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Lifter

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Someone or something that lifts or assists in lifting.; A weightlifter.

    "heavy lifters"

  2. 2
    A filter that operates on a cepstrum.
  3. 3
    a thief who steals goods that are in a store wordnet
  4. 4
    Someone or something that lifts or assists in lifting.; A tappet.

    "solid lifters"

  5. 5
    an athlete who lifts barbells wordnet
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  1. 6
    Someone or something that lifts or assists in lifting.; A delivery that bounces well off the pitch.

    "When he dismissed Keith Miller, caught at short leg off a lifter, I turned round to Tony Lock[.]"

  2. 7
    Someone or something that lifts or assists in lifting.; A spatula.
  3. 8
    Someone or something that lifts or assists in lifting.; A thief.

    "an inveterate lifter"

  4. 9
    Someone or something that lifts or assists in lifting.; An ionocraft.

Etymology

Etymology 1

From lift + -er.

Etymology 2

From filter with the first syllable reversed. Modelled on the derivation of cepstrum from spectrum.

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