Raise

[reɪz] or [rez]

Definition

(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''.

Editor: Wendell--From WordNet

Definition

(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.

Typist: Susan

Synonyms and Synonymous

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.

Typist: Melba

Synonyms and Antonyms

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

Edited by Lizzie

Definition

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.

Checked by Claudia