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UK
/ɹˈaɪz/
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[ US /ˈɹaɪz/ ]
[ US /ˈɹaɪz/ ]
VERB
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rise up
The building rose before them -
exert oneself to meet a challenge
rise to a challenge
rise to the occasion -
come into existence; take on form or shape
a love that sprang up from friendship
An interesting phenomenon uprose
A new religious movement originated in that country
the idea for the book grew out of a short story - come to the surface
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rise to one's feet
The audience got up and applauded -
return from the dead
Christ is risen!
The dead are to uprise -
rise in rank or status
Her new novel jumped high on the bestseller list - take part in a rebellion; renounce a former allegiance
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go up or advance
Sales were climbing after prices were lowered -
increase in volume
the dough rose slowly in the warm room -
come up, of celestial bodies
Jupiter ascends
The sun uprising sees the dusk night fled...
The sun also rises -
become heartened or elated
Her spirits rose when she heard the good news -
get up and out of bed
I get up at 7 A.M. every day
He uprose at night
They rose early -
increase in value or to a higher point
prices climbed steeply
the value of our house rose sharply last year -
become more extreme
The tension heightened -
move upward
The mist uprose from the meadows
The fog lifted
The smoke arose from the forest fire -
move to a better position in life or to a better job
She ascended from a life of poverty to one of great renown
NOUN
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(theology) the origination of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost
the rising of the Holy Ghost
the doctrine of the procession of the Holy Spirit from the Father and the Son
the emanation of the Holy Spirit - a growth in strength or number or importance
- the property possessed by a slope or surface that rises
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the amount a salary is increased
he got a 3% raise
he got a wage hike - the act of changing location in an upward direction
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increase in price or value
the news caused a general advance on the stock market -
an upward slope or grade (as in a road)
the car couldn't make it up the rise -
an increase in cost
they asked for a 10% rise in rates -
a movement upward
they cheered the rise of the hot-air balloon - a wave that lifts the surface of the water or ground
How To Use rise In A Sentence
- She jumped back with a little yelp of surprise.
- On land, giant reservoirs holding saline water could be built to offset the rise in sea levels caused by the melting of the polar ice-caps.
- The abrupt facies shift, bioturbation and cemented nature of the surfaces suggests that they represent marine flooding surfaces, formed during a rapid rise in relative sea level and/or a reduction in sediment supply.
- Second, at the same time, I'm somewhat surprised and mildly appalled that this story hasn't generated a lot of buzz in the blogosphere.
- One infers that all of this would be computerised information.
- Then the pleasant little surprises of all kinds that we imagined; and the pleasant looks that greet us when we condescend to accept them; the patience that can translate our most unwarrantable "crossness", because there has been some trifling difficulty in obtaining the half of a star or the corner of a moon which it had pleased us to require, into "such a good sign of being really better"; and then our appetite (which the gods know is at that season singularly keen), how is it not tempted with unutterable dainties and friande morsels, all sorts of amateur cookery in our behalf, where Love himself has not disdained to turn the spit, and look into the stewpan! and all served up so gracefully on the small tray, covered with its delicate white damask cloth, arraying with more than mortal charms the moulds of crystal jelly and pure-looking blanc mange! Zoe: The History of Two Lives
- They establish a colony on Ragol but this perfect planet soon unleashes a few surprises and all hell breaks loose.
- Many scientists think that hotspots mark locations where diapiric convection cells, called mantle ‘plumes’, rise beneath lithospheric plates.
- He gave geometrical solutions to doubling a cube and trisecting an angle in this book.
- As may be imagined, this capture, not so much a fluke as a surprise gave me cause to rethink my fishing plans on the lake.
