Lifter vs. Spatula — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Lifter and Spatula
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Lifter
To direct or carry from a lower to a higher position; raise
Lift one's eyes.
Lifted the suitcase.
Spatula
A spatula is a broad, flat, flexible blade used to mix, spread and lift material including foods, drugs, plaster and paints. In medical applications, "spatula" may also be used synonymously with tongue depressor.The word spatula derives from the Latin word for a flat piece of wood or splint, a diminutive form of the Latin spatha, meaning 'broadsword', and hence can also refer to a tongue depressor.
Lifter
To transport by air
The helicopter lifted the entire team to the meet.
Spatula
A small implement having a straight handle and a broad, flexible blade that is used to mix or spread semiliquid substances
Used a spatula to apply the joint compound.
Lifter
To revoke by taking back; rescind
Lifted the embargo.
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Spatula
A small implement having an angled handle and a broad, flat blade that is used in cooking or serving food
Flipped the pancakes with a spatula.
Lifter
To bring an end to (a blockade or siege) by removing forces.
Spatula
Chiefly British A tongue depressor.
Lifter
To cease (artillery fire) in an area.
Spatula
A kitchen utensil consisting of a flat surface attached to a long handle, used for turning, lifting, or stirring food.
Lifter
To raise in condition, rank, or esteem
Work that lifted her in the eyes of her colleagues.
Spatula
(North America) A kitchen utensil consisting of a flexible surface attached to a long handle, used for scraping the sides of bowls.
Lifter
To uplift; elate
Your telephone call really lifted my spirits.
Spatula
(dated) A palette knife.
Lifter
To remove (plants) from the ground for transplanting.
Spatula
(chemistry) A thin hand tool, often made of nickel, for handling chemicals or other materials, when weighing, etc.
Lifter
To project or sound in loud, clear tones
Lifted their voices in song.
Spatula
A croupier's tool for turning up cards in a casino.
Lifter
(Informal) To steal; pilfer
A thief lifted my wallet.
Spatula
(entomology) A sclerotized, T-shaped plate in the prothorax of larvae of flies belonging to family Cecidomyiidae, the gall midges.
Lifter
(Informal) To copy from something already published; plagiarize
Lifted whole paragraphs from the encyclopedia.
Spatula
(transitive) To lift with or as if with a spatula.
Lifter
To pay off or clear (a debt or mortgage, for example).
Spatula
(transitive) To strike with a spatula.
Lifter
To perform cosmetic surgery on (the face, for example), especially in order to remove wrinkles or sagging skin.
Spatula
An implement shaped like a knife, flat, thin, and somewhat flexible, used for spreading paints, fine plasters, drugs in compounding prescriptions, etc. Cf. Palette knife, under Palette.
Lifter
(Sports) To hit (a golf ball) very high into the air.
Spatula
A turner with a narrow flexible blade
Lifter
To pick up (a golf ball) to place it in a better lie.
Spatula
A hand tool with a thin flexible blade used to mix or spread soft substances
Lifter
To shoot or flip (a puck) so that it rises sharply off the ice.
Lifter
To rise; ascend.
Lifter
To yield to upward pressure
These windows lift easily.
Lifter
To disappear or disperse by or as if by rising
By afternoon the smog had lifted.
Lifter
To stop temporarily
The rain lifted by morning.
Lifter
To become elevated; soar
Their spirits lifted when help came.
Lifter
The act or process of rising or raising to a higher position.
Lifter
Power or force available for raising
The lift of a pump.
Lifter
An organized effort or a flight transporting supplies or people by airplane; an airlift.
Lifter
The extent or height to which something is raised or rises; the amount of elevation.
Lifter
The distance or space through which something is raised or rises.
Lifter
A rise or an elevation in the level of the ground.
Lifter
An elevation of the spirits
The good news gave us a lift.
Lifter
A raised, high, or erect position, as of a part of the body
The lift of his chin.
Lifter
A machine or device designed to pick up, raise, or carry something.
Lifter
One of the layers of leather, rubber, or other material making up the heel of a shoe.
Lifter
Chiefly British A passenger or cargo elevator.
Lifter
A ride in a vehicle given to help someone reach a destination
Gave my friend a lift into town.
Lifter
Assistance or help
Gave her a lift with her heavy packages.
Lifter
A set of pumps used in a mine.
Lifter
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.
Lifter
Someone or something that lifts or assists in lifting.
Lifter
(weightlifting) A weightlifter.
Lifter
(cricket) A delivery that bounces well off the pitch.
Lifter
A spatula.
Lifter
A thief.
Lifter
An ionocraft.
Lifter
(signal processing) A filter that operates on a cepstrum.
Lifter
One who, or that which, lifts.
Lifter
A tool for lifting loose sand from the mold; also, a contrivance attached to a cope, to hold the sand together when the cope is lifted.
Lifter
An athlete who lifts barbells
Lifter
A thief who steals goods that are in a store
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