Raise
[reɪz] or [rez]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) increasing the size of a bet (as in poker); 'I'll see your raise and double it'.
(noun.) the amount a salary is increased; 'he got a 3% raise'; 'he got a wage hike'.
(verb.) raise the level or amount of something; 'raise my salary'; 'raise the price of bread'.
(verb.) invigorate or heighten; 'lift my spirits'; 'lift his ego'.
(verb.) multiply (a number) by itself a specified number of times: 8 is 2 raised to the power 3.
(verb.) activate or stir up; 'raise a mutiny'.
(verb.) cause to be heard or known; express or utter; 'raise a shout'; 'raise a protest'; 'raise a sad cry'.
(verb.) put forward for consideration or discussion; 'raise the question of promotions'; 'bring up an unpleasant topic'.
(verb.) bet more than the previous player.
(verb.) bid (one's partner's suit) at a higher level.
(verb.) 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'.
(verb.) construct, build, or erect; 'Raise a barn'.
(verb.) create a disturbance, especially by making a great noise; 'raise hell'; 'raise the roof'; 'raise Cain'.
(verb.) raise from a lower to a higher position; 'Raise your hands'; 'Lift a load'.
(verb.) cause to puff up with a leaven; 'unleavened bread'.
(verb.) collect funds for a specific purpose; 'The President raised several million dollars for his college'.
(verb.) bring (a surface or a design) into relief and cause to project; 'raised edges'.
(verb.) establish radio communications with; 'They managed to raise Hanoi last night'.
(verb.) pronounce (vowels) by bringing the tongue closer to the roof of the mouth; 'raise your `o''.
錄入:温德尔--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(v. t.) 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.
(v. t.) 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.
(v. t.) 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.
(v. t.) To elevate in degree according to some scale; as, to raise the pitch of the voice; to raise the temperature of a room.
(v. t.) 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.
(v. t.) To cause to spring up from a recumbent position, from a state of quiet, or the like; to awaken; to arouse.
(v. t.) To rouse to action; to stir up; to incite to tumult, struggle, or war; to excite.
(v. t.) 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.
(v. t.) To cause to arise, grow up, or come into being or to appear; to give rise to; to originate, produce, cause, effect, or the like.
(v. t.) 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.
(v. t.) To bring together; to collect; to levy; to get together or obtain for use or service; as, to raise money, troops, and the like.
(v. t.) To cause to grow; to procure to be produced, bred, or propagated; to grow; as, to raise corn, barley, hops, etc.; toraise cattle.
(v. t.) To bring into being; to produce; to cause to arise, come forth, or appear; -- often with up.
(v. t.) To give rise to; to set agoing; to occasion; to start; to originate; as, to raise a smile or a blush.
(v. t.) To give vent or utterance to; to utter; to strike up.
(v. t.) To bring to notice; to submit for consideration; as, to raise a point of order; to raise an objection.
(v. t.) To cause to rise, as by the effect of leaven; to make light and spongy, as bread.
(v. t.) To cause (the land or any other object) to seem higher by drawing nearer to it; as, to raise Sandy Hook light.
(v. t.) To let go; as in the command, Raise tacks and sheets, i. e., Let go tacks and sheets.
(v. t.) To create or constitute; as, to raise a use, that is, to create it.
手打:苏珊
同義詞及近義詞:
v. a. [1]. Lift, uplift, set up, raise up.[2]. Hoist, heave.[3]. Erect, rear, construct, build.[4]. Exalt, elevate, advance, promote.[5]. Enhance, increase, augment.[6]. Excite, rouse, arouse, awake, stir up, call up, call forth, put in action, put in motion.[7]. Collect, levy, obtain, get.[8]. Grow, cause to grow.[9]. Make light or spongy (as bread).[10]. Bring back to life, raise from the dead.[11]. [Southern States of the U. S.] Rear, bring up.
