According to Herodotus, the Persian fleet initially numbered 1,207 triremes â¢ The Greek fleet numbered 366 triremes â¢ Significance of the battle: it marked the turning point of the war.
lifting (plural liftings) 1  The action or process by which something is lifted; elevation. ( 2 sports) Weightlifting; a form of exercise in which weights are lifted. ( 3 medicin) Plastic surgery for tightening facial tissues and improving the facial appearance.
Lift. To raise; to take up. To lift a promissory note (a written commitment to pay a sum of money on a certain date) is to terminate the obligation by paying its amount. To lift the bar of the Statute of Limitations is to remove, by some sufficient act or Acknowledgment, the obstruction that it interposes. For example, some states will not permit an action to be instituted on a debt owed after ten years from the date of the debt.