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rise

verb
/ɹaɪz/

Etymology

From Middle English risen, from Old English rīsan, from Proto-West Germanic *rīsan, from Proto-Germanic *rīsaną (“to rise”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁rey- (“to arise, rise”). According to Kroonen (2013), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃er- (“to rise, spring”). See also raise. Cognates Cognate with Dutch rijzen (“to rise”), German reisen (“to fall”), Limburgish rieze (“to rise”), Faroese and Icelandic rísa (“to rise”), Norwegian Nynorsk risa, rise (“to rise”), Gothic *𐍂𐌴𐌹𐍃𐌰𐌽 (*reisan, “to rise”) (whence 𐌿𐍂𐍂𐌴𐌹𐍃𐌰𐌽 (urreisan, “to arise”)). Non-Germanic cognates include Cornish ardh (“height”), Irish arad, ard, árd (“high, tall”), Manx ard (“high, tall”), Scottish Gaelic àrd (“high”), Welsh ardd (“hill, upland”), Latin orior (“to rise”), Ancient Greek ἔρις (éris, “quarell, strife; contention, rivalry”) (whence Greek έριδα (érida, “feud”)), Albanian rashë (“to have fallen; to have flopped”), Bulgarian ръст (rǎst, “size; stature; growth”), Czech růst (“growth”), Macedonian раст (rast, “growth, height”), Polish rost, wzrost (“growth”), Russian рост (rost, “growth”), Serbo-Croatian ра̑ст, rȃst (“growth”), Slovene rȃst (“growth”), Old Armenian յառնեմ (yaṙnem, “to arise, rise”) (whence Armenian հառնել (haṙnel, “to rise up”)), Persian رمبیدن (rombidan, “to collapse”), Tocharian A ar- (“to evoke”), Tocharian B er- (“to evoke”), Hittite 𒀀𒊏𒀀𒄑𒍣 (arāwanzi, “to rise”), Sanskrit ऋ (ṛ, “to rise”).

  1. derived from *h₃er-✻ — “to rise, spring”
  2. derived from *h₁rey-✻ — “to arise, rise”
  3. derived from *rīsaną✻ — “to rise”
  4. derived from *rīsan✻
  5. derived from rīsan
  6. derived from risen

Definitions

  1. To move, or appear to move, physically upwards relative to the ground.

    • We watched the balloon rise.
    • Disturbed by my footsteps, the birds rose above the treetops.

  2. To increase in value or standing.

    • Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.
    • among the rising theologians of Germany
    • Caesar Enrico “Rico” Bandello is a hoodlum who rises swiftly in Chicago’s mob world, in the 1931 film “Little Caesar.” Played by Edward G. Robinson, Rico is tracked down by police and shot.

  3. To begin, to develop

    To begin, to develop; to be initiated.

    • to rise to the occasion
    • Thus far, my intellect has been able to rise sufficiently to meet every academic challenge that I have encountered.
    • As Patrick continued to goad me, I felt my temper rising towards the limits of my self control.
  4. ›+ 17 more definitions

    1. To go up

      To go up; to ascend; to climb.

      • to rise a hill

    2. To cause to go up or ascend.

      • to rise a fish, or cause it to come to the surface of the water
      • to rise a ship, or bring it above the horizon by approaching it
      • Until we rose the bark we could not pretend to call it a chase.

    3. To retire

      To retire; to give up a siege.

      • He,[…] rising with small honour from Gunza,[…]was gone.

    4. To come

      To come; to offer itself.

      • There chaunced to the Princes hand to rize, / An auncient booke, […]

    5. To be lifted, or capable of being lifted, from the imposing stone without dropping any of…

      To be lifted, or capable of being lifted, from the imposing stone without dropping any of the type; said of a form.

      • One side of the form is now to be lifted from the stone just enough to allow the compositor to see whether it will rise or not but not so high as to let any loose letters drop out.

    6. The process of or an action or instance of moving upwards or becoming greater.

      • The rise of the tide.
      • There was a rise of nearly two degrees since yesterday.
      • Exercise is usually accompanied by a temporary rise in blood pressure.

    7. The process of or an action or instance of coming to prominence.

      • The rise of the working class.
      • The rise of the printing press.
      • The rise of the feminists.

    8. An increase in a quantity, price, etc.

    9. Ellipsis of pay rise (“an increase in wage or salary”).

      • The governor just gave me a rise of two pound six.

    10. The amount of material extending from waist to crotch in a pair of trousers or shorts.

      • The rise of his pants was so low that his tailbone was exposed.

    11. The front of a diaper.

    12. A small hill

      A small hill; used chiefly in place names.

    13. An area of terrain that tends upward away from the viewer, such that it conceals the…

      An area of terrain that tends upward away from the viewer, such that it conceals the region behind it; a slope.

      • the land rolls gently, so that, upon cresting a low rise or passing a copse of wind turbines, you suddenly spot a lot full of lorries or a complex of gigantic sheds.
      • I went along up the bank with one eye out for pap and t'other one out for what the rise might fetch along.

    14. A very noticeable visible or audible reaction of a person or group.

      • Making fun of their football team is one sure way to get a rise from a crowd.
      • She really got a rise from the audience when she donned a wig and talked like the president.

    15. The height of an arch or a step.

      • As the rise, i.e. height, of the arch decreases, the outward thrust increases.
      • Each step had a rise of 170 mm and a going of 250 mm.

    16. Alternative form of rice (“twig”).

    17. A surname.

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Derived

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Vish — recursive loop

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

7 hops · closes at rise

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

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