Dictionary Definition
rise
Noun
1 a growth in strength or number or importance
[ant: fall]
3 an upward slope or grade (as in a road); "the
car couldn't make it up the rise" [syn: ascent, acclivity, raise, climb, upgrade] [ant: descent]
4 a movement upward; "they cheered the rise of
the hot-air balloon" [syn: rising, ascent, ascension] [ant: fall]
5 the amount a salary is increased; "he got a 3%
raise"; "he got a wage hike" [syn: raise, wage hike,
hike, wage
increase, salary
increase]
6 the property possessed by a slope or surface
that rises [syn: upgrade, rising
slope]
7 a wave that lifts the surface of the water or
ground [syn: lift]
8 (theology) the origination of the Holy Spirit
at Pentecost; "the emanation of the Holy Spirit"; "the rising of
the Holy Ghost"; "the doctrine of the procession of the Holy Spirit
from the Father and the Son" [syn: emanation, procession]
10 increase in price or value; "the news caused a
general advance on the stock market" [syn: advance]
Verb
1 move upward; "The fog lifted"; "The smoke arose
from the forest fire"; "The mist uprose from the meadows" [syn:
lift, arise, move up, go up, come up, uprise] [ant: descend]
2 increase in value or to a higher point; "prices
climbed steeply"; "the value of our house rose sharply last year"
[syn: go
up, climb]
3 rise to one's feet; "The audience got up and
applauded" [syn: arise,
uprise, get up, stand up] [ant:
sit
down, lie down]
6 become more extreme; "The tension heightened"
[syn: heighten]
7 come into existence; take on form or shape; "A
new religious movement originated in that country"; "a love that
sprang up from friendship"; "the idea for the book grew out of a
short story"; "An interesting phenomenon uprose" [syn: originate, arise, develop, uprise, spring up,
grow]
8 be promoted, move to a better position [syn:
move
up]
9 go up or advance; "Sales were climbing after
prices were lowered" [syn: wax, mount, climb] [ant: wane]
10 get up and out of bed; "I get up at 7 A.M.
every day"; "They rose early"; "He uprose at night" [syn: get up, turn out,
arise, uprise] [ant: go to bed,
go to
bed]
12 increase in volume; "the dough rose slowly in
the warm room" [syn: prove]
13 become heartened or elated; "Her spirits rose
when she heard the good news"
14 exert oneself to meet a challenge; "rise to a
challenge"; "rise to the occasion"
16 come up, of celestial bodies; "The sun also
rises"; "The sun uprising sees the dusk night fled..."; "Jupiter
ascends" [syn: come up, uprise, ascend] [ant: set]
17 return from the dead; "Christ is risen!"; "The
dead are to uprise" [syn: resurrect, uprise] [also: rose, risen]
User Contributed Dictionary
see raise
English
Pronunciation
- , /raɪz/, /raIz/
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- Rhymes with: -aɪz
Etymology
rīsanNoun
Translations
action of moving upwards
- Finnish: nousu, nouseminen, kohoaminen
- Japanese: 上昇
- Kurdish: ههڵسان
- Russian: подъём
increase (in a quantity, price, etc)
- Japanese: 上昇
- Kurdish: بهرز بوون
- Russian: рост, возрастание, подъём
pay rise
See pay
rise
- ttbc German: Anstieg (1,2), Sonnenaufgang (3), Gehaltserhöhung (4)
- ttbc Spanish: alza
See also
Verb
Synonyms
- sense move upwards climb, go up
- sense be resurrected be resurrected, come back from the dead
- climb, increase, go up
Antonyms
Coordinate terms
Translations
To move upwards
- Czech: stoupat
- Finnish: nousta, kohota, kohottautua
- French: monter
- Irish: éirigh
- Italian: salire
- Japanese: あがる, 上昇
- Lithuanian: kilti
- Russian: подниматься , подняться
of a celestial body: to appear to move from
behind the horizon
to be resurrected
- Finnish: nousta
- Japanese: 復活
- Russian: воскресать (voskr'esát') , воскреснуть (voskr'ésnut') ; восставать (vosstavát') , восстать (vosstát')
of a quantity, etc: to increase
- Finnish: sense of a quantity kasvaa, sense of prices nousta
- Japanese: あがる
- Russian: расти (rastí) , вырасти (výrasti) ; возрастать (vozrastát') , возрасти (vozrastí) ; подниматься (podnimát’s’a) , подняться (podn'át's'a)
- ttbc Arabic:
- ttbc Chinese: 上升 (shàngshēng)
- ttbc Dutch: rijzen, stijgen, opstijgen
- ttbc Esperanto: supreniri, malsubiri, leviĝi
- ttbc German: steigen, erheben, aufsteigen
- ttbc Hungarian: emelked, felemelked, felkel
- ttbc Indonesian: naik, terbit, bangkit
- ttbc Italian: alzarsi, sollevarsi
- ttbc Korean: 오르다 (oreuda)
- ttbc Latin: surgo
- ttbc Malayalam: ഉയരുക (uyaruka), ഉദിയ്ക്കുക (udiykkuka)
- ttbc Portuguese: subir
- ttbc Scottish Gaelic: èirich
