/ɹeɪz/
OriginFrom Middle English reysen, raisen, reisen, from Old Norse reisa (“to raise”), from Proto-Germanic *raisijaną, *raizijaną (“to raise”), causative form of Proto-Germanic *rīsaną (“to rise”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁rey- (“to rise, arise”). According to Kroonen (2013), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃er- (“to stir, rise”).
Cognate with Old English rāsian (“to explore, examine, research”), Old English rīsan (“to seize, carry off”), Old English rǣran (“to raise”). Doublet of rear.
- physicalTo cause to rise; to lift or elevate.
“to raise your hand if you want to say something; to raise your walking stick to defend yourself”
“the flag was raised”
“With the completion of the preliminary work of raising bridges on the Mauldeth Road-Wilmslow line, to accommodate overhead electrical equipment, further work has been put in hand on bridges on the Lon”
- physicalTo form by the accumulation of materials or constituent parts; to build up; to erect.
“to raise a wall, or a heap of stones”
“I will raise forts against thee.”
- physicalTo cause something to come to the surface of water.
“The ship was raised ten years after it had sunk.”
- physicalTo cause (the land or any other object) to seem higher by drawing nearer to it.
“to raise Sandy Hook light”
- physicalTo make (bread, etc.) light, as by yeast or leaven.
- figuratively, physicalTo cause (a dead person) to live again; to resurrect.
“The magic spell raised the dead from their graves!”
- physicalTo remove or break up (a blockade), either by withdrawing the ships or forces employed in enforcing it, or by driving them away or dispersing them.
- physical, transitiveTo relinquish (a siege), or cause this to be done.
- physical, transitiveTo emboss (sheet metal), or to form it into cup-shaped or hollow articles, by hammering, stamping, or spinning.
- transitiveTo create, increase or develop.
“We need to raise the motivation level in the company.”
“to raise the quality of the products; to raise the price of goods; to raise (increase) taxes”
“to raise somebody to office”
- transitiveTo collect or amass.
“to raise a lot of money for charity; to raise troops”
“But capital was proving difficult to raise; rumours were in the air that the G.W.R. and L.S.W.R. were about to patch up their quarrel, and the people of Southampton, who twelve months earlier had stag”
“Every pound raised goes to helping some of the world's most vulnerable children.”
- obsolete, transitiveTo call up the forces of, to raise the troops from.
“May it pleaſe your Grace that I ſhall raiſe the ſtreets,
To Gard your Maieſtie through Smithfield as you walke.”
- transitiveTo bring up; to grow.
“We visited a farm where they raise chickens.”
“Chew with your mouth shut — were you raised in a barn?”
“Ting Ling had disappeared from public life in 1958. She was accused of being a "Rightist" and was sent to a farm in Hei-lung-chiang Province in remote northeast China, worked there twelve years raisin”
- transitiveTo promote.
- transitiveTo mention (a question, issue) for discussion.
“A few important questions were raised after the attack.”
“President Donald Trump’s offer to most federal employees to resign now and be paid through September stunned the workers who received it – angering some, confusing many and raising questions about whe”
“All of which is to say, SignalGate raises plenty of security, privacy, and legal issues.”
- transitiveTo create; to constitute (a use, or a beneficial interest in property).
“There should be some consideration (i.e., payment or exchange) to raise a use.”
- transitiveTo bring into being; to produce; to cause to arise, come forth, or appear.
“Starting in January we will raise (introduce) taxes on all tobacco substitutes and vaping accessories.”
“I will raise them up a prophet from among their brethren, like unto thee.”
“God voutsafes to raise another World From him [Noah], and all his anger to forget.”
- To establish contact with (e.g., by telephone or radio).
“Despite all the call congestion, she was eventually able to raise the police.”
- intransitiveTo respond to a bet by increasing the amount required to continue in the hand.
“John bet, and Julie raised, requiring John to put in more money.”
- To exponentiate, to involute.
“Two raised to the fifth power equals 32.”
- transitiveTo extract (a subject or other verb argument) out of an inner clause.
- transitiveTo produce a vowel with the tongue positioned closer to the roof of the mouth.
- To increase the nominal value of (a cheque, money order, etc.) by fraudulently changing the writing or printing in which the sum payable is specified.
- transitiveTo instantiate and transmit (an exception, by throwing it, or an event).
“A division by zero will raise an exception.”
“Provide some mechanism in the local service class to raise the event. This might take the form of a public method that the host application can invoke to raise the event.”
- India, transitiveTo open, initiate.
“I will raise a trouble-ticket in order to correct this reporting issue.”
- alt-of, misspellingMisspelling of raze.
- US, abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsisEllipsis of pay raise (“an increase in wages or salary”).
“The boss gave me a raise.”
- A shot in which the delivered stone bumps another stone forward.
- A bet that increases the previous bet.
- A shaft or a winze that is dug from below, for purposes such as ventilation, local extraction of ore, or exploration.
“1944 United States. Bureau of Mines • War Minerals Report 386. Google books
It was necessary to spile through the vug, as it was filled with mud. A raise was driven 55 feet to the surface in this vug ”
- A shoulder exercise in which the arms are elevated against resistance.
- A cairn or pile of stones.
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