'Raising' definitions:
Definition of 'raising'
From: WordNet
adjective
Increasing in quantity or value; "a cost-raising increase in the basic wage rate"
noun
The event of something being raised upward; "an elevation of the temperature in the afternoon"; "a raising of the land resulting from volcanic activity" [syn: elevation, lift, raising]
noun
The properties acquired as a consequence of the way you were treated as a child [syn: raising, rearing, nurture]
noun
Helping someone grow up to be an accepted member of the community; "they debated whether nature or nurture was more important" [syn: breeding, bringing up, fostering, fosterage, nurture, raising, rearing, upbringing]
Definition of 'Raising'
From: GCIDE
- Raising \Rais"ing\ (r[=a]z"[i^]ng), n.
- 1. The act of lifting, setting up, elevating, exalting, producing, or restoring to life. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Specifically, the operation or work of setting up the frame of a building; as, to help at a raising. [U.S.] [1913 Webster]
- 3. The operation of embossing sheet metal, or of forming it into cup-shaped or hollow articles, by hammering, stamping, or spinning. [1913 Webster]
- Raising bee, a bee for raising the frame of a building. See Bee, n., 2. [U.S.] --W. Irving.
- Raising hammer, a hammer with a rounded face, used in raising sheet metal.
- Raising plate (Carp.), the plate, or longitudinal timber, on which a roof is raised and rests. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Raising'
From: GCIDE
- Raise \Raise\ (r[=a]z), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Raised (r[=a]zd); p. pr. & vb. n. Raising.] [OE. reisen, Icel. reisa, causative of r[imac]sa to rise. See Rise, and cf. Rear to raise.] [1913 Webster]
- 1. To cause to rise; to bring from a lower to a higher place; to lift upward; to elevate; to heave; as, to raise a stone or weight. Hence, figuratively: [1913 Webster] (a) To bring to a higher condition or situation; to elevate in rank, dignity, and the like; to increase the value or estimation of; to promote; to exalt; to advance; to enhance; as, to raise from a low estate; to raise to office; to raise the price, and the like. [1913 Webster]
- This gentleman came to be raised to great titles. --Clarendon. [1913 Webster]
- The plate pieces of eight were raised three pence in the piece. --Sir W. Temple. [1913 Webster] (b) To increase the strength, vigor, or vehemence of; to excite; to intensify; to invigorate; to heighten; as, to raise the pulse; to raise the voice; to raise the spirits or the courage; to raise the heat of a furnace. [1913 Webster] (c) To elevate in degree according to some scale; as, to raise the pitch of the voice; to raise the temperature of a room. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To cause to rise up, or assume an erect position or posture; to set up; to make upright; as, to raise a mast or flagstaff. Hence: [1913 Webster] (a) To cause to spring up from a recumbent position, from a state of quiet, or the like; to awaken; to arouse. [1913 Webster]
- They shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep. --Job xiv. 12. [1913 Webster] (b) To rouse to action; to stir up; to incite to tumult, struggle, or war; to excite. [1913 Webster]
- He commandeth, and raiseth the stormy wind. --Ps. cvii. 25. [1913 Webster]
- Aeneas . . . employs his pains, In parts remote, to raise the Tuscan swains. --Dryden. [1913 Webster] (c) To bring up from the lower world; to call up, as a spirit from the world of spirits; to recall from death; to give life to. [1913 Webster]
- Why should it be thought a thing incredible with you, that God should raise the dead ? --Acts xxvi. 8. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To cause to arise, grow up, or come into being or to appear; to give rise to; to originate, produce, cause, effect, or the like. Hence, specifically: [1913 Webster] (a) To form by the accumulation of materials or constituent parts; to build up; to erect; as, to raise a lofty structure, a wall, a heap of stones. [1913 Webster]
- I will raise forts against thee. --Isa. xxix. 3. [1913 Webster] (b) To bring together; to collect; to levy; to get together or obtain for use or service; as, to raise money, troops, and the like. "To raise up a rent." --Chaucer. [1913 Webster] (c) To cause to grow; to procure to be produced, bred, or propagated; to grow; as, to raise corn, barley, hops, etc.; toraise cattle. "He raised sheep." "He raised wheat where none grew before." --Johnson's Dict. [1913 Webster]
- Note: In some parts of the United States, notably in the Southern States, raise is also commonly applied to the rearing or bringing up of children. [1913 Webster]
- I was raised, as they say in Virginia, among the mountains of the North. --Paulding. [1913 Webster] (d) To bring into being; to produce; to cause to arise, come forth, or appear; -- often with up. [1913 Webster]
- I will raise them up a prophet from among their brethren, like unto thee. --Deut. xviii. 18. [1913 Webster]
- God vouchsafes to raise another world From him [Noah], and all his anger to forget. --Milton. [1913 Webster] (e) To give rise to; to set agoing; to occasion; to start; to originate; as, to raise a smile or a blush. [1913 Webster]
- Thou shalt not raise a false report. --Ex. xxiii. 1. [1913 Webster] (f) To give vent or utterance to; to utter; to strike up. [1913 Webster]
- Soon as the prince appears, they raise a cry. --Dryden. [1913 Webster] (g) To bring to notice; to submit for consideration; as, to raise a point of order; to raise an objection. [1913 Webster]
- 4. To cause to rise, as by the effect of leaven; to make light and spongy, as bread. [1913 Webster]
- Miss Liddy can dance a jig, and raise paste. --Spectator. [1913 Webster]
- 5. (Naut.) (a) To cause (the land or any other object) to seem higher by drawing nearer to it; as, to raise Sandy Hook light. (b) To let go; as in the command, Raise tacks and sheets, i. e., Let go tacks and sheets. [1913 Webster]
- 6. (Law) To create or constitute; as, to raise a use, that is, to create it. --Burrill. [1913 Webster]
- To raise a blockade (Mil.), to 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.
