Lift
Lift verb - To move or extend upward.
Usage example: once the sun started to cut through the morning fog, the colorful hot-air balloons began to lift off from the field
How words are described
| old | old lift | old scale |
| exact | exact lift | exact scale |
| small | small lift | small scale |
| actual | actual lift | actual scale |
| Other adjectives: massive, large, personal, major, greater, different, talking. | ||
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
- Champions uses a logarithmic scale for strength; a Strength of 300 is actually enough to lift, oh, a smallish mountain range.
Source: Statistically Speaking -
The Growth advantage uses what could be called the square/square law: strength measured in weight you can lift only needs to scale with the square of height.
Source: Tabletop Game / GURPS -
And on a lesser scale, once she's reading she tends to be oblivious to most things (such as being used as a weight-lift by Yang, or that Ruby is fighting off-screen with a Grimm), which wasn't the case in the main show.
Source: Web Animation / RWBY Chibi
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