1. An upward movement (especially a rhythmical rising and falling); SYN. heaving.
2. Throwing something heavy (with great effort); SYN. heaving.
3. The act of lifting something with great effort; SYN. heaving.
4. (Geology) A horizontal dislocation.

ETYM See Hob.
1. The center of a city; SYN. civic center, municipal center, down town.
2. The central part of a car wheel (or fan or propeller etc) through which the shaft or axle passes.
A central node in a star network to which all other nodes are connected by means of point-to-point communications links.

ETYM as. lyft air. Related to Loft.
(us elevator) Device for lifting passengers and goods vertically between the floors of a building. us inventor Elisha Graves Otis developed the first passenger lift, installed in 1857. The invention of the lift allowed the development of the skyscraper from the 1880s.
A lift usually consists of a platform or boxlike structure suspended by motor-driven cables with safety ratchets along the sides of the shaft. At first steam powered the movement, but hydraulic and then electric lifts were common from the early 1900s. Lift operators worked controls and gates until lifts became automatic.
1. A ride in a car.
2. A wave that lifts the surface of the water or ground; SYN. rise.
3. The act of giving temporary assistance.
4. The act of raising something; SYN. raise, heave, elevation.
5. (British) An elevator. + prikaži više

ETYM Old Eng. strok, strook, strak, from striken. Related to Strike.
1. A light touch.
2. A light touch with the hands; SYN. stroking.
3. A single complete movement.
4. Any one of the repeated movements of the limbs and body used for locomotion in swimming or rowing.
5. A mark made by a writing implement (as in cursive writing). + prikaži više

A stroke normally made in an upward direction.