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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