Difference between Lift and Raise

What is the difference between Lift and Raise?

Lift as a verb is to raise. while Raise as a verb is to cause to rise.

Lift

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To raise. To steal. To remove (a ban, restriction, etc.).

Part of speech: noun

Definition: air. the sky; the heavens, firmament; the atmosphere. An act of lifting or raising. The act of transporting someone in a vehicle; a ride; a trip. Mechanical device for vertically transporting goods or people between floors in a building; an elevator. 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. The lifting of a dance partner into the air.

Example sentence: I don't want to waste anyone's time or money. I want to give people some truth and positive heart lift.

Raise

Part of speech: noun

Definition: An increase in wages or salary; a rise .A shoulder exercise in which the arms are elevated against resistance.A shot in which the delivered stone bumps another stone forward.A bet which increased the previous bet.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To cause to rise.To collect.To bring up; to grow.To respond to an initial bet by increasing the amount required to continue in the hand.To create; to constitute (a use, or a beneficial interest in property).To exponentiate, to involute.To extract (a subject or other verb argument) out of an inner clause.

Example sentence: It is not my nature, when I see a people borne down by the weight of their shackles - the oppression of tyranny - to make their life more bitter by heaping upon them greater burdens; but rather would I do all in my power to raise the yoke than to add anything that would tend to crush them.

We hope you now know whether to use Lift or Raise in your sentence.

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