整理:梅尔巴
同義詞及反義詞:
SYN:Lift, heave, elevate, exalt, advance, promote, heighten, enhance, awaken,rouse, excite, call_forth, cultivate, rear, produce, collect, summon, erect,originate, propagate
ANT:Lay, cast, depress, degrade, retard, dishonor, lower, depreciate, lull,compose, quiet, calm, blight, destroy, disperse, disband, stifle, hush,silence, neutralize, confute
編輯:莉齐
解釋/意思:
v.t. to cause to rise: to lift up: to hoist: to set upright: to originate or produce: to bring together: to cause to grow or breed: to produce: to give rise to: to exalt: to increase the strength of: to excite: to collect: muster: (Scot.) to rouse inflame: to recall from death: to cause to swell as dough: to extol: to bring up: to remove take off as a blockade: to collect as to raise a company: to give rise to as to raise a laugh.—n. an ascent a cairn: (coll.) an enlargement increase.—adj. Rais′able capable of being raised.—ns. Rais′er one who or that which raises a building &c.: (archit.) the upright board on the front of a step in a flight of steps; Rais′ing the act of lifting: the embossing of sheet-metal by hammering or stamping: the process of deepening colours in dyeing: that with which bread is raised; Rais′ing-bee a gathering of neighbours to help in raising the frame of a house &c.; Rais′ing-board a ribbed board by which to raise the grain of leather; Rais′ing-gig a machine for raising a nap on cloth; Rais′ing-piece a piece of timber laid on a brick wall or on a frame to carry a beam or beams; Rais′ing-plate a horizontal timber supporting the heels of rafters.—Raise a siege to relinquish a siege or cause this to be done; Raise bread to make it light as by yeast or leaven; Raise Cain the devil hell the mischief &c. to create confusion or riot; Raised beach (geol.) a terrace of gravel &c. marking the margin of an ancient sea; Raised embroidery that in which the pattern is raised in relief from the ground; Raised work in lace-making work having the edge or some other part of the pattern raised in relief; Raise money on to get money by pawning something; Raise one's dander (see Dander); Raise the market upon (coll.) to charge more than the regular price; Raise the wind to obtain money by any shift.
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例句/造句/用法:
- In the hydraulic form of elevator, a motor worked by water is employed to lift the car, although steam power is also employed to raise the water. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- Provisions are thereby rendered dearer, in the same manner as if it required extraordinary labour and expense to raise them. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- Miss Ophelia hastened into the room, and tried to raise and silence her; but in vain. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- I decided that if I found a corresponding crowd there, the only thing to do to correct my lack of judgment in not getting more papers was to raise the price from five cents to ten. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- In that case the steady pull on the balance will be one half the weight of the roller; or a force of 6 pounds will suffice to raise the 12-pound roller. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- It's only a hundred-and-seventy, and the deuce is in it if we can't raise that. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- And who knows but you may raise a dance, said she. 簡·奧斯丁. 理智與情感.
- But he had shut it down again, if that were so; and it looked as if it had not been raised. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- And do they know that, by that statute, money is not to be raised on the subject but by consent of Parliament? 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- Holmes glanced at it, raised his eyebrows, and handed it over to me. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- Who raised her head upon his coming in and asking: 'Where did you go, Liz? 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- It was afterwards gradually raised by hydraulic presses to the top, a height of 100 feet. 弗雷德里克·科利爾·貝克維爾. 偉大的事實.
- She raised her eyes to my face, on being thus addressed, and her fingers plied their work, and she looked at me with an unmoved countenance. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- Whether from awe or pity, nobody raised the price on him. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- By only raising my voice, and saying any thing two or three times over, she is sure to hear; but then she is used to my voice. 簡·奧斯丁. 愛瑪.
- In agriculture the raising of grain has extended in the Nineteenth Century to enormous proportions. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- Slowly raising her eyes to mine, she said: 'I suspect she has an attachment, Trot. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- I then knelt down beside the fearsome-looking thing, and raising it to its feet motioned for it to follow me. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
- Thus as to steam it was first applied to the raising of water from mines and then to road vehicles. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- Raising their rifles they fired into the underbrush in the direction from which the missiles had come. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- Such an arrangement is equivalent to wheel and axle (Fig. 112); the capstan used on shipboard for raising the anchor has the same principle. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- It is the constructive, creative power which raises man above the level of the beast and enables him to devise and fashion wonderful inventions. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- The work done by a boy who raises a 5-pound knapsack to his shoulder would be 5x4, or 20, providing his shoulders were 4 feet from the ground. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- After loading the pawls are tripped, and the greater gravity of the counterweight raises the gun to firing position again. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- The word raises up an individual idea, along with a certain custom; and that custom produces any other individual one, for which we may have occasion. 大衛·休謨. 人性論.
- Here is also a chain elevator, which raises the wheels out of the freight cars to a runaway on which they travel by gravity to the third floor of the main factory. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- The increase of stock, which raises wages, tends to lower profit. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- Whoso raises his hand against you must answer to my sword. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星戰神.
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