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raise

verb
/ɹeɪz/

Etymology

From 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.

  1. derived from *h₃er-✻
  2. derived from *h₁rey-✻
  3. derived from *rīsaną✻
  4. derived from *raisijaną✻
  5. derived from reisa
  6. inherited from reysen

Definitions

  1. To cause to rise

    To 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

  2. To 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

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

    • Despite all the call congestion, she was eventually able to raise the police.
  4. ›+ 14 more definitions

    1. To 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.

    2. To exponentiate, to involute.

      • Two raised to the fifth power equals 32.

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

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

    5. To increase the nominal value of (a cheque, money order, etc.) by fraudulently changing…

      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.

    6. To 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.

    7. To open, initiate.

      • I will raise a trouble-ticket in order to correct this reporting issue.

    8. Misspelling of raze.

    9. Ellipsis of pay raise (“an increase in wages or salary”).

      • The boss gave me a raise.

    10. A shot in which the delivered stone bumps another stone forward.

    11. A bet that increases the previous bet.

    12. A shaft or a winze that is dug from below, for purposes such as ventilation, local…

      A shaft or a winze that is dug from below, for purposes such as ventilation, local extraction of ore, or exploration.

    13. A shoulder exercise in which the arms are elevated against resistance.

    14. A cairn or pile of stones.

The neighborhood

  • synonymliftto cause to rise

Derived

araise, check-raise, curtain-raise, fundraise, hand-raise, I'll see you and raise you, it takes a village to raise a child, misraise, outraise, payraise, raisable, raise a finger, raise a flag, raise a hand, raise an eyebrow, raise a stink, raise borer, raise Cain, raised by wolves, raised in a barn, raise eyebrows, raise fire, raise flags, raise from the dead, raise hell, raise hob, raise oneself up by one's bootstraps, raise oneself up by one's own bootstraps, raise one's eyebrows, raise one's game, raise one's glass, raise one's hand, raise one's head, raise one's voice, raiser, raise red flags, raise someone's consciousness, raise someone's hackles, raise someone's shackles, raise someone's shag · +28 more

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at raise. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at raise. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at raise

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA