Word Finder - raising

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(physical) To cause to rise; to lift or elevate.

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to raise your hand if you want to say something; to raise your walking stick to defend yourself

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To create, increase or develop.

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We need to raise the motivation level in the company.

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To establish contact with (e.g., by telephone or radio).

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Despite all the call congestion, she was eventually able to raise the police.

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To respond to a bet by increasing the amount required to continue in the hand.

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John bet, and Julie raised, requiring John to put in more money.

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To exponentiate, to involute.

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Two raised to the fifth power equals 32.

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(of a verb) To extract (a subject or other verb argument) out of an inner clause.

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(of a vowel) To produce a vowel with the tongue positioned closer to the roof of the mouth.

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To increase the nominal value of (a cheque, money order, etc.) by fraudulently changing the writing or printing in which the sum payable is specified.

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To throw (an exception).

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A division by zero will raise an exception.

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Elevation.

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Nurturing; cultivation; providing sustenance and protection for a living thing from conception to maturity

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Recruitment.

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Collection or gathering, especially of money.

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The operation or work of setting up the frame of a building.

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to help at a raising

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The movement of an argument from an embedded or subordinate clause to a matrix or main clause.

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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.

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The operation of embossing sheet metal, or of forming it into cup-shaped or hollow articles, by hammering, stamping, or spinning.

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The substance used to make bread rise.

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The process of deepening colours in dyeing.

Talon responded by raising her arm to his mouth.

You certainly did a fine job raising her.

Please, she whispered, raising her head to see him.

A cold chill crept up her spine, raising the hair on the back of her neck.

The Ouray Rescue Squad held an annual fund raising breakfast each Fourth of July, enabling the Deans to share an early meal of eggs, sausage, and fixings in the company of friends and neighbors.

He moved against her, and she responded, parting her knees and raising her hips in an ancient sign of invitation.

It takes time we don't have, it won't fool the Indians, and you're raising dust they might see.

I just hope you're not raising my rent.

With the object of raising the spirits of the troops and of the people, reviews were constantly held and rewards distributed.

He was a married minister, preaching the good book on Sunday and raising a family all week.

Even if Lilith wasn't meant to be his mate, she didn't deserve such a brutal death.  She didn't deserve death at all.  Instead of mourning a son, Kris could've spent the past few thousand years raising a successor.

The court at which he grew up was the focus of great activities, for Philip, by war and diplomacy, was raising Youth.

To the chamber of deputies exclusively belongs the initiation of all laws relating to the raising of money and the conscription of troops.

While raising the taxes both on agricultural products and manufactured goods, this law introduced, between France and all the powers trading with her, relations different from those in the past.

The policy of protection was further accentuated by raising the impost on corn from 5 to 7 francs per hectolitre (23/4 bushels).

The raising of cattle, pigs and sheep is a fairly important branch of industry throughout the duchy; horses are bred in Kamburg.

It was constructed with difficulty by embanking the river and raising the level of the formerly marshy ground, and was opened in 1858.

As the king had no longer a field army, the war after Naseby resolved itself into a series of sieges which Charles had no means of raising.

Louis, who was sick with fever, withdrew to his ancestral home, Dillenburg, to recruit his health, and then once more to devote his energies to the raising of money and troops for another invasion of the Netherlands.

Also, the work done in raising i lb through 2 ft.

Hence the work done in raising the mass will be represented by mg v 2 /2g, that is, Zmv 2 ergs.

The grappling of the cable and raising it to the surface from a depth of 2000 fathoms seldom occupy less than twenty-four hours, and since any extra strain due to the pitching of the vessel must be avoided, it is clear that the state of the sea and weather is the predominating factor in the time necessary for effecting the long series of operations which, in the most favourable circumstances, are required for a repair.

Screw adjustments are provided for closing or opening the air gap between the electromagnets and armatures, for raising or lowering the siphon, and for adjusting the point of the siphon to the centre or side of the paper strip. The received signals are recorded on the paper strip in an undulating continuous line of ink, and are distinguished by the length of deviation from zero.

When a key is depressed, slightly raising one of the pins, the horizontal arm will pass over it and in doing so will momentarily join the battery to the line.

A secondary industry is the raising of goats, which are able to stand neglect and a scanty food supply.

