raising

/หˆษนeษชzษชล‹/

IPA: /R EY1 Z IH0 NG/

verb
  1. 1

    (physical) To cause to rise; to lift or elevate.

    โ€œto raise your hand if you want to say something; to raise your walking stick to defend yourselfโ€

  2. 2

    To create, increase or develop.

    โ€œWe need to raise the motivation level in the company.โ€

  3. 3

    To establish contact with (e.g., by telephone or radio).

    โ€œDespite all the call congestion, she was eventually able to raise the police.โ€

  4. 4

    To respond to a bet by increasing the amount required to continue in the hand.

    โ€œJohn bet, and Julie raised, requiring John to put in more money.โ€

  5. 5

    To exponentiate, to involute.

    โ€œTwo raised to the fifth power equals 32.โ€

  6. 6

    (of a verb) To extract (a subject or other verb argument) out of an inner clause.

  7. 7

    (of a vowel) To produce a vowel with the tongue positioned closer to the roof of the mouth.

  8. 8

    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.

  9. 9

    To throw (an exception).

    โ€œA division by zero will raise an exception.โ€

Synonyms

noun
  1. 1

    Elevation.

  2. 2

    Nurturing; cultivation; providing sustenance and protection for a living thing from conception to maturity

  3. 3

    Recruitment.

  4. 4

    Collection or gathering, especially of money.

  5. 5

    The operation or work of setting up the frame of a building.

    โ€œto help at a raisingโ€

  6. 6

    The movement of an argument from an embedded or subordinate clause to a matrix or main clause.

  7. 7

    A sound change in which a vowel or consonant becomes higher or raised, meaning that the tongue becomes more elevated or positioned closer to the roof of the mouth than before.

  8. 8

    The operation of embossing sheet metal, or of forming it into cup-shaped or hollow articles, by hammering, stamping, or spinning.

  9. 9

    The substance used to make bread rise.

  10. 10

    The process of deepening colours in dyeing.

Source: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/raise, https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/raising