'ROSE' definitions:

Definition of 'rose'

From: WordNet
adjective
Of something having a dusty purplish pink color; "the roseate glow of dawn" [syn: rose, roseate, rosaceous]
noun
Any of many shrubs of the genus Rosa that bear roses [syn: rose, rosebush]
noun
Pinkish table wine from red grapes whose skins were removed after fermentation began [syn: blush wine, pink wine, rose, rose wine]
noun
A dusty pink color [syn: rose, rosiness]

Definition of 'Rose'

From: GCIDE
  • Rise \Rise\ (r[imac]z), v. i. [imp. Rose (r[=o]z); p. p. Risen; p. pr. & vb. n. Rising.] [AS. r[imac]san; akin to OS. r[imac]san, D. rijzen, OHG. r[imac]san to rise, fall, Icel. r[imac]sa, Goth. urreisan, G. reise journey. CF. Arise, Raise, Rear, v.]
  • 1. To move from a lower position to a higher; to ascend; to mount up. Specifically: (a) To go upward by walking, climbing, flying, or any other voluntary motion; as, a bird rises in the air; a fish rises to the bait. [1913 Webster] (b) To ascend or float in a fluid, as gases or vapors in air, cork in water, and the like. [1913 Webster] (c) To move upward under the influence of a projecting force; as, a bullet rises in the air. [1913 Webster] (d) To grow upward; to attain a certain height; as, this elm rises to the height of seventy feet. [1913 Webster] (e) To reach a higher level by increase of quantity or bulk; to swell; as, a river rises in its bed; the mercury rises in the thermometer. [1913 Webster] (f) To become erect; to assume an upright position; as, to rise from a chair or from a fall. [1913 Webster] (g) To leave one's bed; to arise; as, to rise early. [1913 Webster]
  • He that would thrive, must rise by five. --Old Proverb. [1913 Webster] (h) To tower up; to be heaved up; as, the Alps rise far above the sea. [1913 Webster] (i) To slope upward; as, a path, a line, or surface rises in this direction. "A rising ground." --Dryden. [1913 Webster] (j) To retire; to give up a siege. [1913 Webster]
  • He, rising with small honor from Gunza, . . . was gone. --Knolles. [1913 Webster] (k) To swell or puff up in the process of fermentation; to become light, as dough, and the like. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. To have the aspect or the effect of rising. Specifically:
  • [1913 Webster] (a) To appear above the horizont, as the sun, moon, stars, and the like. "He maketh his sun to rise on the evil and the good." --Matt. v. 45. [1913 Webster] (b) To become apparent; to emerge into sight; to come forth; to appear; as, an eruption rises on the skin; the land rises to view to one sailing toward the shore. [1913 Webster] (c) To become perceptible to other senses than sight; as, a noise rose on the air; odor rises from the flower. [1913 Webster] (d) To have a beginning; to proceed; to originate; as, rivers rise in lakes or springs. [1913 Webster]
  • A scepter shall rise out of Israel. --Num. xxiv. 17. [1913 Webster]
  • Honor and shame from no condition rise. --Pope. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. To increase in size, force, or value; to proceed toward a climax. Specifically: [1913 Webster] (a) To increase in power or fury; -- said of wind or a storm, and hence, of passion. "High winde . . . began to rise, high passions -- anger, hate." --Milton. [1913 Webster] (b) To become of higher value; to increase in price. [1913 Webster]
  • Bullion is risen to six shillings . . . the ounce. --Locke. [1913 Webster] (c) To become larger; to swell; -- said of a boil, tumor, and the like. [1913 Webster] (d) To increase in intensity; -- said of heat. [1913 Webster] (e) To become louder, or higher in pitch, as the voice. [1913 Webster] (f) To increase in amount; to enlarge; as, his expenses rose beyond his expectations. [1913 Webster]
  • 4. In various figurative senses. Specifically: [1913 Webster] (a) To become excited, opposed, or hostile; to go to war; to take up arms; to rebel. [1913 Webster]
  • At our heels all hell should rise With blackest insurrection. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
  • No more shall nation against nation rise. --Pope. [1913 Webster] (b) To attain to a better social position; to be promoted; to excel; to succeed. [1913 Webster]
  • Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall. --Shak. [1913 Webster] (c) To become more and more dignified or forcible; to increase in interest or power; -- said of style, thought, or discourse; as, to rise in force of expression; to rise in eloquence; a story rises in interest. [1913 Webster] (d) To come to mind; to be suggested; to occur. [1913 Webster]
  • A thought rose in me, which often perplexes men of contemplative natures. --Spectator. [1913 Webster] (e) To come; to offer itself. [1913 Webster]
  • There chanced to the prince's hand to rise An ancient book. --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
  • 5. To ascend from the grave; to come to life. [1913 Webster]
  • But now is Christ risen from the dead. --1. Cor. xv. 20. [1913 Webster]
  • 6. To terminate an official sitting; to adjourn; as, the committee rose after agreeing to the report. [1913 Webster]
  • It was near nine . . . before the House rose. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster]
  • 7. To ascend on a musical scale; to take a higher pith; as, to rise a tone or semitone. [1913 Webster]
  • 8. (Print.) To be lifted, or to admit of being lifted, from the imposing stone without dropping any of the type; -- said of a form. [1913 Webster]
  • Syn: To arise; mount; ascend; climb; scale.
  • Usage: Rise, Appreciate. Some in America use the word appreciate for "rise in value;" as, stocks appreciate, money appreciates, etc. This use is not unknown in England, but it is less common there. It is undesirable, because rise sufficiently expresses the idea, and appreciate has its own distinctive meaning, which ought not to be confused with one so entirely different. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Rose'

