noun
Meaning 1
Elevation.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
raising
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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/ˈɹeɪzɪŋ/
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rhymes with -eɪzɪŋ
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homophone: razing
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CMU ARPABET: R EY1 Z IH0 NG Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
Nurturing; cultivation; providing sustenance and protection for a living thing from conception to maturity.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Examples
- cattle raising
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
Recruitment.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Meaning 4
Collection or gathering, especially of money.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
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Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 5
The operation or work of setting up the frame of a building.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US, countable, uncountable
Examples
- to help at a raising
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 6
The movement of an argument from an embedded or subordinate clause to a matrix or main clause.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: human-sciences, linguistics, sciences
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noun
Meaning 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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: human-sciences, linguistics, phonetics, phonology, sciences
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: lowering
noun
Meaning 8
The operation of embossing sheet metal, or of forming it into cup-shaped or hollow articles, by hammering, stamping, or spinning.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 9
The substance used to make bread rise.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Meaning 10
The process of deepening colours in dyeing.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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Synonyms: none provided
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noun
Meaning 11
The action of placing something at a higher level.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 12
present participle and gerund of raise
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: form-of, gerund, participle, present
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
Meaning 13
increasing in quantity or value
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- a cost-raising increase in the basic wage rate
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 14
helping someone grow up to be an accepted member of the community
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- they debated whether nature or nurture was more important
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: breeding, bringing up, fostering, fosterage, nurture, rearing, upbringing
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: socialization, socialisation, acculturation, enculturation
noun
Meaning 15
the properties acquired as a consequence of the way you were treated as a child
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: rearing, nurture
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: upbringing
noun
Meaning 16
the event of something being raised upward
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- an elevation of the temperature in the afternoon
- a raising of the land resulting from volcanic activity
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: elevation, lift
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: rise, rising, ascent, ascension
History
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English reysynge; equivalent to raise + -ing.
Across languages
Translations
23 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Finnish: nosto — elevation
- Finnish: nousu — elevation
- Finnish: nostaminen — elevation
- German: Erhebung — elevation
- Middle English: reysynge — elevation
- Spanish: elevación — elevation
- Spanish: alzamiento — elevation
- Spanish: levantamiento — elevation
- Finnish: kasvatus — nurturing; cultivation
- Finnish: kasvattaminen — nurturing; cultivation
- German: Großziehen — nurturing; cultivation
- German: Aufziehen — nurturing; cultivation
- Spanish: crianza — nurturing; cultivation
- Spanish: concienciación — nurturing; cultivation
- Spanish: concientización — nurturing; cultivation
- Finnish: keräys — collection or gathering, especially of money
- Finnish: kerääminen — collection or gathering, especially of money
- German: Sammlung — collection or gathering, especially of money
- Spanish: recaudación — collection or gathering, especially of money
- Finnish: rungon pystyttäminen — setting up the frame of a building
- Middle English: reysynge — setting up the frame of a building
- French: montée — sound change
- Finnish: pakottaminen — embossing sheet metal
Real reading context