The public worship endowment fund has relieved the state exchequer of the cost of public worship; has gradually furnished to the poorer parish priests an addition to their stipends, raising them to 32 per annum, with the prospect of further raising them to 40; and has contributed to the outlay incurred by the communes for religious purposes.

Thus, that of 1907-1908 was devoted mainly to raising the salaries of government officials and university professors; even then the maximum for both (in the former class, for an under-secretary of state) was only 500 per annum.

In the long and important debate upon foreign policy in the Italian Chamber of Deputies (6th to 9th December) the fear was repeatedly expressed lest Bismarck should seek to purchase the support of German Catholics by raising the Roman question.

The policy of fiscal transformation inaugurated by the Left increased revenue from indirect taxation from 17,000,000 in 1876 to more than 24,000,000 in 1887, by substituting heavy corn duties for the grist tax, and by raising the sugar and petroleum duties to unprecedented levels.

Simultaneously Danby guided through parliament a bill for raising money for a war against France; a league was concluded with Holland, and troops were actually sent there.

More indirect methods, such as the grafting of less resistant scions on more vigorous stocks, of raising special late or early varieties by crossing or selection, and so on, have also met with success; but it must be understood that resistant in such cases usually means that some peculiarity of quick growth, early ripening or other life-feature in the plant is for the time being taken advantage of.

The slope of the river bed diminishes until the plain compels the river to move slowly, swinging in meanders proportioned to its size, and gradually, controlled by the flattening land, ceasing to transport material, but raising its banks and silting up its bed by the dropped sediment, until, split up and shoaled, its distributaries struggle across its delta to the sea.

Three or four piers or sometimes bridges of masonry are run out into the bed of the river, frequently from both sides at once, raising the level of the stream and thus giving a water power sufficient to turn the gigantic wheel or wheels, sometimes almost 40 ft.

The ordinary revenue of the empire is in excess of the ordinary expenditure, but the extraordinary expenditure not only swallows up this surplus, but necessitates the raising of fresh F loans every year.

They pointed out that while during the first five years the act was in force there were 315 applications for orders, during the second five years there were only 142 applications, and that proposals for new lines had become less numerous owing to the various difficulties in carrying them to a successful completion and to the difficulty of raising the necessary capital even when part of it was provided with the aid of the state and of the local authorities.

By the rain wash and wind action detritus from the mountains is carried to these valley floors, raising their level, and often burying low mountain spurs, so as to cause neighbouring valleys to coalesce.

The looked-for intervention of Egypt was unavailing, although a temporary raising of the siege inspired wild hopes.

To pay his debt to Rome he was compelled to resort to extraordinary methods of raising money; he actually met his death (187 B.C.) in an attempt to loot the temple of Elymais.

Thus it is used of the purchase used in raising the flukes of an anchor to the bill-board; of a piece of wood or metal used to strengthen a sprung mast or yard; and of a plate of metal used, as in railway construction, for the strengthening of the meeting-place of two rails.

In the meantime the crops of cereals increased little, and stock raising generally decreased.

These far extensions furnish the basis for a vast amount of exploratory survey of a strictly geographical character, and they have contributed largely towards raising the standard of accuracy in Asiatic geographical surveys to a level which was deemed unattainable fifty years ago.

It is in a region especially devoted to the growing of cotton and grain and to poultry raising, and an annual county fair is held here.

This is effected by raising up a small mound of rich compost around it, a contrivance which induces the graft to emit roots into the surface soil.

They are represented as endeavouring to prevent the progress of St Patrick and St Columba by raising clouds and mist.

The initial diameter of the well drilled from the bottom of this pit is in some instances as much as 36 in., bore-holes of the larger size being preferred, as they are less liable to become choked, and admit of the use of larger bailers for raising the oil.

Within recent years, owing to the initiative of Colonel English, a method of raising oil by the agency of compressed air has been introduced into the Baku oil-fields.

Surface currents are set up by prevailing winds, which also seriously affect water levels, lowering the water at Chicago and raising it at the strait, or the reverse, so as greatly to inconvenience navigation.

The principal industry is the raising of stock for the Chilean markets, as there is little cultivation.

Hadrian displayed his special fondness for the city by raising new buildings and relieving financial distress.

Buckman succeeded in raising "the potato-oat type" and "the white Tatarian oat" from grain of this species.