From: GCIDE
  • Rose \Rose\, imp. of Rise. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Rose'

From: GCIDE
  • Rose \Rose\, n. [AS. rose, L. rosa, probably akin to Gr. ?, Armor. vard, OPer. vareda; and perhaps to E. wort: cf. F. rose, from the Latin. Cf. Copperas, Rhododendron.]
  • 1. A flower and shrub of any species of the genus Rosa, of which there are many species, mostly found in the morthern hemispere [1913 Webster]
  • Note: Roses are shrubs with pinnate leaves and usually prickly stems. The flowers are large, and in the wild state have five petals of a color varying from deep pink to white, or sometimes yellow. By cultivation and hybridizing the number of petals is greatly increased and the natural perfume enhanced. In this way many distinct classes of roses have been formed, as the Banksia, Baurbon, Boursalt, China, Noisette, hybrid perpetual, etc., with multitudes of varieties in nearly every class. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. A knot of ribbon formed like a rose; a rose knot; a rosette, esp. one worn on a shoe. --Sha. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. (Arch.) A rose window. See Rose window, below. [1913 Webster]
  • 4. A perforated nozzle, as of a pipe, spout, etc., for delivering water in fine jets; a rosehead; also, a strainer at the foot of a pump. [1913 Webster]
  • 5. (Med.) The erysipelas. --Dunglison. [1913 Webster]
  • 6. The card of the mariner's compass; also, a circular card with radiating lines, used in other instruments. [1913 Webster]
  • 7. The color of a rose; rose-red; pink. [1913 Webster]
  • 8. A diamond. See Rose diamond, below. [1913 Webster]
  • Cabbage rose, China rose, etc. See under Cabbage, China, etc.
  • Corn rose (Bot.) See Corn poppy, under Corn.
  • Infantile rose (Med.), a variety of roseola.
  • Jamaica rose. (Bot.) See under Jamaica.
  • Rose acacia (Bot.), a low American leguminous shrub (Robinia hispida) with handsome clusters of rose-colored blossoms.
  • Rose aniline. (Chem.) Same as Rosaniline.
  • Rose apple (Bot.), the fruit of the tropical myrtaceous tree Eugenia Jambos. It is an edible berry an inch or more in diameter, and is said to have a very strong roselike perfume.
  • Rose beetle. (Zool.) (a) A small yellowish or buff longlegged beetle (Macrodactylus subspinosus), which eats the leaves of various plants, and is often very injurious to rosebushes, apple trees, grapevines, etc. Called also rose bug, and rose chafer. (b) The European chafer.
  • Rose bug. (Zool.) same as Rose beetle, Rose chafer.
  • Rose burner, a kind of gas-burner producing a rose-shaped flame.
  • Rose camphor (Chem.), a solid odorless substance which separates from rose oil.
  • Rose campion. (Bot.) See under Campion.
  • Rose catarrh (Med.), rose cold.
  • Rose chafer. (Zool.) (a) A common European beetle (Cetonia aurata) which is often very injurious to rosebushes; -- called also rose beetle, and rose fly. (b) The rose beetle (a) .
  • Rose cold (Med.), a variety of hay fever, sometimes attributed to the inhalation of the effluvia of roses. See Hay fever, under Hay.
  • Rose color, the color of a rose; pink; hence, a beautiful hue or appearance; fancied beauty, attractiveness, or promise.
  • Rose de Pompadour, Rose du Barry, names succesively given to a delicate rose color used on S[`e]vres porcelain.
  • Rose diamond, a diamond, one side of which is flat, and the other cut into twenty-four triangular facets in two ranges which form a convex face pointed at the top. Cf. Brilliant, n.
  • Rose ear. See under Ear.
  • Rose elder (Bot.), the Guelder-rose.
  • Rose engine, a machine, or an appendage to a turning lathe, by which a surface or wood, metal, etc., is engraved with a variety of curved lines. --Craig.
  • Rose family (Bot.) the Roseceae. See Rosaceous.
  • Rose fever (Med.), rose cold.
  • Rose fly (Zool.), a rose betle, or rose chafer.
  • Rose gall (Zool.), any gall found on rosebushes. See Bedeguar.
  • Rose knot, a ribbon, or other pliade band plaited so as to resemble a rose; a rosette.
  • Rose lake, Rose madder, a rich tint prepared from lac and madder precipitated on an earthy basis. --Fairholt.
  • Rose mallow. (Bot.) (a) A name of several malvaceous plants of the genus Hibiscus, with large rose-colored flowers. (b) the hollyhock.
  • Rose nail, a nail with a convex, faceted head.
  • Rose noble, an ancient English gold coin, stamped with the figure of a rose, first struck in the reign of Edward III., and current at 6s. 8d. --Sir W. Scott.
  • Rose of China. (Bot.) See China rose (b), under China.
  • Rose of Jericho (Bot.), a Syrian cruciferous plant (Anastatica Hierochuntica) which rolls up when dry, and expands again when moistened; -- called also {resurrection plant}.
  • Rose of Sharon (Bot.), an ornamental malvaceous shrub (Hibiscus Syriacus). In the Bible the name is used for some flower not yet identified, perhaps a Narcissus, or possibly the great lotus flower.
  • Rose oil (Chem.), the yellow essential oil extracted from various species of rose blossoms, and forming the chief part of attar of roses.
  • Rose pink, a pigment of a rose color, made by dyeing chalk or whiting with a decoction of Brazil wood and alum; also, the color of the pigment.
  • Rose quartz (Min.), a variety of quartz which is rose-red.
  • Rose rash. (Med.) Same as Roseola.
  • Rose slug (Zool.), the small green larva of a black sawfly (Selandria rosae). These larvae feed in groups on the parenchyma of the leaves of rosebushes, and are often abundant and very destructive.
  • Rose window (Arch.), a circular window filled with ornamental tracery. Called also Catherine wheel, and marigold window. Cf. wheel window, under Wheel.
  • Summer rose (Med.), a variety of roseola. See Roseola.
  • Under the rose [a translation of L. sub rosa], in secret; privately; in a manner that forbids disclosure; -- the rose being among the ancients the symbol of secrecy, and hung up at entertainments as a token that nothing there said was to be divulged.
  • Wars of the Roses (Eng. Hist.), feuds between the Houses of York and Lancaster, the white rose being the badge of the House of York, and the red rose of the House of Lancaster. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Rose'

From: GCIDE
  • Rose \Rose\, v. t.
  • 1. To render rose-colored; to redden; to flush. [Poetic] "A maid yet rosed over with the virgin crimson of modesty." --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. To perfume, as with roses. [Poetic] --Tennyson. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'ROSE'

From: Easton
  • Rose Many varieties of the rose proper are indigenous to Syria. The famed rose of Damascus is white, but there are also red and yellow roses. In Cant. 2:1 and Isa. 35:1 the Hebrew word _habatstseleth_ (found only in these passages), rendered "rose" (R.V. marg., "autumn crocus"), is supposed by some to mean the oleander, by others the sweet-scented narcissus (a native of Palestine), the tulip, or the daisy; but nothing definite can be affirmed regarding it.
  • The "rose of Sharon" is probably the cistus or rock-rose, several species of which abound in Palestine. "Mount Carmel especially abounds in the cistus, which in April covers some of the barer parts of the mountain with a glow not inferior to that of the Scottish heather." (See MYRRH [2].)

Synonyms of 'rose'

From: Moby Thesaurus

Acronyms for 'ROSE'

From: V.E.R.A.
  • [CAE] Real-time Object-based Simulation Environment
  • Remote Operations Service Element (OSI, RPC)

Words containing 'ROSE'