Rise (verb)
To move, or appear to move, physically upwards relative to the ground.
Rise (verb)
To move upwards.
“We watched the balloon rise.”
Rise (verb)
To grow upward; to attain a certain height.
“This elm tree rises to a height of seventy feet.”
Rise (verb)
To slope upward.
“The path rises as you approach the foot of the hill.”
Rise (verb)
To appear to move upwards from behind the horizon of a planet as a result of the planet’s rotation.
“The sun was rising in the East.”
Rise (verb)
To become erect; to assume an upright position.
“to rise from a chair or from a fall”
Rise (verb)
To leave one’s bed; to get up.
Rise (verb)
To be resurrected.
“he rose from the grave;”
“he is risen!”
Rise (verb)
To increase in value or standing.
Rise (verb)
To terminate an official sitting; to adjourn.
“The committee rose after agreeing to the report.”
Rise (verb)
To attain a higher status.
Rise (verb)
Of a quantity, price, etc., to increase.
Rise (verb)
To become more and more dignified or forcible; to increase in interest or power; said of style, thought, or discourse.
“to rise in force of expression; to rise in eloquence;”
“a story rises in interest.”
Rise (verb)
To begin; to develop.
Rise (verb)
To ascend on a musical scale; to take a higher pitch.
“to rise a tone or semitone”
Rise (verb)
To develop.
Rise (verb)
To swell or puff up in the process of fermentation; to become light.
“Has that dough risen yet?”
Rise (verb)
To have its source (in a particular place).
Rise (verb)
To become perceptible to the senses, other than sight.
“a noise rose on the air;”
“odour rises from the flower”
Rise (verb)
To become agitated, opposed, or hostile; to go to war; to take up arms; to rebel.
Rise (verb)
To go up; to ascend; to climb.
“to rise a hill”
Rise (verb)
To cause to go up or ascend.
“to rise a fish, or cause it to come to the surface of the water”
“to rise a ship, or bring it above the horizon by approaching it”
Rise (verb)
To retire; to give up a siege.
Rise (verb)
To come; to offer itself.
Rise (verb)
To be lifted, or capable of being lifted, from the imposing stone without dropping any of the type; said of a form.
Rise (noun)
The process of or an action or instance of moving upwards or becoming greater.
“The rise of the tide.”
“There was a rise of nearly two degrees since yesterday.”
“Exercise is usually accompanied by a temporary rise in blood pressure.”
Rise (noun)
The process of or an action or instance of coming to prominence.
“The rise of the working class.”
“The rise of the printing press.”
“The rise of the feminists.”
Rise (noun)
An increase (in a quantity, price, etc).
Rise (noun)
The amount of material extending from waist to crotch in a pair of trousers or shorts.
“The rise of his pants was so low that his tailbone was exposed.”
Rise (noun)
An increase in someone’s pay rate; a raise (US).
“The governor just gave me a rise of two pound six.”
Rise (noun)
A small hill; used chiefly in place names.
Rise (noun)
An area of terrain that tends upward away from the viewer, such that it conceals the region behind it; a slope.
Rise (noun)
An angry reaction.
“I knew that would get a rise out of him.”
Raise (verb)
To cause to rise; to lift or elevate.
“to raise your hand if you want to say something; to raise your walking stick to defend yourself”
Raise (verb)
To form by the accumulation of materials or constituent parts; to build up; to erect.
“to raise a wall, or a heap of stones”
Raise (verb)
To cause something to come to the surface of the sea.
“The ship was raised ten years after it had sunk.”
Raise (verb)
To cause (the land or any other object) to seem higher by drawing nearer to it.
“to raise Sandy Hook light”
Raise (verb)
To make (bread, etc.) light, as by yeast or leaven.
Raise (verb)
To cause (a dead person) to live again, to cause to be undead.
“The magic spell raised the dead from their graves!”
Raise (verb)
To remove or break up (a blockade), either by withdrawing the ships or forces employed in enforcing it, or by driving them away or dispersing them.
Raise (verb)
To create, increase or develop.
“We need to raise the motivation level in the company.”
“to raise the quality of the products; to raise the price of goods”
Raise (verb)
To relinquish (a siege), or cause this to be done.
Raise (verb)
To collect or amass.
“to raise a lot of money for charity; to raise troops”
Raise (verb)
To bring up; to grow; to promote.
“We visited a farm where they raise chickens.”
“Chew with your mouth shut — were you raised in a barn?”
“to raise somebody to office”
Raise (verb)
To mention (a question, issue) for discussion.
“A few important questions were raised after the attack.”
Raise (verb)
To create; to constitute (a use, or a beneficial interest in property).
“There should be some consideration (i.e., payment or exchange) to raise a use.”
Raise (verb)
To establish contact with (e.g., by telephone or radio).
“Despite all the call congestion, she was eventually able to raise the police.”
Raise (verb)
To respond to a bet by increasing the amount required to continue in the hand.
“John bet, and Julie raised, requiring John to put in more money.”
Raise (verb)
To exponentiate, to involute.
“Two raised to the fifth power equals 32.”
Raise (verb)
To extract (a subject or other verb argument) out of an inner clause.
Raise (verb)
To produce a vowel with the tongue positioned closer to the roof of the mouth.
Raise (verb)
To increase the nominal value of (a cheque, money order, etc.) by fraudulently changing the writing or printing in which the sum payable is specified.
Raise (verb)
To throw (an exception).
“A division by zero will raise an exception.”
Raise (noun)
An increase in wages or salary; a rise UK.
“The boss gave me a raise.”
Raise (noun)
A shoulder exercise in which the arms are elevated against resistance.
Raise (noun)
A shot in which the delivered stone bumps another stone forward.
Raise (noun)
A bet that increases the previous bet.
Raise (noun)
A cairn or pile of stones.