Lift vs. Paternoster — What's the Difference?

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

Often Paternoster The Lord's Prayer.

To transport by air

One of the large beads on a rosary on which the Lord's Prayer is said.

To revoke by taking back; rescind

A sequence of words spoken as a prayer or a magic formula.

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

A weighted fishing line having several jointed attachments for hooks connected by beadlike swivels.

To cease (artillery fire) in an area.

An elevator constructed of a series of doorless compartments hung on chains that move slowly and continuously, allowing passengers to step on and off at will.

To raise in condition, rank, or esteem

(Christianity) The Lord's Prayer, especially in a Roman Catholic context.

To uplift; elate

A slow, continuously moving lift or elevator consisting of a loop of open-fronted cabins running the height of a building.

To remove (plants) from the ground for transplanting.

(architecture) A bead-like ornament in mouldings.

To project or sound in loud, clear tones

(fishing) A tackle rig with a heavy sinker at the end of the line, and one or more hooks on traces at right angles spaced above the sinker.

(Informal) To steal; pilfer

A string of beads used in counting prayers that are said; a rosary.

(Informal) To copy from something already published; plagiarize

Every eleventh bead in a rosary, at which, while counting the beads, the Lord's Prayer is to be repeated.

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

A medieval artisan who crafted rosary beads or prayer nuts.

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

(archaic) A patent medicine, so named because salesmen would pray the Lord's Prayer over it before selling it.

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

To try to catch (fish, etc.) with a paternoster rig.

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

The Lord's prayer, so called from the first two words of the Latin version.

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

A beadlike ornament in moldings.

To rise; ascend.

A line with a row of hooks and bead-shaped sinkers.

To yield to upward pressure

An elevator of an inclined endless traveling chain or belt bearing buckets or shelves which ascend on one side loaded, and empty themselves at the top.

To disappear or disperse by or as if by rising

(Roman Catholic Church) the Lord's Prayer in Latin; translates as `our father'

To stop temporarily

A type of lift having a chain of open compartments that move continually in a loop so that (agile) passengers can step on or off at each floor

To become elevated; soar

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

Power or force available for raising

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

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

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

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

An elevation of the spirits

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

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

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

Chiefly British A passenger or cargo elevator.

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

Assistance or help

A set of pumps used in a mine.

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.

(ambitransitive) To raise or rise.

To steal.

To source directly without acknowledgement; to plagiarise.

To arrest (a person).

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

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

(transitive) to cause to move upwards.

To lift weights; to weight-lift.

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

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

(obsolete) To bear; to support.

To collect, as moneys due; to raise.

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

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

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

An act of lifting or raising.

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

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

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

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

A thief.

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

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

(figurative) An improvement in mood.

The amount or weight to be lifted.

The space or distance through which anything is lifted.

A rise; a degree of elevation.

A liftgate.

(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.

(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