Meaning of rise in English | Powered by Free Dictionary API

verb

• To move, or appear to move, physically upwards relative to the ground.

• To increase in value or standing.

• To begin; to develop.

• To go up; to ascend; to climb.

  Example: to rise a hill

• To cause to go up or ascend.

  Example: to rise a fish, or cause it to come to the surface of the water

• To retire; to give up a siege.

• To come; to offer itself.

• To be lifted, or capable of being lifted, from the imposing stone without dropping any of the type; said of a form.

noun

• The process of or an action or instance of moving upwards or becoming greater.

  Example: Exercise is usually accompanied by a temporary rise in blood pressure.

• The process of or an action or instance of coming to prominence.

  Example: The rise of the feminists.

• An increase (in a quantity, price, etc).

• The amount of material extending from waist to crotch in a pair of trousers or shorts.

  Example: The rise of his pants was so low that his tailbone was exposed.

• An increase in someone's pay rate; a raise (US).

  Example: The governor just gave me a rise of two pound six.

• A small hill; used chiefly in place names.

• An area of terrain that tends upward away from the viewer, such that it conceals the region behind it; a slope.

• An angry reaction.

  Example: I knew that would get a rise out of him.

noun

• (now chiefly) A twig or stick.

• A bobbin or spool.