Difference between Rear and Lift

What is the difference between Rear and Lift?

Rear as a noun is the back or hindmost part; that which is behind, or last on order; - opposed to front. while Lift as a noun is air.

Rear

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Being behind, or in the hindmost part; hindmost; as, the rear rank of a company.

Part of speech: adverb

Definition: early; soon

Part of speech: noun

Definition: The back or hindmost part; that which is behind, or last on order; - opposed to front. Specifically, the part of an army or fleet which comes last, or is stationed behind the rest. The buttocks, a creature's bottom

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To raise physically; to lift up; to cause to rise, to elevate. To construct by building; to set up; as, to rear defenses or houses; to rear one government on the ruins of another. To raise spiritually; to lift up; to elevate morally. To lift and take up. To bring up to maturity, as offspring; to educate; to instruct; to foster. To breed and raise; as, to rear cattle (cattle-rearing). To rouse; to strip up. To rise up on the hind legs, as a bolting horse. To sodomize

Example sentence: The life of an uneducated man is as useless as the tail of a dog which neither covers its rear end, nor protects it from the bites of insects.

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: We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.

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

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