- ttbc Spanish: subir
- ttbc Swedish: stiga upp
See also
Italian
Verb
Norwegian
Verb
- to spank
Extensive Definition
Rise or RISE may refer to:
In music:
- Rise (The Answer album), the debut album by Northern Irish rock band The Answer
- Rise (Anew Revolution Album), an album by Anew Revolution
- Rise (Anoushka Shankar album), an album by Anoushka Shankar
- Rise (Bad Brains album), the fifth full-length studio album from Bad Brains
- Rise (Building 429 album), full-length studio album by Christian rock band Building 429
- Rise (EP), an EP by Army of Me
- Rise
(Gabrielle album), an album by British Pop artist Gabrielle
- Rise (Gabrielle song, an single of this album
- Rise (Herb Alpert album), an album containing the eponymous hit song written by Andy Armer and Randy Badazz and recorded by trumpeter Herb Alpert
- Rise (in2a0), debut single from 80's group Into A Circle
- Rise (Joy Tobing album), an album by Indonesian singer Joy Destiny Tobing
- Rise (SPEED album), an album by SPEED
- A 1982 EP by Boyd Rice under the name NON
- The second track on Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex O.S.T. 2
- The sixth track on Vulgar Display of Power, a 1992 album by Pantera
- Rise (Public Image Ltd. song), a 1986 song by Public Image Ltd
- A type of melodic motion
- Rise Records, a record label
In media:
- , a breakfast television show in the UK
- Rise: Blood Hunter, a 2007 horror/thriller film directed by Sebastian Gutierrez
- Rise (Voyager episode), the nineteenth episode of the third season of Star Trek: Voyager
- Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer, often abbreviated as "rise" in promotional material
- RISE Magazine, a high school sports magazine owned by ESPN
In technology:
- RISE-PAK, Relief and Information Systems for Earthquakes Pakistan, an information-sharing web portal developed and maintained by a consortium of experts from American and Pakistani universities
- Rise Technology, a short lived microprocessor manufacturer
- Mitsubishi RISE, Mitsubishi Motors' patented safety body construction system
Rise may also refer to:
- Rise, East Riding of Yorkshire, a village and civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire
- Rise: London United, an annual anti-racism music festival held in London
- Rise: The Vieneo Province, an Internet-based virtual world
- The step stage of bread making also called proofing
rise in Dutch: Rise
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
Great Leap Forward, Olympian heights, abruptness, access, accession, acclivity, accomplishment, accretion, accrual, accrue, accrue from, accruement, accumulate, accumulation, achieve
success, acme, action and
reaction, activate,
addition, advance, advancement, aerial heights,
aggrandizement,
agitate, amelioration, amendment, amplification, anabasis, answer, apex, apparition, appear, appearance, appearing, appreciate, appreciation, arise, arise from, arising, arrive, ascend, ascension, ascent, augmentation, automatic
reaction, autonomic reaction, avatar, awake, awake the dead, awaken, back, back up, balloon, ballooning, bank, be a success, be begotten, be
born, be contingent on, be due to, be equal to, be incarnated, be
poised, become, become
manifest, become visible, begin, beginning, bettering, betterment, billow, blast, blast the ear, bloat, bloating, blossoming, boom, boost, bore, bounceback, break, break out, break through,
breakers, breakthrough, breed, bring about, bring into
being, bring out, bristle, broaden, broadening, bud from,
budge, buildup, buoy up, burst forth,
buss the clouds, cant,
careen, cast up, cause, change, change place, chop, choppiness, chopping sea,
circle, clamber, climb, climbing, cock up, comb, comber, come, come alive, come forth, come
forward, come from, come in sight, come into being, come into
existence, come on, come out, come out of, come through, come to,
come to be, come to hand, come to life, come to light, come up,
coming, coming into
being, coming-forth, commence, commencement, conception, crash, crescendo, crop out, crop up,
curl upwards, cut a swath, dash, deafen, decline, depend on, derivation, derive from,
descend, descend from,
develop, development, developmental
change, din, dip, dirty water, disclosure, dizzy heights,
drop, eagre, ebb, ebb and flow, echo, edema, elaboration, elevate, elevation, emanate from,
emerge, emerge from,
emergence, eminence, encourage, engender, enhancement, enlargement, ennoblement, enrichment, ensue from,
