift a drove of cattle.

To try to raise something; to exert the strength for raising or bearing.

To rise; to become or appear raised or elevated; as, the fog lifts; the land lifts to a ship approaching it.

To steal; also, to live by theft.

The act of giving temporary assistance

The component of the aerodynamic forces acting on an airfoil that opposes gravity

The event of something being raised upward;

A wave that lifts the surface of the water or ground

A powered conveyance that carries skiers up a hill

A device worn in a shoe or boot to make the wearer look taller or to correct a shortened leg

One of the layers forming the heel of a shoe or boot

Lifting device consisting of a platform or cage that is raised and lowered mechanically in a vertical shaft in order to move people from one floor to another in a building

Plastic surgery to remove wrinkles and other signs of aging from your face; an incision is made near the hair line and skin is pulled back and excess tissue is excised;

Transportation of people or goods by air (especially when other means of access are unavailable)

A ride in a car;

The act of raising something;

Raise from a lower to a higher position;

Take hold of something and move it to a different location;

Move upwards;

Move upward;

Make audible;

Annul by recalling or rescinding;

Make off with belongings of others

Raise or haul up with or as if with mechanical help;

Invigorate or heighten;

Raise in rank or condition;

Take off or away by decreasing;

Rise up;

Pay off (a mortgage)

Take without referencing from someone else's writing or speech; of intellectual property

Take illegally;

Fly people or goods to or from places not accessible by other means;

Take (root crops) out of the ground;

Call to stop the hunt or to retire, as of hunting dogs

Rise upward, as from pressure or moisture;

Put an end to;

Remove (hair) by scalping

Remove from a seedbed or from a nursery;

Remove from a surface;

Perform cosmetic surgery on someone's face