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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
- One infers that all of this would be computerised information.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- They establish a colony on Ragol but this perfect planet soon unleashes a few surprises and all hell breaks loose.
- The snowy dome of Fujisan reddening in the sunrise rose above the violet woodlands of Mississippi Bay as we steamed out of Yokohama Harbour on the 19th, and three days later I saw the last of Japan — a rugged coast, lashed by a wintry sea. Unbeaten Tracks in Japan
- During the take-over battle the stock quotations of both enterprises rose so that an investor would have to wait several hundred years to finance the purchase price of the shares from the present level of profits.
- Schedule 3 comprises a number of toxic or precursor chemicals with widespread industrial uses, such as phosgene, hydrogen cyanide, phosphorus trichloride and thionyl chloride.
- Instead, the thin sandy developments defining the sequence boundaries suggest sandy sabkhas and sand sheets supplied by this undersaturated wind system and only preserved as a consequence of renewed lake-level rise.
