"rise" Definition

Definitions for the word "rise" from multiple English dictionaries.

1. v.
To move from a lower position to a higher; to ascend; to mount up. Specifically: -- (a) To go upward by walking, climbing, flying, or any other voluntary motion; as, a bird rises in the air; a fish rises to the bait.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
2. v.
To ascend or float in a fluid, as gases or vapors in air, cork in water, and the like.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
3. v.
To move upward under the influence of a projecting force; as, a bullet rises in the air.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
4. v.
To grow upward; to attain a certain height; as, this elm rises to the height of seventy feet.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
5. v.
To reach a higher level by increase of quantity or bulk; to swell; as, a river rises in its bed; the mercury rises in the thermometer.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
6. v.
To become erect; to assume an upright position; as, to rise from a chair or from a fall.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
7. v.
To leave one's bed; to arise; as, to rise early.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
8. v.
To tower up; to be heaved up; as, the Alps rise far above the sea.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
9. v.
To slope upward; as, a path, a line, or surface rises in this direction.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
10. v.
To retire; to give up a siege.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
11. v.
To swell or puff up in the process of fermentation; to become light, as dough, and the like.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
12. v.
To have the aspect or the effect of rising.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
13. v.
To appear above the horizont, as the sun, moon, stars, and the like.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
14. v.
To become apparent; to emerge into sight; to come forth; to appear; as, an eruption rises on the skin; the land rises to view to one sailing toward the shore.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
15. v.
To become perceptible to other senses than sight; as, a noise rose on the air; odor rises from the flower.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
16. v.
To have a beginning; to proceed; to originate; as, rivers rise in lakes or springs.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
17. v.
To increase in size, force, or value; to proceed toward a climax.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
18. v.
To increase in power or fury; -- said of wind or a storm, and hence, of passion.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
19. v.
To become of higher value; to increase in price.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
20. v.
To become larger; to swell; -- said of a boil, tumor, and the like.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
21. v.
To increase in intensity; -- said of heat.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
22. v.
To become louder, or higher in pitch, as the voice.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
23. v.
To increase in amount; to enlarge; as, his expenses rose beyond his expectations.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
24. v.
In various figurative senses.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
25. v.
To become excited, opposed, or hostile; to go to war; to take up arms; to rebel.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
26. v.
To attain to a better social position; to be promoted; to excel; to succeed.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
27. v.
To become more and more dignified or forcible; to increase in interest or power; -- said of style, thought, or discourse; as, to rise in force of expression; to rise in eloquence; a story rises in interest.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
28. v.
To come to mind; to be suggested; to occur.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
29. v.
To come; to offer itself.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
30. v.
To ascend from the grave; to come to life.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
31. v.
To terminate an official sitting; to adjourn; as, the committee rose after agreeing to the report.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
32. v.
To ascend on a musical scale; to take a higher pith; as, to rise a tone or semitone.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
33. v.
To be lifted, or to admit of being lifted, from the imposing stone without dropping any of the type; -- said of a form.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
34. n.
The act of rising, or the state of being risen.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
35. n.
The distance through which anything rises; as, the rise of the thermometer was ten degrees; the rise of the river was six feet; the rise of an arch or of a step.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
36. n.
Land which is somewhat higher than the rest; as, the house stood on a rise of land.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
37. n.
Spring; source; origin; as, the rise of a stream.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
38. n.
Appearance above the horizon; as, the rise of the sun or of a planet.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
39. n.
Increase; advance; augmentation, as of price, value, rank, property, fame, and the like.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
40. n.
Increase of sound; a swelling of the voice.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
41. n.
Elevation or ascent of the voice; upward change of key; as, a rise of a tone or semitone.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
42. n.
The spring of a fish to seize food (as a fly) near the surface of the water.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
43. v.
(-sing; past rose; past part. Risen) 1 come or go up. 2 grow, project, expand, or incline upwards; become higher. 3 appear or be visible above the horizon. 4 get up from lying, sitting, kneeling, or from bed; become erect. 5 (of a meeting etc.) Adjourn. 6 reach a higher position, level, amount, intensity, etc. 7 make progress socially etc. (rose from the ranks). 8 a come to the surface of liquid. B (of a person) react to provocation (rise to the bait). 9 come to life again. 10 (of dough) swell by the action of yeast etc. 11 (often foll. By up) rebel (rise up against them). 12 originate (river rises in the mountains). 13 (of wind) start to blow. 14 (of a person''s spirits) become cheerful. n. 1 rising. 2 upward slope, hill, or movement (house stood on a rise). 3 a increase in amount, extent, sound, pitch, etc. (rise in unemployment). B increase in salary. 4 increase in status or power; upward progress. 5 movement of fish to the surface. 6 origin. 7 a vertical height of a step, arch, incline, etc. B = *riser 2. get (or take) a rise out of colloq. Provoke a reaction from (a person), esp. By teasing. On the rise on the increase. Rise above be superior to (petty feelings, difficulties, etc.). Rise to develop powers equal to (an occasion). [old english]
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884
44. slang
“to take a RISE out of a person.” A metaphor from fly-fishing, the silly fish RISING to be caught by an artificial fly; to mortify, outwit, or cheat him, by superior cunning. “There is only one thing, unfortunately, of which Oxford men are economical, and that is, their University experience. They not only think it fair that Freshmen should go through their ordeal unaided, but many have a sweet satisfaction in their distresses, and even busy themselves in obtaining elevations, or, as it is vulgarly termed, in ‘getting RISES out of them.’”—_Hints to Freshmen_, Oxford, 1843.
Source: The Slang Dictionary, 1864

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