rise

IPA: rˈaɪz

noun

  • The process of or an action or instance of moving upwards or becoming greater.
  • The process of or an action or instance of coming to prominence.
  • (chiefly UK, also Australia, Canada, New Zealand, South Africa) An increase in a quantity, price, etc.
  • The amount of material extending from waist to crotch in a pair of trousers or shorts.
  • (Sussex) A small hill; used chiefly in place names.
  • An area of terrain that tends upward away from the viewer, such that it conceals the region behind it; a slope.
  • (informal) A very noticeable visible or audible reaction of a person or group.
  • (architecture) The height of an arch or a step.
  • A surname.
  • (UK, Ireland, Australia, rest of Commonwealth, sometimes Canada) Ellipsis of pay rise: an increase in wage or salary. [(UK, Ireland, Australia, rest of Commonwealth, sometimes Canada) An increase in salary or wages.]
  • Alternative form of rice (“twig”) [(uncountable) Cereal plants, Oryza sativa of the grass family whose seeds are used as food.]

verb

  • (intransitive) To move, or appear to move, physically upwards relative to the ground.
  • To move upwards.
  • To grow upward; to attain a certain height.
  • To slope upward.
  • (of a celestial body) To appear to move upwards from behind the horizon of a planet as a result of the planet's rotation.
  • To become erect; to assume an upright position.
  • To leave one's bed; to get up.
  • (figurative) To be resurrected.
  • (figurative) To terminate an official sitting; to adjourn.
  • (intransitive) To increase in value or standing.
  • To attain a higher status.
  • Of a quantity, price, etc., to increase.
  • To become more and more dignified or forcible; to increase in interest or power; said of style, thought, or discourse.
  • To ascend on a musical scale; to take a higher pitch.
  • To begin, to develop; to be initiated.
  • To become active, effective or operational, especially in response to an external or internal stimulus.
  • To develop, to come about or intensify.
  • To swell or puff up in the process of fermentation; to become light.
  • (of a river) To have its source (in a particular place).
  • To become perceptible to the senses, other than sight.
  • To become agitated, opposed, or hostile; to go to war; to take up arms; to rebel.
  • To come to mind; to be suggested; to occur.
  • (transitive) To go up; to ascend; to climb.
  • (transitive) To cause to go up or ascend.
  • (obsolete) To retire; to give up a siege.
  • To come; to offer itself.
  • (printing, dated) To be lifted, or capable of being lifted, from the imposing stone without dropping any of the type; said of a form.
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Examples of "rise" in Sentences

  • The steam rises up from the grill.
  • A rise in the workweek often foreshadows an increase in hiring.
  • As the tide rises, the breathing space under the grate grows smaller.
  • Rise in blood pressure Increased excitability in some spinal reflexes.
  • The apical meristems start growing and give rise to the root and shoot.
  • If the increase in demand outpaces increase in supply, price will still rise.
  • As the tension rises, the physicality of the two players increases accordingly.

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