Raising
['reɪzɪŋ] or ['rezɪŋ]
Definition
(noun.) the properties acquired as a consequence of the way you were treated as a child.
(adj.) increasing in quantity or value; 'a cost-raising increase in the basic wage rate' .
Typist: Vance--From WordNet
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Raise
(n.) The act of lifting, setting up, elevating, exalting, producing, or restoring to life.
(n.) Specifically, the operation or work of setting up the frame of a building; as, to help at a raising.
(n.) The operation of embossing sheet metal, or of forming it into cup-shaped or hollow articles, by hammering, stamping, or spinning.
Typed by Jared
Examples
- 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. Jane Austen. Emma.
- In agriculture the raising of grain has extended in the Nineteenth Century to enormous proportions. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Slowly raising her eyes to mine, she said: 'I suspect she has an attachment, Trot. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- I then knelt down beside the fearsome-looking thing, and raising it to its feet motioned for it to follow me. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- Thus as to steam it was first applied to the raising of water from mines and then to road vehicles. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Raising their rifles they fired into the underbrush in the direction from which the missiles had come. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- Such an arrangement is equivalent to wheel and axle (Fig. 112); the capstan used on shipboard for raising the anchor has the same principle. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Some landlords, instead of raising the rent, take a fine for the renewal of the lease. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Virginia squatters) added, we select the black members of a litter for raising, as they alone have a good chance of living. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- Grape juice mixed with millet ferments quickly and strongly, and the Romans learned to use this mixture for bread raising, kneading a very small amount of it through the dough. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- And your loving me,--why, it was almost like raising one from the dead! Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- He was writing and, without raising his head, coolly replied: Just as you please. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- I can send you up some from Blooms-End, said Clym, coming forward and raising his hat as the men retired. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- There had been great delay in obtaining the authority of Congress for the raising of the troops asked for by the administration. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- In raising the price of commodities, the rise of wages operates in the same manner as simple interest does in the accumulation of debt. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
Edited by Colin