Rise

[raɪz]

Definition

(noun.) the act of changing location in an upward direction.

(noun.) an increase in cost; 'they asked for a 10% rise in rates'.

(noun.) a growth in strength or number or importance.

(noun.) a movement upward; 'they cheered the rise of the hot-air balloon'.

(verb.) increase in value or to a higher point; 'prices climbed steeply'; 'the value of our house rose sharply last year'.

(verb.) rise in rank or status; 'Her new novel jumped high on the bestseller list'.

(verb.) exert oneself to meet a challenge; 'rise to a challenge'; 'rise to the occasion'.

(verb.) become heartened or elated; 'Her spirits rose when she heard the good news'.

(verb.) move upward; 'The fog lifted'; 'The smoke arose from the forest fire'; 'The mist uprose from the meadows'.

(verb.) come up, of celestial bodies; 'The sun also rises'; 'The sun uprising sees the dusk night fled...'; 'Jupiter ascends'.

(verb.) increase in volume; 'the dough rose slowly in the warm room'.

(verb.) rise up; 'The building rose before them'.

Editor: Stacy--From WordNet

Definition

(v.) To move from a lower position to a higher; to ascend; to mount up. Specifically: -- (a) To go upward by walking, climbing, flying, or any other voluntary motion; as, a bird rises in the air; a fish rises to the bait.

(v.) To ascend or float in a fluid, as gases or vapors in air, cork in water, and the like.

(v.) To move upward under the influence of a projecting force; as, a bullet rises in the air.

(v.) To grow upward; to attain a certain height; as, this elm rises to the height of seventy feet.

(v.) To reach a higher level by increase of quantity or bulk; to swell; as, a river rises in its bed; the mercury rises in the thermometer.

(v.) To become erect; to assume an upright position; as, to rise from a chair or from a fall.

(v.) To leave one's bed; to arise; as, to rise early.

(v.) To tower up; to be heaved up; as, the Alps rise far above the sea.

(v.) To slope upward; as, a path, a line, or surface rises in this direction.

(v.) To retire; to give up a siege.

(v.) To swell or puff up in the process of fermentation; to become light, as dough, and the like.

(v.) To have the aspect or the effect of rising.

(v.) To appear above the horizont, as the sun, moon, stars, and the like.

(v.) To become apparent; to emerge into sight; to come forth; to appear; as, an eruption rises on the skin; the land rises to view to one sailing toward the shore.

(v.) To become perceptible to other senses than sight; as, a noise rose on the air; odor rises from the flower.

(v.) To have a beginning; to proceed; to originate; as, rivers rise in lakes or springs.

(v.) To increase in size, force, or value; to proceed toward a climax.

(v.) To increase in power or fury; -- said of wind or a storm, and hence, of passion.

(v.) To become of higher value; to increase in price.

(v.) To become larger; to swell; -- said of a boil, tumor, and the like.

(v.) To increase in intensity; -- said of heat.

(v.) To become louder, or higher in pitch, as the voice.

(v.) To increase in amount; to enlarge; as, his expenses rose beyond his expectations.

(v.) In various figurative senses.

(v.) To become excited, opposed, or hostile; to go to war; to take up arms; to rebel.

(v.) To attain to a better social position; to be promoted; to excel; to succeed.

(v.) To become more and more dignified or forcible; to increase in interest or power; -- said of style, thought, or discourse; as, to rise in force of expression; to rise in eloquence; a story rises in interest.

(v.) To come to mind; to be suggested; to occur.

(v.) To come; to offer itself.

(v.) To ascend from the grave; to come to life.

(v.) To terminate an official sitting; to adjourn; as, the committee rose after agreeing to the report.

(v.) To ascend on a musical scale; to take a higher pith; as, to rise a tone or semitone.

(v.) To be lifted, or to admit of being lifted, from the imposing stone without dropping any of the type; -- said of a form.

(n.) The act of rising, or the state of being risen.

(n.) The distance through which anything rises; as, the rise of the thermometer was ten degrees; the rise of the river was six feet; the rise of an arch or of a step.

(n.) Land which is somewhat higher than the rest; as, the house stood on a rise of land.

(n.) Spring; source; origin; as, the rise of a stream.

(n.) Appearance above the horizon; as, the rise of the sun or of a planet.

(n.) Increase; advance; augmentation, as of price, value, rank, property, fame, and the like.

(n.) Increase of sound; a swelling of the voice.

(n.) Elevation or ascent of the voice; upward change of key; as, a rise of a tone or semitone.

(n.) The spring of a fish to seize food (as a fly) near the surface of the water.

Edited by Brent

Synonyms and Synonymous

v. n. [1]. Ascend, mount, arise, go or move upwards.[2]. Appear, come forth, come into view.[3]. Get up.[4]. Revive, come to life, be raised from death.[5]. Grow, spring up.[6]. Be advanced, be promoted, gain a position.[7]. Increase, swell, enlarge, become greater, be enhanced.[8]. Adjourn, close the session.[9]. Spring, take rise, have source or origin.[10]. Become hostile, take up arms, go to war.

n. [1]. Ascent, rising.[2]. Elevation, elevated place.[3]. Source, origin, spring, beginning.[4]. Increase, advance, augmentation.

Edited by Barton

Synonyms and Antonyms

SYN:Ascend, mount, float, soar, grow, arise, tower, slope, appear, emerge, spring,originate, extend, expand, swell, increase, excel, prosper, climb

ANT:Descend, decline, sink, drop, diminish, fall, subside, crouch, nestle, dip,set, wane, vanish, disappear, terminate, end, debouch, contract, decrease,fail

Typist: Nigel

Definition

v.i. to move from a lower to a higher position: to stand up: to ascend: to grow upward: to swell in quantity or extent: to take an upright position: to leave the place of rest: to tower up: to appear above the horizon: to break forth: to appear: to have its source: to increase in size value &c.: to become excited or hostile: to break forth into commotion or insurrection: to increase in rank fortune or fame: to be promoted: to be perceptible to other senses: to excavate upward: to come to mind: to close a session: (B.) to ascend from the grave:—pa.t. rōse; pa.p. risen (riz′n).—n. act of rising: ascent: degree of elevation: a steep: origin: increase: (archit.) the upright piece of a step from tread to tread: (mining) a shaft excavated from below: (mus.) elevation of the voice.—n. Rī′ser a rebel: one who or that which rises.—Rise from the ranks to win a commission; Rise to the occasion to be equal to an emergency.—Take a rise out of to take the conceit out of a person by making him ridiculous.

n. a twig a small bush.—ns. Rise′bush a faggot; Rī′sel a support for a climbing vine; Rise′-wood small wood cut for hedging.

Editor: Simon