What is "facelift"

n. 1 plastic surgery to the face to remove wrinkles, fat or various signs of aging. 2 By extension, any activity undertaken to renew, revamp, update, or improve the appearance of something. vb. To perform a facelift upon.

1. n. plastic surgery to remove wrinkles and other signs of aging from your face; an incision is made near the hair line and skin is pulled back and excess tissue is excised; "some actresses have more than one face lift" [syn: face lift, lift, face lifting, cosmetic surgery, rhytidectomy, rhytidoplasty, nip and tuck]

2. a renovation that improves the outward appearance (as of a building) [syn: face lift, face lifting]

Facelift is the debut studio album by the American rock band Alice in Chains. The album was released on August 21, 1990. The album was certified platinum and has gone on to be certified double-platinum by the RIAA for shipments of two million copies in the United States.

Facelift is the common name for rhytidectomy, a cosmetic surgery procedure.

Facelift may also refer to:

• Facelift (product), the revival of a product through cosmetic means such as changing its appearance
• Facelift (automobile), minor revisions to a car model in the middle of its production run
• Facelift (album), a 1990 album by Alice in Chains
• Facelift (TV series), a New Zealand comedy show
• "Face Lift" (CSI), an episode of the television show CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
• "Facelift", a song by Soft Machine from the album Third

A facelift is the revival of a product through cosmetic means, for example by changing its appearance while leaving its underlying engineering or design intact.

Web sites, magazines or other industries may also be facelifted, for instance when their titles and products appear dated.

The term probably comes from the same term used in plastic surgery.

Facelift is a half-hour topical comedy show produced for New Zealand's TV One by the Gibson Group.

Drawing on The Gibson Group's extensive experience with a wide range of comedy productions, including Public Eye, Skitz, Telly Laughs, Newsflash and The Semisis, Facelift is a sketch comedy employing live actors in rubber puppet masks. Pulling off the transition from puppet caricatures to human caricatures was a complex and ambitious task. A small group of actors were cast for voice and performance skills. Moulds were then taken of their heads and prosthetic masks created of various New Zealand politicians and celebrities, such as Helen Clark, Don Brash and Kate Hawkesby. New topical characters are periodically introduced.

The fourth series screened from July 2007 to September 2007.

An automotive facelift (also known as mid-generational refresh, minor model change or minor model update, life cycle impulse) comprises changes to a car, truck or bus's styling during its production run – including, to highly variable degree, new sheetmetal, interior design elements or mechanical changes – allowing a carmaker to freshen a model without complete redesign.

A facelift retains the basic styling and platform of the car, with aesthetic alterations, e.g., changes to the front fascia ( grille, headlights), taillights, bumpers, instrument panel and center console, and various body or interior trim accessories. Mechanical changes may or may not occur concurrently with the facelift (e.g., changes to the engine, suspension or transmission).

A facelift may include a change to the vehicle's name; such was the case when Ford renamed their Five Hundred model to be their Ford Taurus in 2008. The facelifts of the Citroën DS3, DS4 and DS5 even changed the brand under which these models fell to DS instead of Citroën.