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rising

verb
/ˈɹaɪzɪŋ/

Etymology

By surface analysis, rise + -ing.

Definitions

  1. present participle and gerund of rise

  2. Rebellion.

  3. The act of something that rises.

    • the risings and fallings of a thermometer
  4. ›+ 7 more definitions

    1. A dough and yeast mixture which is allowed to ferment.

      • salt rising
      • milk rising

    2. Going up, physically or in quantity, rate, etc.

    3. Planned or destined to advance to an academic grade in the near future, after having…

      Planned or destined to advance to an academic grade in the near future, after having completed the previous grade; soon-to-be.

      • Residential colleges at Princeton are “really central to your identity on campus,” especially as a freshman, Ms. Chaffers, who is a rising junior, said in an interview on Saturday.

    4. Having its wings raised (either addorsed or sometimes displayed), standing on the tips of…

      Having its wings raised (either addorsed or sometimes displayed), standing on the tips of its feet as if about to take flight, typically depicted in profile.

    5. More than

      More than; exceeding; upwards of.

      • Affairs in Canada, with a population that had grown to rising ten thousand, seemed to be going from worse to worse.

    6. A surname.

    7. An unincorporated community in Champaign County, Illinois, United States.

The neighborhood

Derived

dead rising, Easter Rising, gainrising, sunrising, rising diphthong, risingly, Rising Sun, rising tone, self-rising, unrising

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at rising. 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.

01rising02rise03relative04relation05tone06scale07ascending

A definitional loop anchored at rising. 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 rising

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