Lift
Surface
Surface verb - To come to one's attention especially gradually or unexpectedly.
How words are described
| high | high lift | high surface |
| clear | clear lift | clear surface |
| solid | solid lift | solid surface |
| small | small lift | small surface |
| Other adjectives: actual, large, black, broken, available, vertical. | ||
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
- After failing to find the Captain, and being ambushed by Flood instead, you prepare to make your way back to the surface... but the lift you took when coming in is broken, and the other lift you find leads down.
Source: Boring Return Journey - Precision F-Strike/Atomic F-Bomb: Conveniently this turns out to be the password for the lift to the surface, supposedly know only by Her Excellency.
Source: Film / Sex Mission -
Slugterra is kept in the dark about the surface and vice-versa; the only known link between the two is the Shanes and the lift they use to travel between them.
Source: Western Animation / Slugterra
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