- To raise a check, note, bill of exchange, etc., to increase fraudulently its nominal value by changing the writing, figures, or printing in which the sum payable is specified.
- To raise a siege, to relinquish an attempt to take a place by besieging it, or to cause the attempt to be relinquished.
- To raise steam, to produce steam of a required pressure.
- To raise the wind, to procure ready money by some temporary expedient. [Colloq.]
- To raise Cain, or To raise the devil, to cause a great disturbance; to make great trouble. [Slang] [1913 Webster]
- Syn: To lift; exalt; elevate; erect; originate; cause; produce; grow; heighten; aggravate; excite. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'raising'
From: GCIDE
- increasing \increasing\ adj.
- 1. becoming greater or larger; as, increasing prices. [Narrower terms: {accretionary ; {augmenting, augmentative, building ; {expanding ; {flared, flaring ; {growing ; {incorporative ; {lengthening ; {maximizing ; {multiplicative ; {profit-maximizing ; {raising ; {accretive ; {rising ] decreasing [WordNet 1.5]
- 2. same as growing, 1. [prenominal]
- Syn: growing(prenominal), incremental. [WordNet 1.5]
- 3. (Music) increasing in some musical quality. Opposite of decreasing. [Narrower terms: {accelerando ; {crescendo ] [WordNet 1.5]
Synonyms of 'raising'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- addition,
- adjunct,
- aggrandizement,
- ampliation,
- amplification,
- apotheosis,
- apprenticeship,
- architecture,
- ascent,
- assembly,
- assumption,
- augmentation,
- barmy,
- basic training,
- beatification,
- breaking,
- breeding,
- broadening,
- building,
- canonization,
- casting,
- composition,
- conditioning,
- construction,
- conversion,
- crafting,
- craftsmanship,
- creation,
- crescendo,
- cultivation,
- deification,
- deployment,
- development,
- devising,
- diastatic,
- discipline,
- dispersion,
- drill,
- drilling,
- elaboration,
- elevation,
- enlargement,
- enshrinement,
- enzymic,
- erecting,
- erection,
- escalation,
- exaltation,
- exercise,
- expansion,
- extension,
- extraction,
- fabrication,
- fanning out,
- fashioning,
- fermenting,
- fetching-up,
- flare,
- formation,
- forming,
- formulation,
- fostering,
- framing,
- green thumb,
- grooming,
- growing,
- handicraft,
- handiwork,
- harvesting,
- heaving up,
- height,
- hiking,
- housebreaking,
- improvement,
- in-service training,
- increase,
- leavening,
- lifting,
- lofting,
- machining,
- magnification,
- making,
- manual training,
- manufacture,
- manufacturing,
- military training,
- milling,
- mining,
- molding,
- nurture,
- nurturing,
- on-the-job training,
- practice,
- prefabrication,
- preparation,
- processing,
- producing,
- readying,
- rearing,
- refining,
- rehearsal,
- shaping,
- sloyd,
- smelting,
- splay,
- spread,
- spreading,
- standing on end,
- sursum corda,
- training,
- upbringing,
- upbuoying,
- upcast,
- upheaval,
- uplift,
- uplifting,
- upping,
- upraising,
- uprearing,
- upthrow,
- upthrust,
- vocational education,
- vocational training,
- widening,
- working,
- workmanship,
- yeasty
Words containing 'Raising'
- Raise,
- Raised,
- raise up,
- Raised beach,
- Raised bread,
- Raised table,
- Raising bee,
- Raising hammer,
- Raising plate,
- To raise Cain,
- To raise a blockade,
- To raise a check,
- To raise a siege,
- To raise dust,
- To raise steam,
- To raise the devil,
- To raise the horn,
- To raise the wind,
- curtain raising,
- fund raise,
- hell raising,
- raise a stink,
- raise hell,
- raise the roof,
- raised doughnut,
- raising hell,
- High-raised,
- brocaded embossed raised,
- fire-raising,
- fund-raise,
- hair-raising,
- house-raising,
- fund-raising campaign,
- fund-raising drive,
- fund-raising effort,
- self-raising flour