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English Dictionary: Raise |
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3 results for Raise |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: |
- raise
- n
- the amount a salary is increased; "he got a 3% raise"; "he
got a wage hike"
Synonym(s): raise, rise, wage hike, hike, wage increase, salary increase
- an upward slope or grade (as in a road); "the car couldn't make it up the rise"
Synonym(s): ascent, acclivity, rise, raise, climb, upgrade Antonym(s): declension, declination, decline, declivity, descent, downslope, fall
- increasing the size of a bet (as in poker); "I'll see your raise and double it"
- the act of raising something; "he responded with a lift of his eyebrow"; "fireman learn several different raises for getting ladders up"
Synonym(s): lift, raise, heave
- v
- raise the level or amount of something; "raise my salary";
"raise the price of bread"
- raise from a lower to a higher position; "Raise your hands"; "Lift a load"
Synonym(s): raise, lift, elevate, get up, bring up Antonym(s): bring down, get down, let down, lower, take down
- cause to be heard or known; express or utter; "raise a shout"; "raise a protest"; "raise a sad cry"
- collect funds for a specific purpose; "The President raised several million dollars for his college"
- cultivate by growing, often involving improvements by means of agricultural techniques; "The Bordeaux region produces great red wines"; "They produce good ham in Parma"; "We grow wheat here"; "We raise hogs here"
Synonym(s): grow, raise, farm, produce
- bring up; "raise a family"; "bring up children"
Synonym(s): rear, raise, bring up, nurture, parent
- summon into action or bring into existence, often as if by magic; "raise the specter of unemployment"; "he conjured wild birds in the air"; "call down the spirits from the mountain"
Synonym(s): raise, conjure, conjure up, invoke, evoke, stir, call down, arouse, bring up, put forward, call forth
- move upwards; "lift one's eyes"
Synonym(s): lift, raise
- construct, build, or erect; "Raise a barn"
Synonym(s): raise, erect, rear, set up, put up Antonym(s): dismantle, level, pull down, rase, raze, take down, tear down
- call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses); "arouse pity"; "raise a smile"; "evoke sympathy"
Synonym(s): arouse, elicit, enkindle, kindle, evoke, fire, raise, provoke
- create a disturbance, especially by making a great noise; "raise hell"; "raise the roof"; "raise Cain"
- raise in rank or condition; "The new law lifted many people from poverty"
Synonym(s): lift, raise, elevate
- increase; "This will enhance your enjoyment"; "heighten the tension"
Synonym(s): enhance, heighten, raise
- give a promotion to or assign to a higher position; "John was kicked upstairs when a replacement was hired"; "Women tend not to advance in the major law firms"; "I got promoted after many years of hard work"
Synonym(s): promote, upgrade, advance, kick upstairs, raise, elevate Antonym(s): break, bump, demote, kick downstairs, relegate
- cause to puff up with a leaven; "unleavened bread"
Synonym(s): raise, leaven, prove
- bid (one's partner's suit) at a higher level
- bet more than the previous player
- cause to assemble or enlist in the military; "raise an army"; "recruit new soldiers"
Synonym(s): recruit, levy, raise
- put forward for consideration or discussion; "raise the question of promotions"; "bring up an unpleasant topic"
Synonym(s): raise, bring up
- pronounce (vowels) by bringing the tongue closer to the roof of the mouth; "raise your `o'"
- activate or stir up; "raise a mutiny"
- establish radio communications with; "They managed to raise Hanoi last night"
- multiply (a number) by itself a specified number of times: 8 is 2 raised to the power 3
- bring (a surface or a design) into relief and cause to project; "raised edges"
- invigorate or heighten; "lift my spirits"; "lift his ego"
Synonym(s): raise, lift
- put an end to; "lift a ban"; "raise a siege"
Synonym(s): lift, raise
- cause to become alive again; "raise from the dead"; "Slavery is already dead, and cannot be resurrected"; "Upraising ghosts"
Synonym(s): resurrect, raise, upraise
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: |
Raise \Raise\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Raised}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Raising}.] [OE. reisen, Icel. reisa, causative of r[c6]sa to
rise. See {Rise}, and cf. {Rear} to raise.]
1. To cause to rise; to bring from a lower to a higher place;
to lift upward; to elevate; to heave; as, to raise a stone
or weight. Hence, figuratively:
(a) To bring to a higher condition or situation; to
elevate in rank, dignity, and the like; to increase
the value or estimation of; to promote; to exalt; to
advance; to enhance; as, to raise from a low estate;
to raise to office; to raise the price, and the like.
This gentleman came to be raised to great
titles. --Clarendon.
The plate pieces of eight were raised three
pence in the piece. --Sir W.
Temple.
(b) To increase the strength, vigor, or vehemence of; to
excite; to intensify; to invigorate; to heighten; as,
to raise the pulse; to raise the voice; to raise the
spirits or the courage; to raise the heat of a
furnace.
(c) To elevate in degree according to some scale; as, to
raise the pitch of the voice; to raise the temperature
of a room.
2. To cause to rise up, or assume an erect position or
posture; to set up; to make upright; as, to raise a mast
or flagstaff. Hence:
(a) To cause to spring up from recumbent position, from a
state of quiet, or the like; to awaken; to arouse.
They shall not awake, nor be raised out of their
sleep. --Job xiv. 12.
(b) To rouse to action; to stir up; to incite to tumult,
struggle, or war; to excite.
He commandeth, and raiseth the stormy wind.
--Ps. cvii.
25.
[92]neas . . . employs his pains, In parts
remote, to raise the Tuscan swains. --Dryden.
(c) To bring up from the lower world; to call up, as a
spirit from the world of spirits; to recall from
death; to give life to.
Why should it be thought a thing incredible with
you, that God should raise the dead ? --Acts
xxvi. 8.
3. To cause to arise, grow up, or come into being or to
appear; to give to; to originate, produce, cause, effect,
or the like. Hence, specifically:
(a) To form by the accumulation of materials or
constituent parts; to build up; to erect; as, to raise
a lofty structure, a wall, a heap of stones.
I will raise forts against thee. --Isa. xxxix.
3.
(b) To bring together; to collect; to levy; to get
together or obtain for use or service; as, to raise
money, troops, and the like. [bd]To raise up a
rent.[b8] --Chaucer.
(c) To cause to grow; to procure to be produced, bred, or
propagated; to grow; as, to raise corn, barley, hops,
etc.; toraise cattle. [bd]He raised sheep.[b8] [bd]He
raised wheat where none grew before.[b8] --Johnson's
Dict.
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From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: |
RAISE
See {RSL}.
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