enter, epiphany, erect, erupt, escalade, escalate, ether, eugenics, euthenics, evolution, evolutionary
change, evolvement,
evolving, exaltation, expansion, explication, exposure, extension, fade in, fall, fall away, fall off, fill the
air, flight, float, flood, flow, flow from, flowering, fly, follow from, foment, forthcoming, fountain, furtherance, gain, gain strength, generate, genesis, germinate from, get
ahead, get on, get over, get there, get to be, get up, give rise
to, go, go around, go
downhill, go far, go places, go round, go sideways, go up, go
uphill, goad, grade, gradient, gradual change,
graduation, grass
roots, gravity wave, greatening, greet the day,
ground swell, grow, grow
from, grow out of, grow up, growth, gush, gyrate, gyring up, hang on,
happen, have it made,
have origin, head, headway, heave, heave in sight, heaven, heavens, heavy sea, heavy swell,
heft, height, heighten, heights, heist, highland, hike, hill, hillock, hinge on, hit the deck,
hoick, hoist, hold up, impassion, improvement, incarnation, inception, incite, incline, increase, increment, inflame, inflation, instigate, insurge, insurrect, intensify, irrupt, issuance, issue, issue forth, issue from,
jerk up, jet, jump, jump up, keel, knighting, knock up, knoll, lean, leap, levitate, levitation, lift, lift up, list, live again, lob, loft, look forth, loom, lop, make a breakthrough, make a
success, make good, make headway, make it, make the grade, make the
scene, manifestation, materialization,
materialize,
materializing,
maturation, meet, melioration, mend, mending, motivate, mount, mount the barricades,
mounting, move, move over, multiplication, multiply, mutineer, mutiny, natural development,
natural growth, nonviolent change, occur, occurrence, opening, origin, original, originate, originate in,
origination,
outcrop, overthrow, passing, pay raise, peak, peal, peep out, perk up, pickup, pile out, pitch, plunge, popple, precipitousness,
predictable response, preferment, presentation, press, proceed from, produce, productiveness, progress, progression, proliferate, proliferation, prominence, promotion, prosper, provenience, provoke, push, quicken, radical, radix, raise, raise up, rake, ramp, rattle the windows, reaction, realization, reanimate, rear, rear up, rebel, recovery, reflection, reflex, reflex action, refluence, reflux, regress, reluct, reluctate, rend the air, rend
the ears, reply, resound, respond to, respondence, response, restoration, resurge, resuscitate, retreat, retroaction, retrogress, return, return to life, revelation, reverberation, revival, revive, revolt, revolute, revolution, revolutionize, revulsion, riffle, ring, riot, ripening, ripple, rise again, rise and
fall, rise up, rising,
rising ground, rock the sky, rocketing up, roll, roll out, roller, root, rotate, rough water, run, run riot, run up, saltation, scend, sea, see the light, send, set up, shake up, shelve, shift, shoot up, shooting up,
show, show up, showing, showing forth, sidle, sink, sit bolt upright, sit up,
sky, slant, slope, smash, snowball, snowballing, soar, soaring, source, spin, spiral, spire, split the eardrums, split
the ears, spout, spread, spring, spring from, spring up,
sprout from, spurt, stand
on tiptoe, stand up, start, startle the echoes,
steep, steepness, stem, stem from, stick up, stimulate, stir, stir up, stock, straighten up, stratosphere, stream, stream forth, strengthen, strike, strike the eye, stun, subside, subvert, succeed, succumb to, surf, surge, swag, swallow, swarm up, sway, sweep up, swell, swelling, take, take birth, take flight, take
off, take place, take rise, take wing, take-off, takeoff, taking off, taproot, theophany, thrive, throw up, thunder, tidal bore, tidal wave,
tide wave, tilt, tip, toss, tower, travel, trough, tsunami, tumescence, turn on, turn
out, turn up, undulate,
undulation, unfolding, unfoldment, unthinking
response, up, upbeat, upbuoy, upcast, upclimb, upcoming, updraft, upgang, upgo, upgoing, upgrade, upgrading, upgrow, upgrowth, upheave, uphill, uphoist, uphold, upland, upleap, uplift, upping, upraise, uprear, uprisal, uprise, uprising, uprush, upshoot, upslope, upspin, upspring, upstream, upsurge, upsurgence, upswarm, upsweep, upswing, upthrow, uptrend, upturn, upward mobility, upwind, vantage ground, vantage
point, vault, vertical
height, verticalness, wake up,
waken, wane, water wave, wave, wavelet, wax, waxing, whirl, white horses, whitecaps, widen, widening, zenith, zooming