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Raising
//ˈɹeɪzɪŋ// noun, verb
Definitions
Adjective
- 1 increasing in quantity or value wordnet
Noun
- 1 Elevation. countable, uncountable
- 2 helping someone grow up to be an accepted member of the community wordnet
- 3 Nurturing; cultivation; providing sustenance and protection for a living thing from conception to maturity. countable, uncountable
"cattle raising"
- 4 the properties acquired as a consequence of the way you were treated as a child wordnet
- 5 Recruitment. countable, uncountable
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- 6 the event of something being raised upward wordnet
- 7 Collection or gathering, especially of money. countable, uncountable
- 8 The operation or work of setting up the frame of a building. US, countable, uncountable
"to help at a raising"
- 9 The movement of an argument from an embedded or subordinate clause to a matrix or main clause. countable, uncountable
- 10 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. countable, uncountable
- 11 The operation of embossing sheet metal, or of forming it into cup-shaped or hollow articles, by hammering, stamping, or spinning. countable, uncountable
- 12 The substance used to make bread rise. countable, uncountable
- 13 The process of deepening colours in dyeing. countable, uncountable
- 14 The action of placing something at a higher level. countable, uncountable
"Contracts for the raising of 16 other bridges have been let."
Verb
- 1 present participle and gerund of raise form-of, gerund, participle, present
Etymology
Etymology 1
Inherited from Middle English reysynge; equivalent to raise + -ing.
Etymology 2
Inherited from Middle English reysynge; equivalent to raise + -ing.
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