Lift vs. Remove — What's the Difference?

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

Take (something) away or off from the position occupied

To transport by air

Abolish or get rid of

To revoke by taking back; rescind

Be distant from

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

Separated by a particular number of steps of descent

To cease (artillery fire) in an area.

A degree of remoteness or separation

To raise in condition, rank, or esteem

A form or division in some British schools

To uplift; elate

To move from a place or position occupied

To remove (plants) from the ground for transplanting.

To transfer or convey from one place to another

To project or sound in loud, clear tones

To take off

(Informal) To steal; pilfer

To take away; withdraw

(Informal) To copy from something already published; plagiarize

To do away with; eliminate

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

To dismiss from an office or position.

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

To change one's place of residence or business; move

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

To go away; depart.

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

To be removable

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

The act of removing; removal.

To rise; ascend.

Distance or degree of separation or remoteness

To yield to upward pressure

(transitive) To delete.

To disappear or disperse by or as if by rising

(transitive) To move something from one place to another, especially to take away.

To stop temporarily

To replace a dish within a course.

To become elevated; soar

(transitive) To murder.

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

To dismiss a batsman.

Power or force available for raising

(transitive) To discard, set aside, especially something abstract (a thought, feeling, etc.).

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

To depart, leave.

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

(intransitive) To change one's residence; to move.

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

To dismiss or discharge from office.

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

The act of removing something.

An elevation of the spirits

A dish served to replace an earlier one during a meal; a part of a new course.

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

(British) at some public schools A division of the school, especially the form prior to last

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

A step or gradation (as in the phrase "at one remove")

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

Distance in time or space; interval.

Chiefly British A passenger or cargo elevator.

Emotional distance or indifference.

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

(dated) The transfer of one's home or business to another place; a move.

Assistance or help

The act of resetting a horse's shoe.

A set of pumps used in a mine.

To move away from the position occupied; to cause to change place; to displace; as, to remove a building.

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 cause to leave a person or thing; to cause to cease to be; to take away; hence, to banish; to destroy; to put an end to; to kill; as, to remove a disease.

(ambitransitive) To raise or rise.

To dismiss or discharge from office; as, the President removed many postmasters.

To steal.

To change place in any manner, or to make a change in place; to move or go from one residence, position, or place to another.

To source directly without acknowledgement; to plagiarise.

The act of removing; a removal.

To arrest (a person).

The transfer of one's business, or of one's domestic belongings, from one location or dwelling house to another; - in the United States usually called a move.

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

The state of being removed.

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

That which is removed, as a dish removed from table to make room for something else.

(transitive) to cause to move upwards.

The distance or space through which anything is removed; interval; distance; stage; hence, a step or degree in any scale of gradation; specifically, a division in an English public school; as, the boy went up two removes last year.

To lift weights; to weight-lift.

The act of resetting a horse's shoe.

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

Degree of figurative distance or separation;

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

Remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, taking off, etc. or remove something abstract;

(obsolete) To bear; to support.

Remove from a position or an office

To collect, as moneys due; to raise.

Dispose of;

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

Cause to leave;

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

Shift the position or location of, as for business, legal, educational, or military purposes;

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

Go away or leave;

An act of lifting or raising.

Kill intentionally and with premeditation;

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

Get rid of something abstract;

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