raising
IPA: rˈeɪzɪŋ
noun
- Elevation.
- Nurturing; cultivation; providing sustenance and protection for a living thing from conception to maturity
- Recruitment.
- Collection or gathering, especially of money.
- (US) The operation or work of setting up the frame of a building.
- (linguistics) The movement of an argument from an embedded or subordinate clause to a matrix or main clause.
- (linguistics, phonetics) A sound change in which a vowel or consonant becomes higher or raised, meaning that the tongue becomes more elevated or positioned closer to the roof of the mouth than before.
- The operation of embossing sheet metal, or of forming it into cup-shaped or hollow articles, by hammering, stamping, or spinning.
- The substance used to make bread rise.
- The process of deepening colours in dyeing.
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Examples of "raising" in Sentences
- The organization is raising the children.